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Volunteer Program in Mexico and Guatemala
| "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -- Howard Thurman, civil rights leader |
The view from the farm of Motozintla, dry and rainy seasons
Come join the adventure of applying your hands, heart, and mind to the task of creating economic justice, helping people to grow food sustainably, teaching permaculture, reforesting a mountain, and more.
Part of the Sexto Sol Mission is to provide opportunities for people to do service for the greater good in the Sierra Madre of Chiapas and in the repatriated refugee communities we assist in Guatemala.
We offer two types of volunteer opportunities. Volunteers are people who come to live and work at Tierra Linda for a week to a couple of months. People with permaculture knowledge especially needed. We offer a limited number of internship opportunites to people who are interested in developing themselves for future careers in sustainable development through NGO work. Interns make a volunteer commmitment for longer time. We provide training over this time and opporunities in the field that help interns to gain an insight into NGO work.
Housing available at Tierra Linda farm for a modest rent. Volunteers and interns must apply via email to tamara@sextosol.org
Become part of the Sexto Sol Family!
Volunteer Opportunities:
Our needs change depending on what we are focusing on at the time. Please write for more information.Spring and Summer - caretaker(s) for the agroecology/homestead while we do work at other locations. Experience with organic farming, Spanish must be passable. We will need help for a week in May and possibly June.
Winter: SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY, COME PICK COFFEE IN GUATEMALA at Nuevo Bullaj collective coffee farm. This community of repatriated refugees needs help to harvest their coffee. It is their chance to sell this year to a socially responsible coffee company. Help is urgently needed. Live in the community. Harvest begins in November and continues through January.
ALSO AT NUEVO BULLAJ, people with hospitality industry (hotel) experience - Nuevo Bullaj is creating an eco-lodge for eco-tourism and agro-tourism. We are looking for people with relevant management experience to help them set up the kitchen and other aspects of the hotel. You must have good spanish for this work.
On-going - See the Eco-tourism section for more information. Come explore this region to help us find the best trekking routes, places to climbing, caves or to check out the rivers for possible kayaking. We need adventurers willing to go hunting for the best places to see.
Send your English books and magazines to Malawi to help keep girls in school. Clean out your basement or, if you get inspired, go to yard- sales or to the local library book sale. Help these girls see themselves as valuable and capable. Especially useful would be textbooks, science books. Imagine what good a permaculture book could do. Good novels will help them enjoy reading. Please send only things appropriate for a school library. Scientific calculators also needed. Box what you have up and send by mail, preferably registered.
Bowa Advancement of Girls Education Project
c/o Ulemu Chiluzi
CARE Malawi
Private Bag A89
Liongwe
Malawi
Botswana - People with training or interest in early childhood education are needed to help train teachers and participate in a project to provide day care for AIDS orphans though Tesayo Project. Write to us for contact information.
Volunteer from your home!
Sexto Sol is able to do the work in the field thanks to the help of volunteers who help promote projects, do fundraisers, do research, mail letters, send us books and much more. We love our volunteers.Please check the "Current Volunteer Opportunities" postings regularly!
Many thanks to:
Mary and Tony Campbell, MI, USAEvan Ravitz, Boulder, CO, USA
Greg Willson, Nederland CO, USA
Luis Manriquez, AZ, USA
Mary Murphy, MI, USA
Mario Gomez, USA
Volunteers and interns in the field
Mary Lacques, Hawaii, USA
Camila Risenfeld, Sweden
Ale Hueler, Chez Republic
Lucienne Mueller, Switzerland
Cormac Lawler, Ireland
Jen Miller, CA, USA
Barbara and John Payne, England
Zac y Amy McMullen, CO, USA
Cory, Lael, Joshua, USA
Jonathan Jensen, Utah, USA
Marcel Van der Meer, Holland
Scotty Kellog, Texas, USA
Alejandra Mancera, Chile
Cleo Wolfe-Erskine, CA, USA
Jill Howdyshell, OR, USA
Mary Richardson, Quebec
Amanda Mortl, MA, USA
Jake McLean, AL, USA
Jed Loveday-Brown, CA, USA
Wendy Cortemancie, NM, USA
Michael McDermott, England
Melinda Matson y Arhen Lutz, USA
Margaret Raven, Austrailia
Karen Ageson, Canada
Miriam Stein, Canada
Francisco Alfonso Gordillo Melgoza, México
Mark Taylor, UK
Rob Hellrigel, North Carolina, USA
Lange Eve, North Carolina, USA
Diane Lees, England
Josue Diaz, Texas, USA
