Be the Change. Be a Global Volunteer in Ecuador.
Help provide services to children with limited resources.
Inspire and care for children in Ecuador so they can reach their full potential as healthy students. Working in partnership with resourceful community leaders since 1996, we enable you to contribute your skills towards the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. Assist hard-working teachers at two early-childhood development centers and a K-12 school in Calderón, a fast-growing, ethnically diverse and under-developed area of Quito. See Covid-19 requirements.
Get Started in Ecuador
Volunteer for good near the Equator!
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Exceptional volunteering for families, groups and seniors.
Early Childhood Education:
You offer the “extra” attention at-risk kids crave and deserve, while also mentoring them in social skills and hygiene and demonstrating effective hand washing with soap and water. Teach and encourage children one-on-one to stimulate young minds and bodies. The daily needs of the children are simple, and every day you show them you care, you improve their self-esteem and confidence.
Teaching and Tutoring:
Work one-on-one or in classrooms with children from kindergarten through secondary school on conversational English language skills. High school students in particular need help working towards certification in advanced intermediate skills (level B2). Local English teachers will guide you in lessons to encourage their interest and proficiency in English. During school breaks, provide conversational English instruction to the school’s English teachers with high proficiency and other classroom teachers who have varied English ability,
Repair and Maintenance:
Do you like to work with your hands? Help repair, paint and upgrade the inside and outside of the early childhood development centers, and help build play spaces, work on plumbing, carpentry and electrical projects as needed. If you can use a hammer, paintbrush, or trowel, you can work alongside Ecuadorian workers on projects that are so greatly needed for the children.
Your health, safety and security is our top priority. Your lodging, food and transportation are provided always with a mind to protect you while at the work site and in your hotel. Your team leader is trained in CPR and first aid. 
Ample time is available on evenings and weekends to enjoy the numerous nearby natural and cultural attractions. Most intriguing is Calderon’s home-grown Masapan sculptures, which you can watch being made, and buy in small shops around town. Families have been making dough art for generations as a holiday tradition. Now, figurines of all types are sold year-round.
Our Ecuador Program is a favorite for family volunteering. Caring for preschool children is an assignment that children can perform with their parents. “Ring around the Rosy,” Tales of Mother Goose, “The itsy-bitsy spider” and the memory game are just some of your tools as a daycare volunteer. Help the preschoolers learn English through games, art, stories and “whole body” activities. Help them learn to feed themselves, brush their teeth and wash their hands. Minor volunteers as young as 6 can inspire, guide and entertain pre-schoolers in many special ways. Families of many compositions – parents and children, grandparents and grandchild, and niece, nephew and aunt and uncle – are welcomed by appreciative teachers and caregivers. Working with your son, daughter or grandchild is an experience you’ll remember forever.
Global Volunteers’ Ecuador service-learning programs provide meaningful and stimulating volunteering opportunities for groups of professionals, educators and students. Directly providing at-risk Ecuadorian children educational, health, and nutritional assistance allows every member of your group to fully invest their unique skills. You learn about each other in a non-traditional way as an intact volunteer team, and know that your personal contributions help Ecuadorian children reach their full potential.
