Group Service Projects in Ecuador
ORGANIZATION: The Tandana Foundation
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The Tandana Foundation can offer your group a chance to make a difference in the lives of rural Ecuadorians while becoming part of the community you serve. Stay with host families or in a community building, eat local foods with your hosts, help villagers replace inadequate drinking water pipes or paint their community center, harvest corn and use its flour to bake bread, hike to sacred places while hearing legends about their importance, and play games with schoolchildren.
Whether you have a class, school group, club, set of friends who want to explore the world, healthcare professionals, teachers--any group that wants a new experience and a chance to make friends by helping out--we can coordinate a service project and a unique learning experience for you. Lodging options include homestays, a community center, a hostel, or a hotel. Project types include building some kind of small infrastructure for a community, working with children in schools, gardening and reforestation work, and health care. Often these can be combined. Contact us at info@tandanafoundation.org for more information.
More opportunities with The Tandana Foundation
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About The Tandana Foundation
Location:
2933 LOWER BELLBROOK RD, SPRING VALLEY, OH 45370, US
Mission Statement
To empower individuals of various cultural backgrounds with an increased awareness of the world, other cultures, and themselves, and with an expanded sense of their possibilities;
To promote positive, caring interactions between people of different backgrounds and encourage consideration and lessening of global inequalities;
To promote respect and responsibility toward one's self, all people, and the Earth.
Description
he Tandana Foundation is a non-profit organization that offers cross-cultural volunteer opportunities, scholarships, and support for small community projects in highland Ecuador and Mali's Dogon Country. Tandana coordinates service projects and volunteer vacations that offer visitors to Ecuador or Mali the unique opportunity to be guests rather than tourists, to form cross-cultural friendships, to experience a rich indigenous culture, and to make a difference in the lives of new friends. Its scholarship program allows rural Ecuadorian students to continue their secondary and higher education. Its community projects help villagers in Mali and Ecuador realize their dreams of improving their communities.
The Tandana Foundation is not about "helping the poor unfortunates" or imposing a developmentalist worldview or any particular religion. Rather, our goal is to create and nurture real and responsible relationships among people of different cultures. Giving and receiving are inherent parts of those relationships, and contributing to community projects is a great way to make friends. Any foreigner who has worked in an Ecuadorian minga (community work day) knows how that works on the ground! We come to learn and to share.
Tandana comes from a Kichwa root meaning "to gather together" or "to unite" and represents the spirit of our work.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
2933 Lower Bellbrook RdOtavalo, 45370Ecuador
DATE POSTED
March 15, 2021
SKILLS
- Cross-cultural Communication
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- varies. The group decides