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SUMMARY LIST OF MEDIUM TERM PROJECTS (MTV) 2010-2011

 

 

 

THE MTV PROJECTS SHOWN IN THIS PROGRAM ARE THE SAME WORK THE ONLY THING THAT CHANGES IS THE LOCATION AND THE DATES. TO SEE MORE DETAILS SEE THE CONCERNING MTV PROJECTS INFO SHEETS.

MTV PROJECTS

 

The MTV projects were born of the necessity to involve international volunteers in volunteer projects in Mexico to work together with Mexican youngsters.

 

Vive Mexico started to organize these projects in 2001 with excellent results, reason why we have decided to open more places for International Medium Term Volunteers.

 

Volunteers in these projects will have the chance to interact with many local communities and will be working closely with Mexican young people. This is an experience about organizing, working and making at the same time long lasting friendships by helping communities. But, most important, it is about sharing a life experience with the people of Mexico.

 

Many things have to be made for coordinating international work-camps and one of them is leading international groups of volunteers; this is what these projects are all about. Volunteers will lead different groups of international volunteers in projects taking part in Mexico.

 

The projects can vary in many ways. Vive Mexico organizes every year a great diversity of activities.

 

The MTV volunteer will be the camp leader of the international work-camps and will be in charge to coordinate groups of international volunteers to work in the activities of the projects but also to encourage the interaction with locals giving raise to a cultural exchange of all participants.

 

This is a very demanding work and you will be working with a Mexican co-leader in each camp.

 

The Mexican co-leader and the MTV will receive:

 

1.-A Leader Training Course about how to lead international groups of volunteers.

2.-A training in order to adapt to the Mexican culture, manage cultural shock and motivation of work teams.

3.-A training in order to learn more about administration team tools, techniques to manage conflicts and how to make teams of people work smoothly.

 

WORK: The work will consist in helping to coordinate local projects in different communities in Mexico and to be the camp leader of groups of international volunteers (managing daily life, organizing volunteers’ finances, etc.), and also to coordinate the relationships with the local people. Every project always will be supported by Vive Mexico staff and the local hosts of each project.

 

Each MTV volunteer will lead 2 or 3 groups of international volunteers in 2 or 3 different projects. Between each camp there will be a vacation period before the next project starts and at the end of the MTV period will make a general evaluation of his/her stay in Mexico.

 

LOCATION: Each MTV project will be held in different locations in Mexico.

 

POCKED MONEY: Vive Mexico will cover all the expenses of the MTV volunteers while in the international projects. Between each project there is an 8 to 17 days vacation period that could be used to rest but also to prepare all the necessary things before the next project starts. Vive Mexico will not cover any expense during these days but after each project volunteers will receive a pocket money.

 

DETAILS OF THE MTV PROJECTS AND THE WORK-CAMPS TO LEAD IN EACH ONE:

 

CODE                    NAME                                                                   DATES                                    TYPE                VOLS                EXTRA-FEE

VIVEMTV10       Leading Project in Mexico X                                   20/10/10 - 03/12/10                  LEAD                   2                             0

Projects to lead:

Leader training and cultural preparation                                                            20/10/10 - 25/10/10

VIVE20  Sea Marine Turtles Marquelia V  Marquelia, Guerrero                      27/10/10 - 12/11/10

Vacation period                                                                                                  13/11/10 - 15/11/10

VIVE22  Sea Marine Turtles Marquelia VI Marquelia, Guerrero                      17/11/10 - 03/12/10

 

 

CODE                    NAME                                                                   DATES                                    TYPE                VOLS                EXTRA-FEE

VIVEMTV11         Leading Project in Mexico XI                                08/12/10 - 28/01/11                  LEAD                2                             0

Projects to lead:

Leader training and cultural preparation                                                             08/12/10 - 13/12/10

VIVE23  Sea Marine Turtles Colola VII              Colola, Michoacan                15/12/10 -  31/12/10

Vacation period                                                                                                  01/01/11 -  10/01/11

VIVE25  Sea Marine Turtles Colola VIII             Colola, Michoacan                12/01/11 -  28/01/11

 

 

CODE                    NAME                                                                   DATES                                    TYPE                VOLS                EXTRA-FEE

VIVEMTV12         Leading Project in Mexico XII                               08/12/10 - 28/01/11                  LEAD                2                             0

Projects to lead:

Leader training and cultural preparation                                                              08/12/10 – 13/12/10

VIVE24  Sea Marine Turtles Marquelia VII    Marquelia, Guerrero                   15/12/10 -  31/12/10

Vacation period                                                                                                    01/01/11 -  10/01/11

VIVE26  Sea Marine Turtles Marquelia VIII   Marquelia, Guerrero                  12/01/11 -  28/01/11

