Based in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador the Arajuno Road Project offers volunteers the opportunity to work and teach in schools, providing a structured curriculum for the children, and long-term benefits to communities of the Arajuno Road.

With the help that volunteers give us, we can supply essential educational and sporting equipment, and give the children a more exciting learning experience, by using activities, art and music to teach English.

The Arajuno Road Project needs imaginative and enthusiastic volunteers who are keen to make a lasting difference to the children of the area. Teaching in Ecuador is suitable for first-time and experienced volunteers looking for a true volunteering experience in South America.

Continuity is at the heart of our volunteer projects, offering a structure for both you and the communities you help. Currently, teachers are teaching children from 6 different grades in the same class. Volunteers allow the teacher to teach a smaller number of children focused lessons, whilst the volunteers focus on teaching English. We believe that learning should be an interaction between the children, the subject and the teachers. Volunteers use games and activities to teach lessons and design structured lesson plans as part of a curriculum to ensure that their volunteer placement is as effective as possible, and so future volunteers can build on the work that has been done before them.

Volunteering with the Arajuno Road Project gives you the chance to put something back into the areas you visit while getting to know and understand a jungle community and allows a rare insight into how the locals really live. By teaching in Ecuador at the Amazon Teaching Project you can experience what it is like to go to school in the jungle.