The Programme
Week One – Introduction to Bolivia
An introduction to Bolivian culture, the Spanish language, and others on the programme. You will be based in the heart of Bolivia’s second city Sucre, within touching distance of markets, bars, cafes and salsa clubs.
Week Two – Helping the locals
Choose from 1 of 3 volunteer projects. Learn more about solutions to poverty in Bolivia. This opportunity offers exciting hands-on work and a meaningful cultural immersion, working alongside local children from deprived backgrounds.
Option 1: Educational Support Centre
You will be teaching maths, languages, history, sciences, geography, and also helping to cook, sweep, paint, wash dishes and help carry out general duties around the centre.
Option 2: Day-Care Centre for Children
There are 30 children aged from 1 to 6 at the centre. You will interact with the children and work with the teachers in all activities; help the children to paint, draw, sing, dance, teach numbers and colours and to play with them after they finish their activities.
Option 3: Teaching Centre for Disabled Children
Classes are run for children with different physical and mental disabilities. Volunteer activities can include playing football with the children, joining in with music classes, painting, and helping with tasks around the school.
Week 3 – The best of Bolivia
A guided tour that will take you to see some of the most surreal and extraordinary places on earth that you will never forget!
Week Four – Wildlife and Indigenous Community project
After flying from La Paz over the beautiful Andes Mountains you will arrive at the town of Rurrenabaque in the Amazonia region of Bolivia. You will then take a voyage along the Beni River through the rainforest to San Miguel del Bala where the indigenous Tacana people live.
What’s Included in the Programme
- All accommodation
- Five-day language school, including meals
- Cultural activities
- The Best of Bolivia excursions
- One week volunteering work at social projects
- One week volunteering at Wildlife and Indigenous Community project
- One-day jungle excursion at San Miguel del Bala
- Flights from La Paz-Rurrenabaque-La Paz
- Proof of participation certificates
What’s Not Included in the Programme
- Personal travel insurance for the duration of your placement, which must include cover for repatriation (i.e. flying you back to the UK in the case of an emergency).
- International flight to Sucre
- Breakfast and lunch not included if in student residence
- Meals in Potosi
- Flight from La Paz to Sucre
- Bus transfer from airport to Rurrenabaque (approx. 7 Bolivianos or US$1)
- Soft drinks, beer, wines and spirits
Prices and Durations
Bolivia Experience - 4 weeks £1,299
