One of the advantages of volunteering with the Arajuno Road Project has been the great variety that the volunteer placements offer.

My time at the Arajuno Rd Project straddled the weeks between summer school and regular school so I was fortunate enough to be able to spend time with the kids outside of the regular classroom routine and also participate in the planning and running of the English classes.

Our school term culminated in taking the children and most of the parents for a day trip to the botanical gardens and the water park of Puyo. Although it seemed a logistically impossible task made trickier by Ecuadorian organisation and the unpredicatble weather of the rainforest, the day was a great success and the children loved it.

I had been living in Quito, Ecuador for about 8 months when I decided to join the Arajuno Road Project as the Project Coordinator. My time in Quito was spent teaching English at a university. I enjoyed my time there, but I needed a change and the Arajuno Road Project was exactly what I needed. Having previously worked in recently formed non-profit-organizations, I wasn’t sure what to expect. But upon arriving, I was immediately impressed with the Project and the progress it had made in just one year of existence.