 

 

CODE                    NAME                                                                   DATES                                    TYPE                VOLS                EXTRA-FEE

VIVEMTV13         Leading Project in Mexico XIII                          26/01/11 - 11/03/11                     LEAD                2                             0

Projects to lead:

Leader training and cultural preparation                                                              26/01/01 – 31/01/11

VIVE27  Sea Marine Turtles Colola IX                          Colola, Michoacan       02/02/11 - 18/02/11

Vacation period                                                                                                    19/02/11 – 21/02/11

VIVE29  Sea Marine Turtles Colola X                           Colola, Michoacan        23/02/11 - 11/03/11

 

 

 

CODE                    NAME                                                                   DATES                                    TYPE                VOLS                EXTRA-FEE

VIVEMTV14        Leading Project in Mexico XIV                              26/01/11 - 11/03/11                  LEAD                2                             0

Projects to lead:

Leader training and cultural preparation                                                       26/01/01 – 31/01/11

VIVE28  Sea Marine Turtles Marquelia IX     Marquelia, Guerrero            02/02/11 - 18/02/11

Vacation period                                                                                            19/02/11 – 21/02/11

VIVE30  Sea Marine Turtles Marquelia X      Marquelia, Guerrero            23/02/11 - 11/03/11

 

 

SPANISH COURSE FOR CAMP LEADERS

 (Only for participants of Medium Term Voluntary Service Projects in MEXICO)

Vive Mexico besides the MTV projects organizes an intensive Spanish course for all the camp leaders interested in learn and practice Spanish.

 

This activity is organized 7 days before the starting date of each camp. The volunteers MUST GO to Morelia City to take part in it. Afterwards, they must go to their project meeting point by themselves.

 

The cost for the Spanish language course is:

 

SPANISH LANGUAGE COURSE                                                100 EUROS

 

The cost includes:

•             Hosting for 7 days and 6 nights in a private house in the city with all facilities at disposal.

•                Materials needed for the course (theory books, exercise’s books, etc.)

•                Intensive Spanish courses are given by a professional Spanish teacher in Morelia City 3 hours a day plus homework.

 

This cost is very cheap compared with a traditional language courses in a private Spanish school in Mexico, and the people giving the course are professional Spanish teachers. The courses length will be about 3 hours a day during 5 days and the participants will have a lot of homework to do.

 

There will be a day off generally on Sunday, to give the chance to the participants to visit the nearby towns and interesting places and to know better each other.

 

Volunteers have to indicate in the confirmation slip if they want to take part in these activities and in which dates.

 

Since the first year we organized this course it had been really successful, we strongly recommend to your volunteers to take part in it. If they do not speak a good Spanish, it will help them to enjoy even more their work-camps. It is also an opportunity to spend one week in the beautiful city of Morelia in a relaxing atmosphere. For further questions do not hesitate to contact us.

 

 

 

LONG TERM PROJECTS (LTV)

 

INTRODUCTION:

 

Dear partners,

 

In these pages you will find the brief information about the Long Term International Voluntary Service Projects in Mexico for 2010-2011.

 

This program is conceived with the objective to provide a learning experience to all volunteers but also to have something useful and positive to realize in the communities. In Vive Mexico, we are always looking and working to offer more and better opportunities for the young people to have an educational experience, a formative trip and, at the same time, an enjoyable stay in Mexico as a volunteer.

 

We will be very happy to welcome your volunteers in Mexico, to show them our culture, our way of living, our history, our feelings and how we work to help in the solution of some of the most common problems in Latin-American countries and how we do it in international projects bringing together each volunteer and the local people working to build a better world.

 

 

REQUIRMENTS TO TAKE PART IN LTV PROJECTS

 

1.- To be able to speak in Spanish and English or French.

2.- To be 18 years old or older.

3.- To be in a good state of health.

4.- To have an open mind to be able to understand and live in a different culture, to be adaptable and be able to work in teams for a long period.

5.- To have previous experiences working with teams (preferably in work camps but is not a must).

6.- It is important to have a medical insurance as we cannot provide it.

7.- To be an active and proactive person, able to organize and manage within groups.

 

GENERAL CONDITIONS ABOUT THE LTV PROJECTS:

 

1.- Detailed info sheets will be sent for all the volunteers of each project.

2.- Spanish is the language of the project. Volunteers must be able to communicate in Spanish and write it fairly well. (If the volunteer need it, he/she can take the Spanish course given before starting every LTV project).

3.- It would be very good if volunteers could count with a previous preparation for projects taking part in Latin American countries in order to reduce the cultural shock, nevertheless all volunteers will have an orientation course about the Latin American culture.

4.- An orientation meeting about the project will be given to all volunteers.

