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VOLUNTEER JOB IN ECUADOR - AMAZON
Yacuma Ecolodge Rainforest Volunteer Program
Amazon Jungle - Ecuador
Amazon Jungle - Ecuador
Green, mysterious, and unexplored - it was a conquistador’s dream for Gonzalo Pizzaro and Francisco de Orellana, who followed the rivers down from the high Andes in 1538, searching for El Dorado, the lost city of gold ….
The Yacuma Ecolodge Rainforest Volunteer Program is based upon the idea that the essence of volunteering is to give and receive. The Volunteer Program will enable you to make a significant difference in someone life by giving your valuable time and effort. At the same time you will improve yourself both personally and professionally. You will improve personally by living and working in another country and culture. You will improve professionally by learning another language and by developing valuable skills that you will find invaluable in your further career. Working as a volunteer will give you many new experiences and allow you to learn more about yourself. Your volunteer experiences will give you memories that you will never forget; experiences that will shape your life further on.
Why volunteer?
Volunteer work is a way for you to do incredible things in another country and another culture. You will get the opportunity to learn Spanish, get valuable skills and experience and demonstrate solidarity towards an Amazon community that need your help.
It’s a reciprocal process that benefits both you and your workplace. By such an interchange, you will take part in improving the world by making friendships across boarders and by emphasizing values such as tolerance and peace.
Volunteer Guide
The staff, who works at Yacuma Ecolodge, has worked as volunteers in Ecuador themselves. They have extensive experience in welcoming foreigners to Ecuador and speak fluent English and Spanish. Due to our experience we always offer the best for our volunteers.
- What you will receive
- Who can volunteer?
- How long do I need to volunteer?
- What’s it like to volunteer?
- Language
- How do I become a volunteer?
- Documents necessary for the application
- What will happen when I come to Ecuador?
What you will receive
The Yacuma Rainforest Volunteer Program will be your best choice if you are interested in receiving the following:
The Yacuma Rainforest Volunteer Program will be your best choice if you are interested in receiving the following:
- Realistic guidance and useful information to prepare you for your stay.
- Accommodation in the bungalows with private bathroom
- All meals at the Lodge
- Admission to the Indian community
- Excursions, Canoeing and activities in the Amazon rainforest
- Admission to the Indian community
- Excursions and activities in the Amazon rainforest
- A personal advisor who will follow work progress throughout the entire process.
- To learn and share experiences with a real Amazon community, when you be in our Ecolodge in the rainforest.
- To get different skill and knowledge in our ecolodge such as: cooking, guide in the amazon, animals care, management the lodge, and more.
- A healthy, friendly and amazing environment in the real Rainforest
- A professional workplace that will receive you in the best manner.
- Someone who will greet you at the airport.
- A place to live that makes you feel at home, (family, hotel or at the workplace).
- Opportunity to learn Spanish in your workplace.
- Free internet access in Quito
Who can volunteer?
Anyone 18 years or older! To participate in the Yacuma Volunteer Program you don’t need to have an education or any organizational experience, that’s what makes us different from many other voluntary programs. Previous experience is perfectly o.k. of course.
Anyone 18 years or older! To participate in the Yacuma Volunteer Program you don’t need to have an education or any organizational experience, that’s what makes us different from many other voluntary programs. Previous experience is perfectly o.k. of course.
How long do I need to volunteer?
You decide how long and when you would like to begin your volunteer program. However, our project in the Amazon requires a commitment of 1 month duration. Please see more detailed information about our Ecolodge. http://www.ecuadoramazonjunglelodge.com
You decide how long and when you would like to begin your volunteer program. However, our project in the Amazon requires a commitment of 1 month duration. Please see more detailed information about our Ecolodge. http://www.ecuadoramazonjunglelodge.com
What’s it like to volunteer?
The sensation you get when you volunteer is that you give and receive. Your work will make a significant difference while, at the same time, you will learn a lot from your colleagues and your work experience. Our ecolodge is an organization with a high level of experience and project to help an Amazon Community, but unfortunately with low economic resources. That’s why they need help from volunteers and they will repay you with a wealth of new knowledge and friendship. Depending on where you will work the experience can also be very difficult. Some volunteers may see a lot that they are not used to. However, we can promise you that you will also find a lot of smiling faces and happiness. It is important to remember that poorness it’s not the same as unhappiness!
The sensation you get when you volunteer is that you give and receive. Your work will make a significant difference while, at the same time, you will learn a lot from your colleagues and your work experience. Our ecolodge is an organization with a high level of experience and project to help an Amazon Community, but unfortunately with low economic resources. That’s why they need help from volunteers and they will repay you with a wealth of new knowledge and friendship. Depending on where you will work the experience can also be very difficult. Some volunteers may see a lot that they are not used to. However, we can promise you that you will also find a lot of smiling faces and happiness. It is important to remember that poorness it’s not the same as unhappiness!
