Travel Tree City/State: Copan Ruinas Country: HONDURAS Family Volunteering in Honduras REQUEST MORE INFORMATION »» Global Vision International 3 High Street St Albans Herts UNITED KINGDOM AL3 4ED Phone: 01727 250 250 www.gvi.co.uk Program description: Join this project and live in the ancient colonial town of Copan Ruinas, working with the indigenous communities nearby. This unique project enables Families to learn Spanish whilst experiencing first-hand a new culture, by interacting with the community on construction projects. Assist in the building of energy efficient stoves for cleaner air and less wood consumption, promote agriculture to provide harvests for one family for one year, or help with livestock rearing. GVI, along with leaders of the indigenous communities, have developed short-term manual projects to improve the standard of living for hundreds of indigenous families in rural Honduras. 20 hours of one-on-one Spanish classes (based on skill level) are included in the price per week and are highly recommended for those volunteers with no previous Spanish experience or those who want to brush up on their Spanish language!  Those who choose to take Spanish will work on their projects in the mornings and study in the afternoons. Each week, included in the programme, is a guided adventure, which could be a tour of Copán Ruins, horseriding, hot springs etc. Also included in your fee is the funding needed to successfuly complete whichever project you choose to do within the week, whether this be bricks, cement, seeds, fertilzers, tools, extra local labour, wood, wire fencing, corrugated iron, livestock etc. The idea is that you will have funded, worked on and completed each individual project within a week, aimed to improve the standard of living of one family. All transport to and from the community, as well as one-hour internet a day, airport pickups and drop-offs, hotel stay on the first and last night, travel to and from Honduras from Guatemala are also included. General program information: Program open to: Everyone Age range: 12+ Travel to site: Varies Is opportunity more independant or group orientated: Varies No. in group: 3+ Living arrangements on the program: Home stays (living with local families) How long does the program last?: 1-2 weeks What are the dates of this program: Year round Benefits and advantages of the program: GVI has committed itself to helping and assisting the May Chortí villages around Copan Ruinas. These areas of Honduras are the poorest in the country and, as so often happens, rural communites are forgotten and ignored, with more emphasis given to urban school and communities. Adventure and Volunteer as a family Our aims are first and foremost to improve the standard of living of 100’s of Indigenous families who live in often extreme poverty. Global Vision International, with the full support of the Indigenous leaders of the communities, aims to tackle these issues in many different ways through basic funding of simple but essential physical sustainable projects. Once the initial starting phase has been funded and completed, it can be continued for many years without further funding, helping the families become self-sustainable and even start micro-businesses to increase the family income. 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