If you want to do voluntary work in the Amazon, working with indigenous peoples, whether you’re interested in biodiversity, medicinal plants, shamanism, music, planting trees or (authoring) teaching (material), – as long as you’re committed to social change on a grassroots level for at least a period of three months Colonos through its many connections in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon region can help you create an independent volunteer programme. No fees, no institution, no nonsense….
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hi~
i’m curious to hear more…i would love to learn about potential volunteer opportunities that might leave room for the exploration and study of ayahuasca as well. i hope to hear from you! thanks.
Very nice to hear from you – have sent you an email
hello
I am interested in the same information as ashley.
Hi,
Can you please provide me with information on this too?
me gustaria obtener información acerca del voluntariado en el amazonas, además quisiera saber cuanto es el máximo tiempo que se puede esatr allí, y que costos tiene. Gracias
Hello, I hope you are still active. I have spent countless hours (days, weeks, months!) researching volunteer opportunities and I know what to avoid (really slick websites, outrageous volunteer fees, “adventure programs”, etc…) but couldn’t find what I was looking for until now I think. I have randomly stumbled upon and briefly peeked at your blog and I would really like to hear more from you.
Please drop me a line if you can..
cheers
from Canada
Hi, We are still active – at a distance. Have sent email
Gostaria de saber mais sobre este programa
Hi there,
I’ve also been looking for information regarding social volunteerism and working with indigenous cultures and medicines and have yet to find anything substantial. I know this post was made in 2006, so I am hoping that in some way you are still active in this regard.
I have been extremely fortunate in that I have experienced the shipibo dieta format which was a profound, life-changing experience. I’d like to repay Peru, in some way, with my time and talents, and share them with young (or old) minds, as well as learn more about Peru and it’s medicinal plants, cultures, society and languages.
I sincerely hope to hear from you
Ed
Over the years we have spend a lot of time and energy helping people finding their ways in Ecuador and Peru, but too many people just ask for a lot of information, we spend a lot of time suggesting projects, providing contacts and so on, just to find that in the end people go and do their own thing anyway.
Personally, we think that you should go and find their own way – which is precisely what a contract and payment from home before you even leave makes impossible, but which is also what makes a lot of our efforts in vain and slightly frustrating – and therefore this is the message we have to everyone wanting to volunteer:
Do your research, be critical, be open and open-minded, go there, make friends, allies and connections and then do some good work.
Don’t bother going for less than 6 months, for social reasons and for environmental reasons.
Show a good example! Try to understand the very different culture and ways of life, don’t judge and don’t assume you know.
If you are not in favour of global capital and the commodity market place, be very critical and do your reading and talking to learned people beforehand, whether they are activists, social workers, development workers or academics. Read for example a book like Massimo de Angelis’s The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital, or Peter Linebaugh’s “The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All” and for women’s struggles particularly see the work of Silvia Federici, especially her “Caliban and the witch: women, the body and primitive accumulation“. Finally, maybe have a look at Jay Griffiths’s “Wild: An Elemental Journey“.
Most importantly of all: think and inform yourself very critically before you act – anything you do will have an impact, potentially an enormous one and easily a negative one, even though carried out with the best of intentions, if you do not know about local culture, politics and 500 years of colonisation by your fellow white people!
HI.
I would like to volunteer at an ayahuasca healing retreat centre. Any group that you could refer me to that are seeking help in this regards would be greatly appreciated. I am dedicated to the sacred medicines. I am a musician studying icaros and a spine therapist. Id like to offer my volunteer services to any group working with the sacred medicines. Can you help me connect with various groups?
Kind Regards
Byron R. Howell
Can someone PLEASE email me with info/instructions/details:
Want to go ASAP from ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA to PERU:
Limited Funds (student)
Am however part of ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS (can offer some assistance here to small communities willing to sign up contract with my home school University – great possibility: ie – Water/Power/Self-sufficiency and *SUSTAINABILITY*).
Where to STAY ?
How much CASH ?
Who to GO thru (amazon/AYAHUASCA retreat packages)?
Can I do it with only $1000 (and then another $500 in 2 weeks sent from Australia) ?
weiay005@mymail.unisa.edu.au
do you speak and write Spanish?
hello,I am interessted in. Could you send me mail with informations ? gracias, Michaela