Language.
The overwhelming majority of Ecuadorians speak only Spanish, but that it won’t be a problem because our staffs in the lodge speak English quite well.
The overwhelming majority of Ecuadorians speak only Spanish, but that it won’t be a problem because our staffs in the lodge speak English quite well.
How do I become a volunteer?
If you want to participate in the Yacuma Volunteer Program please sent us an email with all your information. After we have decided to volunteer with you, you need to pay the registration fee in order for us to treat your application; we will send you information about how to do this. When we receive the registration fee, we will immediately begin to process your application in order to fulfil your needs. As soon as we have a suggestion for you we will send it to you. (Within a week maximum) If you are not pleased with our suggestion we will give you a new offer until you are satisfied.
If you want to participate in the Yacuma Volunteer Program please sent us an email with all your information. After we have decided to volunteer with you, you need to pay the registration fee in order for us to treat your application; we will send you information about how to do this. When we receive the registration fee, we will immediately begin to process your application in order to fulfil your needs. As soon as we have a suggestion for you we will send it to you. (Within a week maximum) If you are not pleased with our suggestion we will give you a new offer until you are satisfied.
- Payment of registration fee
- Visa, if you are going to stay more than 3 month
- Confirmation that you have a round - trip ticket
When you arrive in Quito we need:
- Copy of passport.
- Two photographs
- Copy of degree / CV
- Payment of participation fee
- Copy of insurance documents
- Police record
Documents necessary when applying here in Quito:
- Copy of passport.
- Two photographs
- Copy of degree / CV
- Payment of participation fee
- Copy of insurance documents
- Police record
What will happen when I come to Ecuador?
When you arrive to Ecuador you will be met at the airport of a representative of the Yacuma Rainforest Volunteer Program. If you arrive during the day our representative will bring you by car to the Yacuma Office. There, your personal advisor from the Volunteer Program will meet you. If you arrive by night you will be taken to the place where you are going to live and you will meet your advisor the following day. (If possible, your advisor will pick you up at the airport). Your advisor will give you all the information you need and you will be able to ask questions.
Your advisor will introduce you to your workplace, your colleagues and your contact person at your work, as you need to stay at least 2 weeks first in Quito to help with some administrative work such as translations web marketing, etc, Then your advisor will take you to the Ecolodge in the Amazon Rainforest to continuous with your volunteer program in the jungle.
When you arrive to Ecuador you will be met at the airport of a representative of the Yacuma Rainforest Volunteer Program. If you arrive during the day our representative will bring you by car to the Yacuma Office. There, your personal advisor from the Volunteer Program will meet you. If you arrive by night you will be taken to the place where you are going to live and you will meet your advisor the following day. (If possible, your advisor will pick you up at the airport). Your advisor will give you all the information you need and you will be able to ask questions.
Your advisor will introduce you to your workplace, your colleagues and your contact person at your work, as you need to stay at least 2 weeks first in Quito to help with some administrative work such as translations web marketing, etc, Then your advisor will take you to the Ecolodge in the Amazon Rainforest to continuous with your volunteer program in the jungle.
During your working period your advisor will visit you at work and will periodically check in on you progress through the duration of your project. When you have finished your working period, your advisor will talk with you and your contact person at your work in order to give you a certificate for your voluntary period. If, during your stay, would like to visit other parts of Ecuador, we will be able to help you out with this as well.
About the Amazon Jungle
Welcome to the Amazon Rainforest, the world's largest remaining tropical rainforest. More life hums, buzzes, chatters and bubbles here than anywhere else on the planet. One Amazonian tree can host more ant species than all of the British Isles put together, one hectare of forest boasts about as many frog species as all of North America, and the great expanse of the jungle contains more than twenty percent of the earth's vascular plant species. Here you can find a monkey small enough to sit on your fingertip, an eight-pound toad, a spider that eats birds, and the world's largest snake: the 30-foot anaconda.
The Amazon and its tributaries begin on the eastern side of the Andes Mountain Range, and drain snow and rain from half a continent into the distant Atlantic Ocean. Today, despite deforestation pressures and other human influences, the Amazon River Basin still contains approximately 6.7 million km2 of rainforest, an area almost 2/3 the size of the United States (including Alaska!). The Amazon Basin is a vast natural tropical area, more than half of which is located within the borders of Brazil.
