Volunteering for kids - Guatemala
Raising children who are international minded isn’t easy, especially in a culture that seems to reward materialism. But you can expose your child to volunteerism and encourage your kid to give back in a number of ways. By volunteering or by helping others, your child learns valuable life skills, but he or she also learns how important it is to support organizations he or she cares about and causes that interest him or her.
There are many ways your child can make a difference. Start with projects that he or she can incorporate into a kid’s busy schedule, and then add bigger projects that require more time. You might also want to consider volunteering together. That way you can spend quality time together and set a great example for your kid.
Amistad Guatemala Project have a few opportunities for kids volunteering and helping community projects to Guatemala. Your kid can help us to build a home, painting schools, cooking typical meals for Mayan children’s, others can to anime local school poor kid's, coffee farm, or helping Mayan communities. When considering volunteer work, think that your child is learning a lot about helping others and making a difference in Central America.
We offer living in a host family with native families. It’s a very humane and cultural experience because you will be living among the complete community. The adapting of the team is a key point in enjoying the visit. He will live a completely different live from the one back home and he will be enriched with new knowledge from a different country.
Available only for pre-constituted groups, from 10 years old students groups, high schools, all those who are committed to helping Guatemala's poverty. Go to more pictures and video
GOAL OF AMISTAD GUATEMALA PROJECTS:
• Offer an international experience of stimulating solidarity to your kids.
• Motivate and weld a group of young people around a common solidarity project.
• Create a non-academic environment conducive to language learning
• Form a group of young people from your school or youth center who will experience an international solidarity project.
• Develop an educational project as part of an active and committed citizenship process
• Give a taste to discover other cultures and ways of living and to acquire a new vision of the world.
• Set up twinning with other young people abroad.
• Open mindedness to the world
• Immersion with Guatemalan families, homestay
• Offer an international experience of stimulating solidarity to your kids.
• Motivate and weld a group of young people around a common solidarity project.
• Create a non-academic environment conducive to language learning
• Form a group of young people from your school or youth center who will experience an international solidarity project.
• Develop an educational project as part of an active and committed citizenship process
• Give a taste to discover other cultures and ways of living and to acquire a new vision of the world.
• Set up twinning with other young people abroad.
• Open mindedness to the world
• Immersion with Guatemalan families, homestay
Itinerary *From 7 to 15 days
- Friday: Arrive. Depart from home and join us in Guatemala! Amistad Project Guatemala will greet you when you arrive and take you to meet your team and your host family.
- Saturday and Sunday: Visite. With our guide, visitors explore the natural beauty of the highlands of Guatemala while enjoying immersion in the Mayan culture and meet Mayan villagers. Participants enjoy to discover traditions tour in Mayan villages. Additional customized trip options may include a Mayan village boat tours of Lake Atitlan, climbing Pacaya Volcano, visit a coffee plantation, horseback riding, a boat tour, beach, zip line adventures, or some visit museums, visit de best destinations of country and much more.
- Monday-Friday: Volunteering. have a few opportunities for kids volunteering and helping community projects to Guatemala. Your kid can help us to build a home, painting schools, cooking typical meals for Mayan children’s, others can to anime local school poor kid's, coffee farm, or helping Mayan communities. In afternoon we offer you a cultural excursion. Activities in the evenings.
- Saturday: Explore. The team will go sightseeing in and around Antigua.
- Sunday: Goodbyes. Continue to traveling in Guatemala or head on home.