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TestimonialsGuatemala Internships Abroad
The
International Volunteer Travel offers a diverse array of
overseas internships in Latin America. You can intern abroad
in Guatemala to polish your skills, for college study abroad
credits, or for high school credits.
Guatemala is a great place to experience the Latino culture, learn the Spanish language and intern abroad in Central America.
There are short-term, long-term and group international internship placements. Internship abroad projects are available in many areas including working with children; teaching; health care; reforestation and nature; women?s prison; women artisan groups.
Internship with Guatemala Children
Every year in Guatemala, hundreds of children become orphans after the death of their parents. These children are left to fend for themselves on the streets. To survive most of these children resort to stealing while others become objects of prostitution and exploitation.
The International Volunteer Travel partners with orphanages in Guatemala to provide internship services through education and other related services to enhance the lives of the children and also to give them a hope and a future to look forward to.
Interns working in orphanages will assist in health education, teaching English, developing creative talents such as arts and crafts, painting, playing games and other related activities. Other internship work include helping with cooking, doing regular home chores and assisting kids with their homework. Also the orphanage has an infirmary where Guatemala interns with medical or health background can work.
Project
Highlights: For the highlights of this Guatemala
internship project including location, age, language
requirements, and transport, etc, please click here.
Teaching Internship Work in Guatemala
Like most of Latin America, Guatemala has experiences a significant lack of elementary and high schoolteachers. Guatemala interns abroad and gap year overseas program participants can provide much needed help teaching overseas in Guatemala. You can travel to Central America and teach English as a second language (TESOL) or teach other subjects like math, sports, art, and the sciences. Your internship service will be highly appreciated and fulfilling to you as an intern or gap year student.
You can choose to intern abroad at a primary (elementary) school at a village in Cabrican some 45km (28 miles) from Xela where living is very country; or intern at a Secondary (high) school in Xela where living is more urban, at least by Guatemala standards.
Project Highlights: For the highlights of this Guatemala internship project including location, age, transport, etc, please click here.
Internship with Guatemala Women Artisans
In 1996, the 36-year old civil war between the Guatemalan government and guerilla forces came to an end with both parties signing a Peace Accords. After the civil war many women with neither education nor work experience found themselves in a difficult position of having to take care of their families by themselves as their husbands had been killed during the war.
The International Volunteer Travel partners with Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) in Guatemala, to improve the standardof living of women and their families through sustainable economic development.
Interns abroad who sign up for the Artisan groups internship work will assist in women adult education; promotion of traditional weaving; supervising the quality of products and; promotion and marketing of products at both local and international markets. You can also learn how to make the products and assist in the same.
Project Highlights: For the highlights of this Guatemala internship project including location, age, and transport, etc, please click here.
Women Prisons Internship
Guatemala is among 15 countries in the world where Non-sentenced prisoners make up the majority of the prison population. In some cases, prisoners also continue to be held after the expiration of their sentences.
International Volunteer Travel partners with local NGOs in Guatemala to provide mental and emotional support for women in prisons through motivation, and other forms of organized activities. This internship work is emotionally and psychologically challenging but at the same time immensely rewarding. Interns abroad who sign up for internship work with imprisoned women will assist in teaching them to read and write; teaching English, aerobics, arts and crafts and teaching other special life skills.Project Highlights: For the highlights of this Guatemala internship project including location, age, and transport, etc, please click here.
Nature and Reforestation Internships
Do
you desire to save nature? You can effectively do so
by signing up for reforestation work abroad in the most
beautiful central American country of Guatemala Deforestation
and land use change largely a result of the clearing
of land for cattle ranching and agriculture are some
of the major environmental issues facing Latin America
in general and Guatemala in particular.
As an international intern some of your placements will be with organizations that are working towards protecting the environment and also promoting environmental consciousness among local people. Overseas interns will work at the nursery, collecting seeds, filling soil bags, weeding the seedlings, planting and raising trees of local species such as alder, cypress, pine and eucalyptus.
Project Highlights: For the highlights of this Guatemala internship project including location, age, and transport, etc, please click here.
Health Care Internships in Guatemala
Guatemala like many developing countries lacks adequate health care services especially for children and the poor. International Volunteer Travel partners with Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) that provide health care for children and mature people.
The objective of this health care project is to raise the standard and quality of life of the community and provide efficient and quality services to people who are most vulnerable, especially women and children.
International interns will work with local health centers and assist with routine medical work like taking vital signs, dressing wounds, taking patients history and keeping medical records, counselling patients, providing assurance and moral support to patients’ family, medical laboratory work; medical and dental public health campaigns, etc.
Professional Requirements: All health care interns (doctors, nurses, dentists, senior students, etc) need proof of training such as practicing license, student ID, etc.
Guatemala Program Highlights
Age Limit: 18 and over; Under
18 years only as outlined on Gap
Year Abroad in Guatemala and Group
Volunteer Abroad pages.
Free Program: Volunteer placement is free for all those who
sign up for our Spanish
Study Abroad Program.
Location: Xela; Buena Vista Los Corales, Cabricon, Guatemala,
Length of Program: 1 to 24
weeks for reforestation; 2 to 24 weeks for
all others.
Starting Dates: 2nd and 4th Wednesday of
every Month. Plan on Arriving the day before.
Airport Arrival Time: Preferably by 11:00
AM
Accommodation and Meals: Except during the Adventure Program,
accommodation provided in Host families. 3 local Guatemalan
home meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) are provided per day.
Transportation: Most projects are within
5 to 20 minutes walking distance from home. Projects further
off can be reached by walking or by local bus at your expense.
Bus fare is up to about USD 2.00 for a daily return trip
to and from project. See specific project for details.
Schedule: Mondays to Fridays. 4 to 5 hours
daily.
Program Costs: For international volunteer
Guatemala program fees, please click here.
Spanish Language Requirements
All programs except nature and reforestation require Spanish language skills. We offer Survival Spanish and Spanish Study Abroad programs to help you meet these requirements. Two weeks of studying with either of the above programs is required prior to staring volunteer or internship work. One week is required for those fluent in Spanish.
Submit an Application
To submit an application, click here. To contact us, click here. To read more about the application process for International Volunteer Travel programs, click here.
Other Guatemala Programs
In addition to internships abroad, we offer opportunities for voluntary work abroad in Guatemala, Survival Spanish learning, Spanish Study Abroad and Adventure Holidays programs in Guatemala, Central America.