Community Development - Otra Cosa Network

HELP Women: Empower Local Women in Huanchaco

Age: 21+ Level of spanish: Duration: Min. 1 month Location: Around Huanchaco

Help women in the local community to realise their full potential and rediscover their self-confidence

Capacity Building Workshops

Age: 21+ Level of spanish: Higher Intermediate Duration: Min. 3 months Location: Others/Various

Many of our small local community projects could use some training and/or capacity building. If you have the right skills/background, maybe you could help?

New Initiatives/ Ideas to Help?

Age: 21+ Level of spanish: Intermediate Duration: Min. 3 months Location: Others/Various

Want to work on your own project idea with us? - we're open to new ideas and initiatives, so lets discuss!

Music Project

Age: 18+ Level of spanish: Intermediate Duration: Min. 1 month Location: Central Trujillo city

The local music conservatory can use volunteer musicians to help teach kids and periodically to help organise concerts in this colonial city

Support women surffering from domestic violence

Age: 20+ Level of spanish: Higher Intermediate Duration: Min. 2 months Location: Outer Trujillo

Support women sufering from domestic violence and help with education and outreach prevention work

Organic fair-trade coffee and sugar community farm

Age: 18+ Level of spanish: Advanced Duration: Min. 1 month Location: Mountain Village

Help local villagers grow organic fair-trade coffee and sugar to develop a finacially and ecologically sustainable income in a remote mountain village

Helping out at Sustainable Tourism Agency & Fair Trade Café

Age: 21+ Level of spanish: Higher Intermediate Duration: Min. 2 months Location: Mountain Village

Promoting eco-friendly & community based tourism in a place surrounded by beautiful mountain scenery in Chachapoyas

Cooking/helping/waiter at a vegetarian restaurant

Age: 18+ Level of spanish: Basic to Intermediate Duration: Min. 1 month Location: Huanchaco

Food preparation, cooking and/or waiting on tables at a vegetarian restaurant, helping to fund community projects

ELT Co-ordinator for HELP English Projects

Age: 21+ Level of spanish: Basic to Intermediate Duration: Min. 3 months Location: Huanchaco

ELT co-ordinator to develop and improve language courses, materials and resources for our English Language Teaching projects

Otra Cosa Network Marketing Co-ordinator

Age: 21+ Level of spanish: Basic Duration: Min. 3 months Location: Huanchaco

Marketing co-ordinator for Otra Cosa Network, a small non profit NGO attracting volunteers from around the world

Otra Cosa Network Fundraising Co-ordinator

Age: 21+ Level of spanish: Basic Duration: Min. 3 months Location: Huanchaco

Fund-raising co-ordinator for Otra Cosa Network, a small non profit NGO attracting volunteers from around the world

Otra Cosa Network Volunteer Co-ordinator

Age: 21+ Level of spanish: Higher Intermediate Duration: Min. 6 months Location: Huanchaco

Volunteer co-ordinator assisting with meeting, greeting and looking after volunteers at Otra Cosa Network, a small non profit NGO attracting volunteers from around the world

Otra Cosa Network Office Volunteer

Age: 21+ Level of spanish: Basic Duration: Min. 2 months Location: Huanchaco

Help with the various management and administration tasks of Otra Cosa Network a small non profit NGO attracting volunteers from around the world

Helping out at the skate ramp

Age: 18+ Level of spanish: Basic to Intermediate Duration: Min. 1 month Location: Huanchaco

Teach skateboarding to local kids and/or helping out at the skate ramp to give these kids from deprived areas a chance to be good at something & develop self-confidence

Helping out at the surf school that supports local children

Age: 18+ Level of spanish: Basic Duration: Min. 1 month Location: Huanchaco

Help out at a local surf school/hostel that offers free surf classes/ equipment rental to poor local kids, and teach/ take them out surfing

Fair trade postcard photography project

Age: 18+ Level of spanish: Advanced Duration: Min. 2 months Location: Central Trujillo city

Teach digital photography techniques to teenagers and give them a chance to make an income by selling their postcards for which they receive 50% of the profit.

Psychology/social work at home for ex-street children

Age: 25+ Level of spanish: Advanced Duration: Min. 2 months Location: Huanchaco

Psychology and/or social work helping ex-street children to help give them a stable, secure base and develop a better chance in life

Administration at home for ex-street children

Age: 25+ Level of spanish: Duration: Min. 2 months Location: Huanchaco

Help manage and administer an ex-street children's home to help give the kids a stable, secure base and develop a better chance in life

Assistant at home for ex-street children

Age: 21+ Level of spanish: Advanced Duration: Min. 6 weeks Location: Huanchaco

Help loook after ex-street children living in a home to help give them a stable, secure base and develop a better chance in life

HELP English: Teach English in Rodríguez de Mendoza

Age: 20+ Level of spanish: Higher Intermediate Duration: Min. 1 month Location: Mountain Village

Teach English and support a sustianble-living boarding house (Casa Hogar) for students from remote villagesi n the mountains in Rodríguez de Mendoza

HELP English: Teach English in Yanasara

Age: 20+ Level of spanish: Higher Intermediate Duration: Min. 1 month Location: Mountain Village

Help teach children from the children's home and support the community in a remote mountain village in Yanasara

Construction/gardening/bakery at a shanty town school

Age: 18+ Level of spanish: Basic Duration: Min. 2 weeks Location: Around Huanchaco

Help out at School Bakery or with Consturction/maintenance and/or gardening at an alternative school offering free education to poor children of all ages in a shanty town