5.- Volunteers will need to bring a sleeping bag and an mattress.

6.- The food is provided in the house where the volunteer will stay from Monday to Friday, the hosting in the community is provided during all the project, volunteers must bring their own pocket money.

7.- There is an extra fee of 500 Euros, which is used to cover the expenses of the training, administrative costs, and evaluations.

 

WHAT IS A LONG TERM VOLUNTARY SERVICE PROJECT

 

The voluntary service project is an exchange between a person who gives his/her time, work and energy to a worthwhile project, and a host community, which offers to the volunteer an opportunity to experience, to learn new things and to develop personal skills and personal abilities.

 

The Voluntary Service Movement is a way to propose creative solutions face many different issues such as ecology, recycling wastes, cultural problems or even social problems. Volunteers face many aspects of the culture where they are volunteering and it is way to have an international experience but also to open the mind to understand different cultures, different ways of living and different people concerned for our world.

 

The Vive Mexico Long Term Voluntary Service projects lasts for 6 months. During 2009 and 2010 volunteers will be involved in different works depending on the camp and location, please read the information below…

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT FOR ALL THE LTV PROJECTS IT IS NECESSARY TO BE ABLE TO SPEAK SPANISH AND ENGLISH (OR FRENCH)

 

 

 

SUMMARY LIST OF LONG TERM PROJECTS (LTV) 2010-2011

 

 

 

THE ACTIVITIES OF THE LTV PROJECTS ARE THE SAME ONLY IN DIFFERENT DATES. THERE MIGHT BE SOME SPECIAL ACTIVITIES BUT THEY WILL BE DISCUSSED WITH THE VOLUNTEERS ONCE THEY ARRIVE IN MEXICO. THE PROJECT IS FOCUSED IN TEACHING ENGLISH AND/OR FRENCH IN MEXICAN COMMUNITIES. TO SEE MORE DETAILS OF THE LTV PROJECTS PLEASE REFER TO THE CONCERNING INFO SHEETS.

PROJECT: Vive Mexico has been working this Long Term Program since 2003 with excellent outcomes. The international exchange and cultural understanding is an important tool for the education of every human being. This project was born within this philosophy: a Long Term Volunteer is needed to work within a school in a Mexican community helping in activities involving local youngsters to promote a cultural exchange and learning of the young people.

 

WORK: The volunteer will be part of the school staff. He/she will be giving English and/or French courses for the local youngsters, students of the school (the average age of the students is between 15 an 19 years old) and probably the local people of the town. He/she will also help to organize local groups of ecology or sports and organize some activities for the people of the town but most of them oriented to develop positive activities for the local youngsters with the collaboration of the teachers of the school.

Please remember that detailed schedule and organization of the activities can not be provided to you at this moment due to the long time you will be in the place and because you must agree with the host about terms and conditions of the project before starting to work in the school. Also please remember that in Mexico the conception of time an organization is by far more relaxed than many countries, so please be flexible.

 

Vive Mexico also organizes projects for groups of international volunteers that stay in some communities for 20 days participating in activities for the town development so, in the case the community welcomes a group of international volunteers long term volunteers will help in the organization of the activities the international group will carry out.

This information will be given to you once you arrive in Mexico and this information can change but all the changes will be discussed with you and your local coordinator in the project place. You will also be supported by the local teachers.

 

PLACE: The possible locations where LTV projects could take place are:

Acahuato, Cahulote, Churumuco. Epitacio Huerta, Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Las Cruces, Manga de Cuimbo, Paracuaro, Penjamillo, Senguio, Tzintzingareo. There are many other communities but all of them are located in Michoacan State, once volunteers are accepted the community will be designated to them depending on their skills and experience.

 

HOSTING AND FOOD: Hosting and food are provided for the whole length of the project. Volunteers will be hosted by a local family.

 

MONEY: VOLUNTEERS WILL NOT RECEIVE POCKET MONEY but just food and hosting, so volunteers should bring extra money to buy personal supplies and to travel around during vacations and weekends.

 

FEE: 500 EURO

Each Long Term Volunteer has to pay a 500 € fee once arrived to the meeting point in the Vive Mexico office. This fee is used to pay for the administrative expenses of the project for the whole stay of volunteer in Mexico.

 

IMPORTANT REMARKS:  NOTICE THAT IN VIVE LTV 01 THERE ARE 15 PLACES IN TOTAL AND VIVE LTV 02 HAS 15 OPEN PLACES IN TOTAL, BUT VOLUNTEERS WILL BE HOSTED ONE IN EACH COMMUNITY AND IT WILL BE DESIGNATED DEPENDING ON THE EXPERIENCE AND CURRICULUM VITAE.

