Yanapuma receives many international volunteers throughout the course of each year. Our aim as a foundation is to provide good volunteering opportunities where you can really make a difference to the lives of people in marginalized communities.
One thing that you can do to make your volunteering even more effective is to raise funds before you arrive in Ecuador. We can advise on how these funds might be used in any particular project and will be more than happy to help develop materials that you can use to fundraise in your own country.
You can start with friends and family, but also consider your school, college, university or work as potential sources of funds. A relatively little can go a long way for a poor rural school, women’s agricultural cooperative, or other needy project.
We will also be happy to administer the funds to see that they are spent correctly.
Another option is to raise funds that will allow you to stay longer in the project of your choice. We will also be happy to advise you about cost of living in a community, and to see if we can arrange a better deal for you with the community in view of your length of stay. As these are poor communities, they generally cannot afford to feed another person, but are often willing to arrange something suitable for the service that they will receive from you.
Yanapuma only charges a one-time set-up fee to our volunteers that allows us to cover the costs involved in setting up a trustworthy and genuine project on your behalf.
Some examples of previous volunteers who have raised funds before:
- Paulien from Holland raised donations of over $2400 from friends and family when she spent 6 months teaching in a school in the Amazon
- Ryanne from Holland raised over $1600 in donations and spent 3 weeks working in a day care centre in Quito.
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