Terms vary between one summer and two years. Room and board are provided. This project offers students and non-students a variety of internship and volunteer work opportunities with indigenous communities in Guatemala. Lengths of stay and Spanish-speaking requirements vary. Cerro Golondrinas Development organization that offers training to local farmers to protect forested areas in Ecuador.
Volunteers engage in reforestation, construction, farm engineering and permiculture programs.
Fenix Language Institute One of Mexico's oldest and most respected Spanish language and Latin American Studies Institutes. Three different campuses offer volunteers a choice of urban and rural settings. Approximately 240 volunteers participate annually in a variety of activities ranging in nature from administrative to medical. Knowledge of the Spanish language is the only qualification. Volunteers assist in trail maintenance, gardening, reforestation, transplanting and fence construction.