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We are a language service center in Manizales and Santa Marta, Colombia. We teach several modern languages and provide certified translation and interpretation services all over Colombia. Volunteers will have a great time either in Manizales or Santa Marta. We can also take non-teaching volunteers to help with IT services, website flow, text editing, customer service, and/or maintaining our facilities in Santa Marta.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Our project's family is keen on creating a family setting for those involved with the company. So you will have plenty of time to interact with staff and students, make friends and get to know the city and places around your workplace.
Help
Conducting conversation classes in English mainly, helping with office work and promoting our services online and other similar tasks the volunteer is capable of and prepared to do well. We also receive volunteers for other non-teaching positions such as gardening, construction and maintenance facilities. Please let us know which of these activities you are volunteering for.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: FluentAccommodation
Room and board at or near your volunteering place.
What else ...
Volunteers must be native speakers of the language they intend to teach or have a C1 level in that language. Social skills are expected to ensure rapport with students and other staff members.
Our workaway volunteers stay at our own facilities in the city where they do their work.
Welcome to Colombia: Manizales, the heart of the Coffee region, and Santa Marta, the Pearl of the Caribbean; the perfect combination of the 2 most beautiful natural regions: green mountains with huge bamboo forests, waterfalls, streams and snow mountains and the amazing Caribbean sea of Santa Marta.A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Feedback (38)
She is talented as a teacher, editor, and test builder. The material she made and left in our English teaching platform is extremely helpful and… read more
I had hoped to teach at the Santa Marta site, but that ended up not being possible. Still, Carlos gave me translation and exam preparation tasks, and I was able to spend 3 months based at the outskirts of Santa… read more
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She is talented as a teacher, editor, and test builder. The material she made and left in our English teaching platform is extremely helpful and… read more
I had hoped to teach at the Santa Marta site, but that ended up not being possible. Still, Carlos gave me translation and exam preparation tasks, and I was able to spend 3 months based at the outskirts of Santa… read more
I spent three months in Manizales helping out at the Cambridge, initially I was only supposed to stay for one month but since I liked the life in Manizales so much I ended up staying for three months. During my stay I got to make a lot of local friends in Manizales as well as some good friends among the other… read more
Coming to participate in a project in a city implies taking buses and spending time going from home to work, which definitely, in this case 20 to 30 minutes, does not constitute a hurdle so unbearable to carry as he let the staff… read more
It was definitely good teaching experience, however after 2 weeks i… read more
The whole team was really nice and recives you with open arms. Whenever you need… read more
4,5 hrs / 5 days a week) were according to the agreement, and all of them I spent on giving classes to students of different age… read more
Overall, the volunteer experience was great and… read more
Both Carlos and Juan Carlos are kind and helpful, but most of… read more
The volunteers are lodged in a apartment a short 5 minute bus ride away from the office. The apartment is in a great… read more