Overview of the Project

Do you enjoy and have fun working with children? Would you also like to help maintain a better living situation for many of these children who live below poverty? Then this is the perfect opportunity for you! In this project you can help out at the orphanages in Guatemala. Global Crossroad has teamed up with orphanages in Guatemala to help support these abandoned or orphaned children with education and hope. It is a place where volunteers can watch the children laugh, learn, and grow.

Role of a Volunteer

Volunteers in the orphanage projects are involved in various activities such as playing with the children, organizing educational activities with the kids, helping with their homework, keeping them clean, along with cleaning the orphanage and helping in the kitchen.

Skills/Qualifications Requirements

Volunteers do not require any special skills or qualifications because the project staff will provide all the necessary orientation and training to effectively carry out volunteer activities. However, volunteers should be passionate about caring for others and very understanding to the often adverse situations of these children

Room/Food/Supervision

Most of our volunteers live in a homestay with local host families. Our host families are carefully screened. They are educated, socially respected, and have hosted international volunteers in the past. A host family offers you a separate room (sometime you need to share with a fellow volunteer of same gender) and three local meals a day. The family and volunteers share use of the bathroom/shower and kitchen facilities. This also provides a local support network beyond the volunteers and program staff. Many of the volunteers consider their home stay a vital component of their Guatemalan experience.

Ongoing Programs

Teaching English Orphanage Project Medical Project Day Care Center for Children Women’s Project