Volunteer Projects in Argentina
This amazing country with its kind people and wide variety of stunning landscapes deserves a closer look from everyone interested in volunteering in Southern Latin America. When you think of Argentina: good meat, the tango and cosmopolitan Buenos Aires are what come to mind immediately. Due to its Spanish heritage and European migration, this country seems to be the linking chain between Latin America and Europe. But Argentina offers more than the at-first-sight European lifestyle appearance; it is still a typical South American country, rich of indigenous culture and with economic instability and social inequality. This eye opening experiencia will change your point of view on many aspects. This is definitely an experiencia that will change your life for the better! You can make a difference!
Available destinations: Buenos Aires; Cordoba
On this project you'll work at a local organization that carries out a rehabilitation program for the patients of a prestigious Psychiatric Hospital that use a strategy for helping the reinsertion of the people with mental disabilities.
Help at a community center where people that live in extreme poverty assist to get help to satisfy some of their basic needs: food and clothing. You will be helping with all sorts of tasks that keep this center working efficiently to protect children, teenagers, adults and elders of an impoverish neighborhood in Córdoba.
Work to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities by working with an organization that has been active in the field for more than 10 years. This organization from Cordoba is the perfect environment for your volunteer experience if you have an interest in the subject and if you are passionate about helping people with disabilities to lead a better life.
Work along a nonprofit civil association that has made its goal to improve the quality of life of young adults with disabilities that don't have the economic resources or the necessary support system to do it by themselves. Among your tasks will be of course spending time with them and offering workshops to develop work skills so they can reintegrate society in a healthy way.
Assist professionals from a clinic center for teenagers and young adults that suffer from mental deficiency, autism, psychosis or other neurotic disorders. They need your help on many tasks such as accompanying patients and preparing different recreational activities.
Be part of this amazing project that provides a home away from home for children with complex diseases and their families while in treatment. They create a near-to-the-hospital, clean and healthy environment for them to overcome their conditions. They also entertain the children and encourage their imagination by performing different activities at the game room.
Be part of a very exciting project that will allow you to witness the healing powers that the relationship between man and horse have on disabilities. You'll be working with people of all ages and with different kinds of disabilities such as sensory, motor, psychomotor, and mild to moderate intellectual disability.
If you love children this is the perfect project for you since you'll be investing your time and energy working with kids from 0 to 5 that need your love and attention. You can help also by preparing activities to develop the kids’ basic skills and by collaborating in the preparation of the food that's offered to the children.
Work with an organization that promotes equal opportunities to children from poor households, improves the quality of life for people with disabilities, makes society aware of the importance of inclusion and tries to avoid discrimination and marginalization generated by ignorance.
Assist a non-profit organization researching and collecting information so that they can continue doing good work for teenagers that need economical assistance for their education. They collect money from people and companies and distribute it among children that are in danger of dropping out of school for financial reasons. They look for godfathers and godmothers to sponsor the kids.
