Volunteer programs in Peru

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Volunteering with Karikuy

  • Karikuy research project to establish the most extensive data base on Peru

Humanitarian Programs

  • Para el Mundo (PaM) is based out of Mancora and works on Peru's north coast in the areas of community medicine, social services and education.
  • Jóvenes de Buena Voluntad works mainly with juvenil gangs, hooligans, drug problems and teenage pregnancies
  • Asociación Grupo de Trabajo Redes (AGTR) disseminates and defends peoples' rights that are excluded because of poverty, age, gender...
  • Asociación para la Niñez y su Ambiente (ANIA) promotes values and practice of social/environmental responsibilities to children
  • Otra Cosa offers a wide variety of volunteering opportunities
  • Teach Huaraz Peru teaches English in orphanages, preliminary schools, primary schools, secondary schools, universities and language centers
  • FOR THE LOVE OF PERU helps with the development of some ashaninkas communities
  • Clinica San Juan de Dios Cusco is dedicated to those people who need it the most
  • Mundo Libre promotes the healthy and integral development of children and adolescents
  • Los Gorriones is a big family that takes in children that other places would not take
  • Light and Leadership aims to serve women and children who live in Huaycan, Lima, Peru
  • AYNI works together with the community of Alto de los Mores, a small isolated rural village of Indigenous Peruvians to alleviate some of the major barriers of living in extreme poverty
  • Organización para el desarrollo ambiental y la educación regional is building a society which fulfills the human rights
  • Aldea Yanapay self-sustaining organization with an integrated restaurant that gives education to children and visits those that are in prison
  • Awamaki runs a weaving project in the indigenous Quechua community of Patacancha
  • Seeds of Hope offers a wide range of support for children living in extreme poverty in Peru
  • Incawasi improves the educational, social and nutritional situation of children from disadvantaged areas in the city of Cajamarca
  • Asociación Manos de Amistad y Solidaridad (AMAS) gives social assistence to those who need it the most
  • Espíritus Creativos - Christian Ministries are Peruvian Christians sharing the Good News of the Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ with people around Cusco, Peru, teaching them the practical principles of faith and blessing through daily connection with God and His Word
  • Asociación para la Atención Integral de Ninos de la Calle (AIDENICA) offers refuge and an integral service to children and adolescents that live in high risk areas in Lima, Perú
  • Creative Corners specialises in creative projects for creative people
  • Fairmail trains underprivileged teenagers in photography and makes fair trade greeting cards with the best photos
  • PERU works with minors in high risk areas and provides a home to children that work on the street
  • WAVES Connects surfing and sustainable development through: W-ater, A-dventure, V-oluntourism, E-ducation, S-ustainability
  • Q'ewar is working with the indigenous women of the village community of Andahuaylillas
  • Fiore Perú is a Language School (Spanish) which offers different volunteering opportunities
  • Espaanglisch offers inexpensive language classes using native English speakers to benefit the poorest economic areas of Trujillo and Chimbote
  • Supporting Kids in Peru (SKIP) is helping economically-disadvantaged children in El Porvenir to realize their right to an education
  • Esperanza Peru improves the quality of life of the residents of the Central Andes in Peru living in extreme poverty
  • La Semilla develops social programs in different communities of Lima
  • Hogar De Esperanza is an orphanage which offers a loving home and a future to orphaned, abandoned and abused children in Peru
  • Hogares Libertad is an orphanage and currently takes care of 21 children. The majority of these children come from the streets and have been abandoned, and unfortunately often abused.
  • Globalteer is a UK registered non profit charity that serves to help those in need. The project in Peru includes orphanages, a free education programme, library, community and vulnerable children support.
  • Traveller not Tourist is working with 3 different projects - Casa Hogar Luz Alba (an Orphanage), Chachani (a Community Classroom) and Flora Tristan (a School they are building)
  • Expand Peru is a non-profit organization, concerned with the improvement of the quality of life of people living in extreme poverty in Peru

Volunteering in earthquake relief projects

  • PISCO SIN FRONTERAS giving assistance to the people who most need it by helping to build houses, schools, sanitation units and helping with other community-based projects

Volunteering with Animals

  • Organización cientifica para Conservación de Animales Acuáticos (ORCA) promotes, extends and encourages the investigation and the conservation of marine mammals and their environment, developing educational programs and continuous ecological activism
  • Amigo Fiel is a shelter for stray dogs picked up from the street
  • Tambopata Macaw Project is working with wildlife and local communities and a long history of dedicated research and monitoring has provided many insights into various aspects of parrot and wildlife of south eastern Peru.

Volunteering in environmental projects/Ecotourism

  • ECO YOGA FARM Eco Truly Park - Eco Village provides you with the experience of living in a community and learning through helping. Yoga, art, Organic farming and more. Here you will find special people who will do their best to make you feel comfortable and at home. They are dedicated to providing you with a unique experience in a beautiful environment conducive to growing, learning, and sharing.
  • ASPRIDEQ aims to be a working exemplary model at Manu Park, for the development of a sustainable system to manage pristine forest while acting as a conciliator between the conservation at Manu National Park and its social development at the surrounding areas
  • CASA GRILLO s a lodging house in the south of Los Pinos, Zorritos constructed in harmony with the surrounding nature
  • Servicio Nacional de Areas Natural Protegidas is a department of the Peruvian government and helps preserve the protected natural areas
  • ATALAYA supports the ecological restoration of the Manu National Park
  • Andes Slope Waterfall assists and supports the local community in becoming the caretakers and sole benefactors of the Andes Slope Waterfall
  • Amazon Shelter for Animal and Environmental Protection has the mission of preserving the Peruvian Amazonian Wildlife
  • CREES Expeditions provides a structured highly motivating and engaging volunteer programme that direct benefits local communities, the environment and the long-term conservation of the Amazon

Organizations that provide volunteering opportunities in different areas

  • Mosoq Ayllu offers different types of programs to suit the individual needs of the volunteers and also to meet the needs of the local community
  • Projects Abroad organizes overseas volunteer work placements.
  • Nexos Voluntarios promotes voluntary activity by developing projects in different areas: human rights, environment, community development, business and development, education and health care; and encouraging impact-driven non-profit organizations to incorporate volunteers, and by acting as a bridge between such organizations and motivated individuals who wish to participate in meaningful social initiatives in Peru
  • Global Volunteer Network offers volunteer service opportunities in community projects throughout the world. GVN currently has opportunities to work on a range of projects in Peru. Volunteers can become involved in childcare, teaching, construction, healthcare, cultural, and conservation/wildlife projects.
  • Machu Picchu School is a local language school offering Spanish courses at all levels for students coming from all over the world. For those who want to work as a volunteer, they provide an unforgetable experience. It is their goal to find an appropriate project and assist you during your whole stay.
  • Hampy offers a variety of different volunteer projects


Other useful links

A special thanks to Volunteer South America who helped provide the links above.

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