 

THE PLACE WHERE VOLUNTEERS WILL BE HOSTED IS TO BE DESIGNATED ONCE THE VOLUNTEER HAS ARRIVED TO MEXICO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPANISH COURSE FOR CAMP LEADERS

 (Only for participants of Long Term Voluntary Service Projects in MEXICO)

 

Vive Mexico besides the LTV projects organizes an intensive Spanish course for all the camp leaders interested in learn and practice spanish.

 

This activity is organized 7 days before the starting date of each camp. The volunteers MUST GO to Morelia City to take part in it. Afterwards, they must go to their project meeting point by themselves.

 

The cost for the Spanish language course is:

 

SPANISH LANGUAGE COURSE                                                100 EUROS

 

The cost includes:

•             Hosting for 7 days and 6 nights in a private house in the city with all facilities at disposal.

•                Materials needed for the course (theory books, exercise’s books, etc.)

•                Intensive Spanish courses are given by a professional Spanish teacher in Morelia City 3 hours a day plus homework.

 

This cost is very cheap compared with a traditional language courses in a private Spanish school in Mexico, and the people giving the course are professional Spanish teachers. The courses length will be about 3 hours a day during 5 days and the participants will have a lot of homework to do.

 

There will be a day off generally on Sunday, to give the chance to the participants to visit the nearby towns and interesting places and to know better each other.

 

Volunteers have to indicate in the confirmation slip if they want to take part in these activities and in which dates.

 

Since the first year we organized this course it had been really successful, we strongly recommend to your volunteers to take part in it. If they do not speak a good Spanish, it will help them to enjoy even more their work-camps. It is also an opportunity to spend one week in the beautiful city of Morelia in a relaxing atmosphere. For further questions do not hesitate to contact us.

 

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NAT/LTV01. Escuela Pingüinos.
Activities:
Educational center for 1 to 8 years old children coming from mar-ginalized groups where basic
education is given with a holistic ap-proach. Organisation of recreational activities and
workshops and assistance to educators. Volunteers will participate in maintenance of the center
as well as in the permaculture sector of the school and they will work with other long term
volunteers. Working hours will be in the mornings and sometimes there will be activities in the
afternoons or weekends.

Duration: 1 school year.
Ubicación: San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas
School provides: Vegetarian breakfast & lunch
Number of volunteers: 2
Begins:  Jan-august
 Participation fee:  1,200 pesos

NAT/LTV02. Sustainable Development and Eco-technologies
Objectives:
Use and sustainable handling of the Woods and Water to better preserve and improve the avail-
ability of these resources
Activities:
The volunteers will participate in the implementation of Appropriate Eco-technologies such as
construction of capturing cisterns of pluvial water, furnaces savers of firewood, hydro-sanitary
reservoirs, systems of water purification. They will have the possibility to set up projects with the
responsible of the Foundation participate in other environmental and sustainable projects in local
communities in Chiapas.
Duration: 3, 6 o 12 months
Location: San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas
Number of volunteers: 2
Begins: Anytime
Participation fee: 1,200 pesos monthly

NAT/LTV03. SUENIÑOS: Activities:
Project in 14 different quarters, where activities take place to empower
children's rights to education, health and nourishment. To support school
education through diverse activities.
Duration:  6-12 months
Location: San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas
Number of volunteers: 3
Begins: Anytime
 Prerequisites:Experience and/or training in working with children Proficient Spanish (50-60%)
Completed application form with Letter of  motivation.
Participation fee: 1,200 pesos monthly
The vision of Sueniños is the desire that underprivileged children, living in an under-served area of
Mexico, be able to break the cycle of poverty in their lives independently and self-sufficiently through
learning vital life skills and receiving assistance in their educational pursuits. Therefore we offer
educational programs which promote healthy growth and development for these marginalized children
which ultimately strengthens their mental, physi-cal, sociocultural and educational opportunities going
forward in their lives. We are working with children daily, after their regular school classes, in the
afternoon. Sueniños is not a "school" and does not replace the schools these children attend but we
support the educational programs by promoting school attendance. Sueniños offers different educating
and training projects that promote the autonomy and inde-pendence of indigenous children who live in the
marginalized outskirts of San Cristóbal. Sixty (60) children attend our Educational Center Sueniños in the
afternoons Monday through Friday. The child-ren participate in various activities in the different work
areas and participate in our projects which are focused on promoting personal and social skills as well as
the talents and interests of the children. Besides the work in the Educational Centre Sueniños we also
offer our different educating projects for children in their communities (colonias) where they live. These
activities take place in the schools of these colonias after school. Presently, we are working in two
colonias on the outskirts of town. Volunteers at Sueniños: Our organization welcomes all interested
persons and offers our volunteers an interac-tive work experience which allows for a "mutual learning"
experience. Sueniños has benefited from this positive exchange of valuable hands-on knowledge and new
ideas from the organization's mo-tivated and effective team.

