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Volunteering with Peru Volunteer
An experience for life!
Are you considering a gap year, or do you want to apply your professional knowledge during or after your study? Volunteer with Peru Volunteer for an unforgettable adventure.
Volunteering in Peru is a valuable life experience:
- Unselfishly helping others makes both them and you feel happier and more complete
- You receive gratitude and lots of love in return
- You make the world a little better
- You increase your self-knowledge
- You take Spanish lessons at your own level
- You learn to stand on your own feet, solve problems using little means and put things in perspective
- Volunteer work is a perfect addition to your résumé
Are you excited to make a difference in other people’s lives, learn Spanish and immerse yourself in Peruvian culture? Check out why other volunteers decided to come to Peru and contact us to discuss your personal wishes.
Peru Volunteer highlights
Volunteer work
- Teaching English, Sports, Kindergarten and more!
- Projects available all year
- Project combinations without extra costs
- Minimum availability: 4 weeks
- Volunteer work in Cusco
- Develop yourself while helping others
- Small organization with personal attention
- Volunteer certificate
Learn Spanish
- Learn Spanish in Peru
- 20 hours per week
- Small groups or private
- Perfect preparation for your volunteer work
- Courses available on all levels
- Cultural evening program included
- Inside and outside classes
- Classes are focused on making you speak
Culture & Travel
- Discover the ancient Peruvian Inca culture
- Visit the world-famous Machu Picchu ruins
- Weekends are free to travel
- Local markets and traditions
- Salsa, cooking classes and day hikes
- Peru has a very diverse nature
- Cusco: archaeological capital of South-America
- Tourism advice from our staff
Selection of blogposts
5 Reasons why You will Love Peru 8 December, 2017 - 5 Reasons why you will love Peru Going abroad is a big step and super exciting. A new culture, different ... - Volunteering with Peru Volunteer 4 August, 2017 - Volunteering with Peru Volunteer: an experience for life! When you are considering a gap year, or when you want to ...
- Inca Jungle trek 24 November, 2015 - Inca Jungle trek to Machu Picchu 4 days / 3 nights Biking, Rafting, Zip Line, Hot Springs – this ...
Peru Volunteer Facebook Reviews
Nico Schlag
2018-09-12T20:11:39+0000
Had a great time here in Cusco! The apartment of Peru Volunteer is nice and big and very close to the Ttio market with its delicious fruit shakes! Went there almost every day for breakfast. The spanish clases with Libia were fun and I really learned a lot, even though I couldnt speak a word when I arrived. I did the school and the soccer project and cant decide which one I liked better, so I can really recommend doing these two. Marcelo, the peruvian „coordinator“ is also really nice and is actually rather a friend than a coordinator. So it was really easy for me to organize seeing a lot of Peru as well, beside my volunteer work. Muchas más gracias por todos!
Marco Philipp
2018-07-12T01:15:15+0000
Hi everyone,Volunteering in Peru was more of a spontaneous decision for me while traveling in South America. Still, Thomas and Marcelo were able to perfectly organize everything for my girlfriend and me, even on short notice. We taught English at a local school and did a marketing analysis for Peru Volunteer, as well as filming little promo videos for all the projects.
By visiting many projects for filming, we really got a good overview of the organization's work. It showed that the work of the volunteers really makes an impact and that all the volunteers had fun while staying in Cusco.
Cusco itself is a very beautiful city and there is so much to explore while staying. We also got three weeks of Spanish classes in a school that works together with Peru Volunteer and it helped us tremendously to improve our Spanish.
To sum it up, we had a very good time in Cusco. All the other volunteers were really friendly and helped us during the first few days. Special thanks to Marcelo, the project coordinator, who really does an awesome job organizing everything and all in all is just a cool guy.Thanks for the great time!
Marco
Annika Lenz
2018-06-30T03:42:02+0000
I decided to volunteer in Peru for six months and I had an incredible time. Of course at first I was scared because I didn’t speak any Spanish or know anyone in the country but it all worked out pretty well. Peru Volunteer is working with a great Spanish School with really caring teachers that you were able to contact throughout your whole stay if you had any questions even after the language course was over. They organised many trips with us so that we could really get to know Cusco which is a beautiful city.
Since I had a good relationship with all the other volunteers in the apartment we also organised a lot of trips on our own like Machu Picchu. I also had a tremendous time in the projects I was working in. It is an amazing experience to help the people there and especially if you are actually responsible for the students and teach on your own. You can’t describe the feeling you get when all the students come running to you every morning and start to hug you and ask so many questions about you and your country.
When we had any problems we could always contact our coordinator Marcelo who often checked in with us and with whom we all had a great relationship. We were also really lucky to meet Thomas who always showed us how important PV was to him and who you could always rely on if you had any requests or just wanted to chat. I haven’t been gone for that long and already really want to come back! I can recommend PV to everyone and can almost assure you that you will have a great time. So thank you very much for this amazing experience! I miss you a lot!
Judith Hovestadt
2018-05-16T02:54:10+0000
Tenía un tiempo increíble aquí en Cusco. Me encanta la cuidad, los proyectos (los niños!!) y sobre todo las personas! Muchas gracias a Marcelo, Libi y Thomas que siempre nos ayudaron.
Voy a extrañarlos a todos!
Lo recomendaría totalmente!