Where to volunteer
We have volunteer positions available in 11 places of Peru. Volunteers have the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational and community aid programs. To participate will give volunteers a chance to make an important contribution to the people of Peru and while doing so gain an in depth experience of the country and its culture that will stay with them the rest of their life.

Program locations
Take your time to click on the following external links to get updated information on locations available to volunteer
Cusco
Lima
Huancayo
Arequipa
Puno
Trujillo
Sacred valley =(Cusco)
Chiclayo
Cajamarca
Iquitos
Pisco

Program starting dates
Contact Us if you want to start in a different date
info@awaitingangels.com

angelesqueaguardan@yahoo.com

During the following holidays programs are closed
New year, January 1 and 2
Holly Week
Labor day, May 1

Inti Raymi, June 22, 23, 24
Independence day, July 27, 28, 29
All Saints' day, November 1 and 2
Immaculate Conception day, December 8
Christmas, December 24, 25
 

2008 starting dates

2009 starting dates
 

Programs

We have volunteer positions in the following areas:

·Working in orphanages

.Elderly care
· Health program for students and graduated (Psychiatry, Psychology, ophthalmology, general medicine, doctor assistants)
· Teacher assistant (nursery school, elementary school)
· Street Children Help Program
· Children daycare
.Taking care of children with mental and physical disabilities
.ELT English teaching
.Farming communities
.Making bricks and tiles
.Earthquake Recovery Program (Construction)

.Conservation

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Working in orphanages
Many of the orphans have come from homes of domestic violence; many of them don't have relatives. Poverty now days leaves many children abandoned.
Orphanages in Peru provide orphans with daily meals, a bed and schooling, but they need people to give them attention, time and love.
Depending on your own skills and interests, volunteers are required to work at a range of orphanages and social service placements in Peru. The work will be very varied and creative - involving teaching, playing with the children, running many types of craft activities, administration, sports, teaching English, teaching what you know.

Elderly care

Volunteers will take care to elder people organizing activities and sports, reading books and news, making handicrafts and performing daily chores.  

Applicants need to have an intermediate Spanish level

Recommended minimum commitment 1 month

Health program for students and graduated (Psychiatry, Psychology, ophthalmology, general medicine, doctor assistants)
This program offers to volunteers an opportunity to gain experience in the medical field.
You can work in different areas and topics:
- Public Medical Centers
- Public Hospitals
- Health Campaigns
- Geriatric centers
- sexual health, personal hygiene, and family planning.

It's necessary to have an intermediate Spanish level in order to give local people as much help as possible.

Recommended minimum commitment 1 month

Teacher assistant (nursery school, elementary school)

Teacher assistants help teachers at public schools to develop the daily classes.

There are an average of 30 attendants per classroom

It's necessary to have an intermediate Spanish level in order to give local people as much help as possible.

Street Children Help Program
 Volunteers bring various educational activities to the streets and markets where children work. Volunteers prepare academic, artistic and social activities for street and working children. Volunteers (in groups of 2 to 4).

 This program aims to establish positive mentoring relationships with these neglected children, to encourage them to return to school and to assist them with immediate problems. Volunteers should be willing to get down and dirty working with children out of doors.
Volunteers wanting to work in this project must have confidence and at least an intermediate level of Spanish in order to give the children as much help as possible.

Recommended minimum commitment 3 weeks

Children daycare
Nothing says "love" like a child's smile!, you can help feed and care for infants each day, volunteers stimulate, love and nurture them in a way a parent would. Just playing with these children will make a huge difference in their lives. And you will benefit from the healing smiles and warm hugs of your small charges. Physicians can also be helpful. Day-care centers are located in economical depressed areas of the city

Taking care of people with mental and physical disabilities
Volunteers can help with daily routines such as feeding and cleaning, and also assist with recreational activities, playing, music and exercising. Joining the local organization in its commitment to serving the physical and mentally disabled population also helps add to the sense of solidarity that nurtures their efforts.
NOTE: To apply for this project is necessary to have previous experience

Recommended minimum time= 3 weeks

ELT English teaching
We are in need of English speaking volunteers to provide English lessons to Peruvian students at public schools and English schools. Students are from 6 to 20 years old and are from different levels of English language ability. Volunteers will work from Monday to Friday. 4 hours per day either in the morning or afternoon.  
An average of 20 pupils will attend the classes. Students are very co-operative because they really want to learn and improve their English.
NOTE: Classes in Public Schools run from April to December

Farming communities

This cultural immersion program is set up with the aim to settle a rural network of alternative tourism in Peru.

The goal of this project is to bring people from around the world to experience life in small farming communities.

This project seeks to provide an alternative source of income for farmers and to promote cross-cultural understanding.
Volunteers will help in diverse duties. Among their main activities are planting and harvesting crops, installing irrigation and delivering animals.

Optionally you can help the family making handicrafts, textiles, build houses.

In education English speaking volunteers can teach English to the local community.

Making bricks, and tiles
Volunteers help to a family that makes bricks and tiles. In Peru this poor families form small communities and settle close to urban centers. Although bricks and tiles for building houses are made in large factories many families still keep making them handmade.

Earthquake Recovery Program
Help rebuild schools and houses in the south coast
of Peru.
This volunteer program is for groups or individuals who are able to work in basic conditions.
Due to a hard living conditions we recommend a maximum of 3 weeks commitment.

Conservation

Help Amazonian indigenous communities to organize themselves to face globalization.

Indigenous communities are settle in large territories respecting and living in close relationship with nature.

Nowadays new risks are endangering their pristine world.

Oil prospectors, loggers, coca farmers, private inns are depleting or privatizing their territories.  

Volunteers will help indigenous communities to run conservation programs.

This volunteer opportunity is for groups of minimum 5 people.

Recommended minimum commitment 4 weeks 
 

Write Us for a detailed information package