 NAT/LTV05 – Pequeño Sol 1 - Environmental actions Activities:
Maintenance work on the school's center of collection of reused and recycled materials. ? Help on
the awareness-raising and information of parents of the center on the functioning and the importance
of separating waste in order to favor a culture of preservation of the environment. ? Participation in
school activities that favor the protection of the environment, both with pupils and with mothers and
family parents: actions of reforestation, cleanliness of river, out-of-school campaigns with the topic.
? Participation in the care of a school fish-pond.
? Participation in the care of organic composts. ? To give follow-up to the construction of gardens,
fish-ponds and ecological paths inside the school in collaboration with teachers and students.
Duration: Up to ten months, following the school calendar. Location: San Cristóbal de las
Casas, Chiapas
Number of volunteers:   1 o 2       
 Begins:  Preferable september.
Participation fee: 1,200 pesos monthly

NAT/LTV06 – Pequeño Sol 2 Pedagogical actions
Activities:
School diverse events: about activities that our school community wants to realize link to the aca-
demic, social or affective development of our students (day of the family, day of the infancy, days
related to the care of the environment, to the promotion of democracy and the UNESCO's values,
before emergency humanitarian, Christmas, etc). The volunteers will help on questions of logistic
organization and promotion of the events. ? Care and maintenance of school facilities: the
volunteers will work on labors of cleanliness, garden-ing, repair of buildings and materials, with
intendant workers and pupils. ? Help on reception and in the administrative area : replacing
personal who cannot attend occasionally for reasons of illness or emergency, in functions such as
receptionist and procedures of registration... ? Educational participation: substitute or help teachers
in academic or recreation activities.

Dates, fees, and duration like Pequeño sol I

The School " Pequeño Sol" was created in 1984 by family mothers who wanted to create a new
educational alternative center where all the children regardless of their culture, social class, could coexist
and respect their identities, a School at the service of the community and for the community. Since then, a
Civil Association was constituted without ends of profit, directing all their efforts to the construction of a
school that offers an education balanced be-tween the academic performance and the human integral
formation in Maternal, Pre-school, Primary and Secondary. We are incorporated into the Secretariat of
Public Education and go 23 years of being working. Our Mission: To form autonomous and responsible
persons with him/herself, with the others and with his/her environment. Since 1994 we belong to the
PEA, Plan of Schools Associated with the UNESCO, for what we include inside the activities and
development of the topics of the aca-demic program, the topics related with:
? World prob-lems and search of solutions
? Comprehen-sion and appraisal of other cultures
? Human rights and democracy (Education for peace)
? Environmental education
Nowadays we are 54 collaborators: teachers, administrative and intendant staff. We host more than 300
girls

NAT/LTV07. Marie Stopes 1 - Midwifes
Activities:
We travel to communities to locate midwives. We offer them information about our project and
qualify them in how administering modern medicines to reduce problems that they carry to the
mother mortality.
Administrative support of the project
To be the intermediate person between the team of the project and the team in London (to support
contact, to translate relevant documents)
To take part in the weekly meetings to capture information (helping in the monitoring of the project).
To help in the organization of workshops with midwives in the communities

Duration: 6 months min.
Location: San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas
Number of volunteers: 1
Begins: Anytime
 Participation fee: 1,200 pesos per month

 

NAT/LTV08. Marie Stopes 2 -Marketing and Communication
Marie Stopes manages 6 Sexual and reproductive Health centers that need continuous marketing,
promotion as well as update and innovative communication material and tools
Activities:
Support to the coordination of Marketing and communication as well as to the Management
department:
Visit to the various health centers in order to work in the marketing strategy
 Support in the follow-up of the activities in the marketing area.
 Support in the fundraising activities of the organisation
 Support in the communication of the organisation (newsletters, articles, contact with the media, etc)
 Realization of specific workshops

Duration: At least 3 months.
Location: San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas
Number of volunteers: 1
Begins: Anytime

