Arajuno Road Project, Ecuador

Teaching Program

Based in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador the Arajuno Road Project offers volunteers the opportunity to work and teach in schools, providing a structured curriculum for the children, and long-term benefits to communities of the Arajuno Road.

With the help that volunteers give us, we can supply essential educational and sporting equipment, and give the children a more exciting learning experience, by using activities, art and music to teach.

Continuity is at the heart of our volunteer projects, offering a structure for both you and the communities you help. Currently, teachers are teaching children from 6 different grades in the same class. Volunteers allow the teacher to teach a smaller number of children focused lessons, whilst the volunteers teach all subjects focusing on English, art, sport and music. We believe that learning should be an interaction between the children, the subject and the teachers. Volunteers use games and activities to teach lessons and design structured lesson plans as part of a curriculum to ensure that their volunteer placement is as effective as possible, and so future volunteers can build on the work that has been done before them.

Community Development Program

Based in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador the Amazon Conservation and Community Development Project offers volunteers the opportunity to work with local communities with a variety of creative tasks and hands-on activities, helping to education jungle communities to live and prosper in harmony with their environment.

With the assistance of our volunteers, we can give local communities the tools and knowledge to allow them create successful business, protect and conserve the Amazon jungle and build and equip new facilities in local schools to give the students the means to learn and progress.

Continuity is at the heart of our volunteer projects, offering a structure for both you and the communities you help. Currently, local communities are using time consuming agricultural techniques which have a large negative impact on the environment. Volunteers help local community members have to make their businesses more productive, to give them a better chance in urban markets. We believe that community members should be in control of how their businesses operate. Volunteers assist with the marketing and selling of produce and products, from poster design, to making and running stalls, and finding locations for the community members to sell their products at a fair price. Our work is focused on the implementing of farming techniques that conserve the Amazon, and offer families opportunities which will reduce logging, allowing us to conserve and reforest. Our work in the schools gives teaches the facilities and equipment to provide a meaningful education.