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Description
I'm Julie, I run a New Orleans originated non-profit working at Lake Atitlan specifically the small towns around lake Atitlan. . It is our program that provides sterilization clinics here at the lake to cut down on the street dog population. Currently I am running one clinic a month. The volunteers here at the time of the clinic would help promote the clinics and be there the day of the clinic to lend a hand where needed. No animal medical experience is necessary as everyone will be trained to know how to work together for the clinic to ultimately run successfully.
As to the day to day here my volunteers walk the two street dogs I’ve rescued twice a day, tend to the plants, do some light shopping and light cleaning. Other small things do pop up but mostly it’s very simple to volunteer here.
I am very interested in bettering my Spanish speaking skills and would love having volunteers that could maybe work with me an hour a day or so.
While this is a housing opportunity and meals are not included, I do enjoy cooking and making meals for volunteers and on those days that I make meals, the volunteers usually assist with the clean up.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Gardening
Animal Care
House sitting
Interests
Sustainability
Pets
Charity work
Plant care
Cooking & food
Animals
Hiking
Outdoor activities
Nature
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
The lake offers amazing opportunities to experience the local culture. There's a large indigenous population here so it's an interesting place to experience modern Mayan life.
Help
Home, pet and garden care, language exchange
Languages
Languages spoken
English: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
It is very important to continue the sterilization clinics here in Guatemala that I learn Spanish. It would be lovely to have someone both proficient in English and Spanish that could spend an hour a day while volunteering here to help with that.
Accommodation
Full kitchen with a full size fridge, stove top and convection oven. Full size bed and sectional sofa, tv with streaming apps, full shower with hot water and two amazing young dogs, Lucy and Roux.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
I have a decent WiFi connection and have no problem streaming, so video-based work should be fine
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
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Her home is very comfortable, with a private bedroom and bathroom for volunteers — it truly feels like home. This is without a… read more
Her generosity was unparalleled - she regularly gave us donations of dog harnesses/leashes and even food crops to grow in the shelter!… read more
He recently helped me rescue a sick dog from the streets and transport her to my house, where we cared for her… read more
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Her home is very comfortable, with a private bedroom and bathroom for volunteers — it truly feels like home. This is without a… read more
Her generosity was unparalleled - she regularly gave us donations of dog harnesses/leashes and even food crops to grow in the shelter!… read more
He recently helped me rescue a sick dog from the streets and transport her to my house, where we cared for her… read more