NAT/LTV10. Parque Educativo San José - RECREARTE
Activities:
RECREARTE comes from Remodeling, Growth, Regional Articulation, Ecological Tourism and
summarizes the activities of rehabilitation and improvement of the park The volunteers will work on
the renovation of the infrastructure used by the biologists for the study of the orchids and
bromeliads. They will realize also panels of information and will work on the improvement of a
mountain biking pathway. The works will include the conditioning of the epifitario and of the
botanical gar-den. The volunteers will also work on the renovation of the infrastructure and will
support the team in charge of the park's little zoo. They will have the possibility to integrate the
educational section of the park and participate in the imple-mentation of environmental workshops,
preparation of international summer workcamps, creation of promo-tional material and an
environmental library in the park premises. The hosting of school groups to show them the park and
the different aspects of it would be also one of the activities carried out by the volunteers together
with the responsible of the different sectors of the park. Other activities such as environmental
campaigns and festivals as well as courses and workshops in local universities wil be part of the
activities of the volunteers .
Duration: From 2 months to 1 year.
Location: San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas
Number of volunteers: 4
Begins: Anytime
The eco-park San Jose Bocomtenelté is an educative parkand a natural conservation area located
in the out-skirts of San Cristóbal de las Casas (municipality of Zinacantán). The park is part of the
Institute of Natural History of the State of Chiapas and its fundamental objective is the protection
of the flora and the fauna of the state of Chiapas. It is a research center that lodges different types
from animal and plants, where biologists and technicians work with the purpose of to rehabilitate
and to preserve the natural beauties and the wealth of Chiapas. The park occupies an area of 16
hectares approximately, but until the moment, 2 hectares are only used. The new administration
wants to reorganize the park and its facilities according to its viable and ecological phi-losophy, as
well as to develop services for nature lovers and responsible tourists (facilities to observe birds,
ecological routes in bicycle, refuges, etc.). The plans for the future are part of the strategic
planning of the Institute. RECREARTE comes from Remodeling, Growth, Regional Articulation,
Ecological Tourism and summarizes the activities of rehabilitation and improvement of the park

NAT/LTV11. TZAJALÁ
COTZASELCH's cooperative is a lasting project in benefit of the
Ha O Mek Ka community situated in Tza-jalá. With their
workshops of traditional jeweler, their agro-ecological experimental
farm (hoticulture, secu-rity, coffee, medicinal plants, etc) the
cooperative develops sustainable development projects in total
agree-ment with the nature. Supported by the French Association
SIERRA with whom Nataté has recently signed a 2-year
cooperation agreement, the cooperative
integrates voluntary service in its activities and the organisation of international
workcamps is becoming an important tool for the organisation
Activities:
The volunteers will realize works of organic agriculture, as well as construction works using ecological
and traditional materials and will rehabilitate several of the cabins in the Ha O Mek Ka community. These
will have the opportunity to realize diverse handicrafts and will learn and apply techniques of
permaculture, hor-ticulture, composts, lombriculture amongst others.
Duration: From 1 month to 1 year.
Location: Tzajalá, municipality of Ocosingo, 1 hr from San Cristóbal de las Casas
Number of volunteers:  3 o 4
Begins: Anytime
Participation fee: 2,500 pesos per month

NAT/LTV12. "Botanical garden of Chiapas's in San Cristóbal de L
Activities
The local association Jardín de Epifitas works in the creation of a Botanical Garden in the Cerrito
of San Cristóbal with the approach of the Environmental Culture like demonstrative center
through workshops throughout the City; where sustainable examples are shown like: techniques of
recycling, productive genera-tion of clean energies, possibilities and optimization in the use of the
resources (water, ground and biodiver-sity).
Goals: The volunteers will: · Rescue plants of diverse vegetable families · Care, cultivate and
exhibit plants recovered with an educational purpose · Develop and train with horticultural ends
and educational project. · Develop artistic activities inside the garden · Work on investigation of
species with genetic, forest, horticultural, handcrafted potential and other sustainable development
purposes. . Participate in the creation of the Botanical Garden in the San Cristobal hill.
Duration: From 3 months to 1 year.
Location: San Cristóbal de las Casas
Number of volunteers: 3 o 4
    Begins:  To be confirmed
Participation fee: 1,200 per month

NAT/LTV013. NATATE - Management and support to a NGO
Activities:
Nataté offers the opportunity to volunteers who want to know the functioning of an
Association of Interna-tional Voluntary Service to take part in Nataté's office as support in
diverse sectors of the association's activi-ty. This way the volunteers will have the possibility
to work in the medium and long-term volunteers' sector on the following tasks:
• To support in the short, medium and long term volunteers' sector: · Participation to the
follow-up of the volunteers who take part in diverse projects (projects, finance, etc). ·
Help in the elaboration of promotion documents , details of every projects, draft of the
program of medium and long-term voluntary work · Help on the different stages of the
volunteers: preparation at the arrival, preparation before the end of their volunteering,
evaluations, etc. · Contacts with international organizations and development of
cooperation with new associations Work in the elaboration of the budget · Update the
web page. · Participation in workshops and local, regional, national and international
seminars · Draft of articles for the association's monthly bulletin · Translation and
corrections of documents and projects
Duration: 3 months to  1 year
Location: San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas
Number of volunteers: 2
Begins: Anytime
Participation fee 1,200 per month

