Amaya, a volunteer who came for 10 months and has returned again this year.
Alejandro and Cristina, Zaragoza.
Kristina vino desde Noruega en 2004 por seis meses. Ha seguido en contacto con Amantaní y regresó el 2009.
How to help us: Volunteers
Amantaní began after two years of voluntary work in a Catholic association, which allowed us to understand the real situation in the Andes and to meet people committed to working in the area. And we began as a group of volunteers.
Currently, through volunteers, we seek:
• To serve as a platform so that volunteers may understand and involve themselves in the Andean situation.
• To improve the quality of our work and have access to more professional knowledge
Our conditions for accepting volunteers are:
• A minimum of six wesks of voluntary work: five days a week, with a timetable set by the volunteer but not less than six hours a day.
• A continuous period of work uninterrupted by absence for tourism.
- Ability to communicate without difficulties.
- To have more than 23 years.
We especially need health, education and psychology professionals. The work consists of improving the care we give to the children, assuming responsibilities according to qualifications.
Currently we are only able to provide meals for volunteers, not lodging. We can collect volunteers from the airport and offer advice for finding accommodation.
In spite of the great help which volunteers have brought us we have sometimes found that it has been limited by the necessity to adapt to a very different culture, by lack of experience, by the short length of stay for work which requires a certain preparation, by the possibility of contracting illness, and, often, by the attempt to combine voluntary work with the desire to know other parts of Peru through travel (to the detriment of the voluntary work). For these reasons we insist on a certain commitment, otherwise it is possible to hinder our work rather than improve it.
We hope to satisfy your motivations as well as ours.
European Year of Volunteering 2011