The Amazon Rain Forest has all the typical attributes of a tropical environment. The weather is hot, humid and rainy, with an average rainfall of over 200 cm (80 inches) per year. These rainforests contain a huge variety of diverse biomes, many of which contain unique species not found anywhere else on the globe. This vast region is home to about 2.5 million insect species, tens of thousands of plants, some 2,000 kinds of birds and mammals, and many different species of amphibians and reptiles. Among the most commonly know animals are such different species as jaguar, anaconda, howler monkey, macaws, toucans, tarantulas and river dolphins. One-in-ten of all plant and animal species in the world inhabit the Amazon Rainforest. One-in-five of all the birds in the world live in the rainforests of the Amazon. The diversity of plant species is the highest on Earth; some experts estimate that one square kilometer (1 km2 ) of rainforest may contain over 75,000 types of trees and 150,000 species of higher plants. One square kilometer of Amazon rainforest can contain an incredible bio-mass of more than 90,000 tons of living plants!
Moreover, forty percent of all of all the earth's fresh water flows through the Amazon basin; more water than in the basins of the next six biggest rivers combined! In the Amazon river there are islands as big as Switzerland, otters bigger than men, and at certain points along it you can be in the middle and see neither shore.
The Amazon Rain Forest has all the typical attributes of a tropical environment. The weather is hot, humid and rainy, with an average rainfall of over 200 cm (80 inches) per year. These rainforests contain a huge variety of diverse biomes, many of which contain unique species not found anywhere else on the globe. This vast region is home to about 2.5 million insect species, tens of thousands of plants, some 2,000 kinds of birds and mammals, and many different species of amphibians and reptiles. Among the most commonly know animals are such different species as jaguar, anaconda, howler monkey, macaws, toucans, tarantulas and river dolphins. One-in-ten of all plant and animal species in the world inhabit the Amazon Rainforest. One-in-five of all the birds in the world live in the rainforests of the Amazon. The diversity of plant species is the highest on Earth; some experts estimate that one square kilometer (1 km2 ) of rainforest may contain over 75,000 types of trees and 150,000 species of higher plants. One square kilometer of Amazon rainforest can contain an incredible bio-mass of more than 90,000 tons of living plants!
Moreover, forty percent of all of all the earth's fresh water flows through the Amazon basin; more water than in the basins of the next six biggest rivers combined! In the Amazon river there are islands as big as Switzerland, otters bigger than men, and at certain points along it you can be in the middle and see neither shore.
This rainforest is home to thousands of indigenous inhabitants, who make up nearly 200 distinct nations, including the Siona, Secoya, Cofan, Shuar, Zaparo, Huaorani, and Quichua. The indigenous tribes that live in Ecuador's rainforest are the ancient keepers and guardians of the world's biological heritage - having lived there for more than 10,000 years - they know its trees, its animals, and its rhythms better than anyone.
About our Ecolodge Yacuma
If you love the Amazon jungle and would like to have an unforgettable journey, you have come to the right place.
Our Ecolodge Yacuma, is a beautiful place created for those who love the Amazon Jungle, is a joint ecotourism initiative of the rainforest community of Chontayacu and Ecuahotel.
Yacuma eco lodge is located at two hours from the city of Tena, in a protected forest reserve that has the same name Yacuma (300 acres), where we do the activities such as observe the flora and fauna of our Amazon rainforest, it emphasize that the only way to enter the lodge is via canoe navigation for about 35 minutes from where we left the carriage, Our Ecolodge has capacity for 56 people in beds, single or double rooms distributed in 24 in 12 cabins.
Each room has private bath and electric power is managed through solar panels, these methods of sustainability, quality of service, plus the Quichua community support which is located in front of our lodge is what has allowed us to obtain awards recognition as Land of Light in July 2010 and certifications with the Rainforest Allience and Smart Voyager. We have a superior tourist category
Each room has private bath and electric power is managed through solar panels, these methods of sustainability, quality of service, plus the Quichua community support which is located in front of our lodge is what has allowed us to obtain awards recognition as Land of Light in July 2010 and certifications with the Rainforest Allience and Smart Voyager. We have a superior tourist category
Visa
All travellers must have a passport valid for at least six months before arriving in Ecuador. They must also have a return ticket to their country of origin or to another destination. To enter the country, visitors must fill in an international embarkation –disembarkation form. It is important to keep it with your passport. Travellers should have their passports with them during their stay in Ecuador to avoid problems with the authorities who may want to see it. Those who wish to stay in the country longer than 90 days have to fill out the corresponding paperwork in an Ecuadorian Consulate. If the traveller enters Ecuador as a tourist it is not possible to change visa status while they are in the country. (The Ministry of Information and Tourism)
All travellers must have a passport valid for at least six months before arriving in Ecuador. They must also have a return ticket to their country of origin or to another destination. To enter the country, visitors must fill in an international embarkation –disembarkation form. It is important to keep it with your passport. Travellers should have their passports with them during their stay in Ecuador to avoid problems with the authorities who may want to see it. Those who wish to stay in the country longer than 90 days have to fill out the corresponding paperwork in an Ecuadorian Consulate. If the traveller enters Ecuador as a tourist it is not possible to change visa status while they are in the country. (The Ministry of Information and Tourism)
Insurance
It is a good idea to have travel insurance while your stay in Ecuador. There are many very good hospitals in Ecuador but they are normally private and therefore cost a lot. Contact your travel agency for more advice of which insurance fits best for you.