NAT/LTV14. AMISAD
Activities:
Amisad proposes to the volunteers a very human and enriching experience through the
daily ac-companying of a group of mentally challenged people (recreational activities,
meals, etc). The vo-lunteers will participate and coorganise the following activities:
• Painting
• Handcrafts
• Kung Fu
• Tai Chi
• Theatre
• Gym (adapted)
• Foot ball
• Table games
• Dance
• Animals caring
• Cooking
• Pastry
• Outside activities such as walks, swimming pool, hikes, movies,

AMISAD A.C. is an educational institution that has as a mission to support people with some kind of
mental handicap in order for them to develop a personal independence. Likewise, it promotes an integral
development of the residents through its Educational Model and through its engagement to integrate itself
into society..
Duration:  6 months to 1 year
Location:  Zapopan, Jalisco
Begins:  Anytime
Number of volunteers: To be confirmed
Participation fee:  2,500 pesos per month.

 NAT/LTV15. Parte y Comparte 1 - an experience to grow

Activities
The volunteer will integrate this project to support to the coordinators participating in the different
methodo-logical stages of the project: convocation of the young people, awareness-raising, first
contact with the com-munity, training, summer stay and evaluation. The volunteer will participate in
the preparation and beginning of different workshops on Academic Leveling, Health, Environmental
Education, Citizenship, Abilities for the Life and technical workshops. During the 4 weeks of
summer stay the volunteer will work with Mexican monitors that visit the different brigades in the
communities in which they work. The volunteer will carry out administrative tasks, as well as
training of the young people and of course will
live in the communities to-gether with the students during the summer stay.
Duration: 9 months
Location: Tuxtla Gutiérrez and the various rural communities.

Number of volunteers: To be confirmed
Begins: Feb/March 2011, probably one for fall.
 Participation fee: 1,200 pesos per month
The association is linked to successful efforts done in the US, South Africa, Serbia, Canada and
Central America and where it is known as "YouthBuild." The model in Mexico has been
developed with a thorough national participation, including hundreds of young people and
integrating the three sectors of society : pri-vate, public and civil. Since 2003, a participative
process of unemployed young people has been carried out in order for them to support
community development and seeking the synergy for labor capacity and leadership for the young
people and this with together with the search for new services beneficial for the community.The
programme offers concrete opportunities to unemployed young people in four different aspects :
1) training in a specific job, developing abilities in the construction area; to become qualified in
an office, being developed abilities in the area of the construction; 2) to produce tangible benefits
to the community through the renovation of communitarian centers, plazas, classrooms and
another space public; 3) to develop their leadership skills, citizenship and abilities for the life;
and 4) to improve their academic level. Once the training and community service has been done,
the programme offers the young students opportuni-ties to integrate the labor market, to continue
their studies or to start off a micro enterprise. It is all about rebuilding communities and
transforming lives!

NAT/LTV17. TSOMANOTIK – Joining hands in solidarity
Project:
During the school summer holidays, the Tsomanotik center organize workshops and activities
focused to aimed at raising awareness among children and young people from Tzimo and Comitán,
in issues of agro-ecology, sustainable development and values, at the same time that makes
participants practice a basic English. So, mexican and foreigner young people work together
planning and in the design of that workshops and the delivery of the same.
Activities:
During June, the volunteers will work part of the time in the agro-ecological activities of the center,
and other part of the day in the design of the workshops that will be held during the month of July
until August 15.
The peculiarity of the project is that the volunteers will teach to the children a basic English "agro-
ecological", so, while children learn and practice the English language at the same time they learn
about agro-ecological issues (such as organic orchard, composta, water care, alternative energies
and others), and of values and solidarity througth the theater, music, draw, paint and other artistic,
recreational and sports activities.
Project Duration: 6 weeks
Location: Tzimol, community located 10  minutes from Comitán.
Number of volunteers: 6 To be confirmed.
Begins: To be confirmed.
 Participation fee: 3,500 pesos per month
Tsomanotik is an agroecological, educative and demostrative center for the sustainable development that
works in two axes: intercultural projects with young people of different countries, and solidarity projects
that help to the local community development.
Tsomanotik give to the participants the opportunity to know different realities that promote the reflection
and motivate them to start local and global solidarity actions.
The vision of the association is to awaken a solidarity awareness in the young people so that after the
discovered of the causes of injustice and poverty, they can act in favor of a more solidarity and fair world,
as well as they can be with marginal groups of Chiapas in their development process.

