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Description
We are the Sapara people from Ecuador. We are a native Indigenous community living in Jandayiacu. About 40 people are living in our community. We are located on the Jandayiacu and Conambo rivers, about 35 min flying from Shell (Puyo Airport). We are looking for volunteers that can teach english to our colegio students (about 13 students from 14 to 20 years old). The volunteer will receive a private room to sleep and will share all the meals with the host family. The volunteer will be fully integrated to the community, with the possibility to discover all its social life and activities such as fishing or hunting, walking through the jungle, canoing into the river to other communities or beaches, cooking natural food and creating ceramic, clothes or basketry, playing volleyball and football with the youth. From the community, there is an easy access to 2 cascadas and a river swiming beach.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Teaching
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
The volunteer will be fully integrated to the community, and as a part of the family will discover all the Sapara cultural life and richness (the dreams importance, the knowing of the jungle, its animals and plants, the face painting...). The volunteer will discover how the Saparas live in autonomy inside the forest following ancestral ways. Also how to cook only from natural products and how to make the different handicrafts (ceramics, basketworks...).
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We are looking for someone who speaks spanish and english and who is ready for being inside the community at least for 1 month. The classes are from 7h30 to 12h30 with a 1h break between 10h to 11h am, from Monday to Friday with no english lessons on Wednesday. The rest of the time is free. According to the will of the volunteer, different activities are possible to share with the family and the community.
Languages spoken
Spanish: Fluent
Accommodation
The volunteer will receive a private room to sleep and will share all the meals with the host family. The family is made of me : Jose (28years old), my wife Carmen (23 years old) and our 1 and half little daughter. My parents, sisters and brothers are living in the right next house. In the village there is a free access to drinking water and to an isolated place for bathing. Also 2 cascadas can be used for bathing.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
