Volunteers
Serranía de las Quinchas
There is always so much to do and we welcome helping hands! We invite you to volunteer with us and help support our fledgling ecotourism project in Serrania de las Quinchas.
What you offer us
30 Hours per week
Help out and collaborate with us, working up to 6 hours each day, 5 days per week.
Trails
Help building new trails so our guests can see even more of our wildlife and explore more easily.
Teach English
Support with teaching English at our school in Betania and with our local community guides
Organic Garden
Help in one of our organic gardens to provide fresh vegetables for our guests
What we offer you
2 Days off per week
Time off for yourself relaxing, birding and exploring the forest or you can head to the nearby small town of Otanche.
Family Stay
Accommodation in one of our family home stays.
3 Meals per day
We can arrange vegetarians and other special dietary requirements
Support
You are our guest, and the Serrania de las Quinchas community team are here to help and support you at any point you need during your stay.
The experience
Ecotourism in a place like Serrania de las Quinchas is labour intensive. Our project is in its early stages and we need help in a number of areas like opening up new trails through the forest, reforestation projects and improving the accommodation provided so we can offer an even better service for our visitors. Sometimes volunteers will focus on a specific project, but often they carry out a variety of tasks depending on where the need is.
We request a minimum stay of 2 weeks for our volunteers. If you are only able to visit us for a few days but would like to volunteer, we would be very happy to organise a shorter volunteering program, but the daily cost will usually cost more.
We ask that our volunteers are people who are both willing to give and receive.
- You must be eager to learn about ecosystems that are in danger while being immersed in a new culture
- You must want to preserve this unique habitat of exceptional biodiversity
- You must be able to work individually or collaborate in groups and be happy to support community development.
Accommodation
We invite you to stay as our guest in one of our family homes, living alongside us and sharing our daily life for a truly authentic experience. Although accommodation during your stay with us will be very simple, what we lack in comfort and luxury we more than make up for with the warmth of our family environments. Twelve families in the villages of Nazareth, Altazor, Quinchas, Pizarra, Betania, Camilo and Cocos are able to offer home stays for guests. Host families can accommodate between 4 and 15 guests depending on the family. Bathrooms are shared.