NAT/LTV18. Talentos y Vida (Cultural Center Talents and Life) Project:
The association proposes a Project about promotion and diffusion of the San Juan Bautista Ex-
Convent, as a Mankind Cultural Heritage, the cultural exchange, through workshops, to share values,
uses, costumes and healthy traditions, for everybody's benefit, the support in the organization of
cultural-artistic, ecological, administrative and organizational activities in the community, in the
Cultural Center.
Activities:
The volunteers will perform linguistic workshops, literary contests, painting, music, traditional
dance, modern dance and theater and other artistic disciplines, awareness programs about the
environment. They will also perform diffusion campaigns for the care of the cultural patrimony of
Yecapixtla: its ex-convent, its cleaning and ecology, of prevention to addictions, chess workshops,
cultural carnivals development, participation in games and nursery rhymes, cultural marathon and
excursions, support to teachers in the said workshops, among others. Besides, they will have the
opportunity to participate in the preparation of the conmemorative celebrations of the place selected
as world heritage site by UNESCO.
Cultural Center Talents and Life
Created on October 12, 2007 to open a cultural space for community service and to offer
a cultural alternative to the population of Yecapixtla, and having as an objective the all-
around development of all the people, particularly children and youth, through
workshops, courses, conferences, cine forum, excursions, promotions and diffusion of the
cultural patrimony, as well as ecology; in order to promote the all-around development of
the people, assisting five basic dimensions: physic-biological, psychological, cognitive
and artistic, social and transcendental-spiritual.
Talents and Life is originated as an objective to encourage the development of the
universal and local Culture, from the basic education, through the several artistic
expressions, until the transcendental dimension, to promote the all-around fulfillment of
each person in his/her community or society.

NAT/LTV19. Amariles
Actividades:
Volunteers will make an educational program in base of early childhood throught artistic
activities.To support in early stimulation activities and environment conscience in a
playful and creative way. To take part in the creation of didactic material with recycled
material.
Duration: ·3 months to one year
Location: San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas
Number of volunteers: 2
Begins: With school calendar.      Participation fee: 1,200 pesos  per month
Requirments: Volunteers should have love and interest for the work  with children,
and/or experience in any artistic discipline; being creativity, basic
spanish knowledges, and be able to join the teamwork.
The daycare has as basic target to make easy the stimulation of different children's areas in
development. The Project is to work that development through playful, artistic, etc.
activities to make learning fun. To make easy the development of next areas: 1)
Motor function  2) Reasoning 3) To make conscience of environment cares
throught playful activities or artistic (puppet theater).

 

NAT/LTV20. Jaguar de Madera
Project:
Project aims, to strengthen community development through the implementation and promotion of
housing models created with its own resources and appropriate conditions for each user, efficient
and responsible with the social, cultural and environmental. Exchange offer and the production of
food, and supplies a goal to offset the crisis of resources and the deteriorating quality of life of the
population and thus improve our coexistence. We intend to collaborate in projects related to our
principles that we generate more knowledge about our environment.
Activities:
Volunteers will participate in the maintenance of workshop space and area of agroecology
practices, assist in designing and maintaining order in the demonstration area will participate in the
care and maintenance of comprehensive farm and compost area, will follow up the construction of
gardens, ponds and nature trails within the area, assist in the process of implementation of
appropriate technologies to be structured during the first weeks of work, finding support in rural
cooperatives and local producers that require input and output result center of production (organic
fertilizers, farm animals, vegetables, mushrooms, etc.), plus volunteers actively participate in
building houses that will serve as a demonstration model in the center and in various communities
around San Cristobal de las Casas. It will be held on a permanent basis, a greater awareness of
sustainable practices in the town surrounding the center.
Duration: ·At least 3 month
Location: San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas
Number of volunteers: 3 o 4
Begins: To be confirmed  Participation fee: 1,200 pesos per monthProject
Reference Centre for Eco-Technologies "Jaguar de Madera" (Jaguar of
Wood).
It was created in 2008 in response to a series of bio-construction processes, involving some of its
members. The initial idea was to create awareness of the need to build systems of coexistence with
the environment. It also worked as a reference point where visitors and locals could learn from the
works and projects developed in different communities in Chiapas and Oaxaca.
In 2009, in collaboration with other organizations, it was established as a training center. This year a
workshop about bici-machines was given to volunteers and had very good results. Achieving the goal
of teaching them about design and managment tools, and providing them with manuals.
Mission: To spread the use and application of appropriate technologies as an alternative to
conventional models that affect the quality of life of the population of the basin Usumasinta-Grijalva.
Currently, they have accepted the participation of different proposals and workshops on issues
related to:
 Construction of earth domes
 Construction with recycled materials such as plastic bottles• Environmental education
 Bike-Machines (blenders, washing machine and others that function with a bicicle system)
 Horticulture
 integral Farm
 Biodigestors for bio-gas and bio-fertilizers
 Systems for rainwater capture
 Dry bathrooms
 Carpentry There are 4 area managers (carpenter, ecotechnologist, bioconstructors and agroecologist)
and two support staff.