It is a good idea to have travel insurance while your stay in Ecuador. There are many very good hospitals in Ecuador but they are normally private and therefore cost a lot. Contact your travel agency for more advice of which insurance fits best for you.
Vaccination
Before coming to Ecuador, check with your doctor to determine which vaccines you need. We recommend the following vaccines:
- Typhoid fever: Must be taken 2 weeks before arrival. Lasts three years
- Hepatitt A: Must be taken 1 month before arrival. Lasts 1-2 years. If you refill the vaccine after 1-11/2 years it lasts 20 years
- Yellow fever: Must be taken 7-10 days before arrival. Lasts 10 years Yellow Fever is a very rare cause of illness for travelers, but, if you plan on spending time in the rainforest or coastal lowlands, you should get immunized. Like Malaria, Yellow Fever is a disease transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. Likewise, you should follow the same precautions as with Malaria. Employ insect repellent, protective clothing, and mosquito netting to minimize the risk of bites from infected mosquitoes. (The Ministry of Information and Tourism)
- Tetanus: Must be taken 2 weeks before arrival. Lasts 10 years
- Malaria: If you are going to the jungle or the coast you also need antimalarial drugs On account of Ecuador's diverse geography, there is risk for Malaria in some parts of the country and not in others. Mosquitoes, the primary carriers of malaria, do not like heights. As a result, travelers run little risk of getting Malaria while in the mountains and mountain valleys of Ecuador's High Sierra Region. On the other hand, because mosquitoes thrive in the Ecuador's hot and humid Coastal region and the Amazon jungle lowlands, you must take the appropriate precautions while travelling in these regions. Travelers can eliminate much of the Malarial risk by taking prescription antimalarial drugs and protecting themselves against mosquito bites. You can protect yourself from mosquito bites by using insect repellent (the repellent must contain DEET), always wearing long-sleeved shirts and long pants, and sleeping beneath mosquito nets. (The Ministry of Information and Tourism)
Why pay for volunteering?
For many it may seem strange to have to pay in order to work for free. However, it is necessary to charge a small amount in order to defray costs of the workplaces and the families where the volunteers live. We are aware of the fact that many volunteers do not have a lot of money and we therefore always work to offer you the minimum price.
The work of the Yacuma Rainforest Volunteer Program is non-profit and we therefore only charge for administrative costs.
Your expenses
Registration fee 2012: $25
Includes:
Includes:
- Documents that might you need for your Visa
- General Information
- A personal adviser
- Information about the volunteer program
Participation fee 2012: $150 monthly
Includes:
Includes:
- A personal advisor who will follow work progress throughout the entire process
- Information to prepare you for your stay including a 2-hour orientation in the city
- A professional workplace that’s perfect for you.
- One free pick-up at the airport
- Accommodation in the bungalows with private bathroom
- All meals at the Lodge
- Admission to the Indian community
- Excursions, Canoeing and activities in the Amazon rainforest
- Admission to the Indian community
- Excursions and activities in the Amazon rainforest
- The possibility to participate in many fun social events. (Depending on the event some may have extra charges).
- A coordinator that accompanies you to your workplace on the first visit.
- Free internet access in Quito
- A certificate at the end of your working period
Accommodation
- You will stay in Quito for up two week in a Family House and in the Amazon Rainforest in our Ecological Bungalows with a private bathroom for about 5 weeks if you take the 2 moths Volunteer Program
For payment it can be done in:
Through Pay Pal : account hugo@ecoandestravel.com
Through Pay Pal : account hugo@ecoandestravel.com
Or to our Account
Bank: Banco Pichincha :
Account Number: 3457134004
Name Holder: Yacumaecolodge S.A
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Yacuma the best Ecolodge place in Ecuador , South America
Yacuma Ecolodge is situated in the Yacuma protected amazon rainforest reserve along the great Napo River, which is a paradise with a high diversity of the fauna and flora of the Ecuador Amazon rainforest.
The most impressive way to enjoy the rainforest is to actually visit it.
The power, majesty, energy, and feeling of a primary rainforest are incredible and indescribable.
Learn about the enormous diversity of the flora and fauna and discover the Amazon Rainforest guided by native experts. Our experts can take you on jungle tours, bird watching excursions, and more.
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