Education and Youth Outreach
Sustainable Development
Community Development
Arts and Culture
Institutional Support
Health care and Nutrition
Building Projects
Gender Issues
Micro Credit
Indigenous Communities
Human Rights and Law

Buenos Aires

Community Center in Lomas de Zamora: This organization was created by a group of mothers in response to the Argentine economic crisis in 2001-2002. The organization works to provide a safe and loving environment for young children (ages 1-13). The dedicated staff and volunteers provide educational support, recreation, nourishment, and cultural activities to more than 140 kids on a daily basis. These activities include: English, art, dance and music, among other things.

Salta (Northwest Argentina)

Soup Kitchen in Salta City: This organization is located in the city of Salta and belongs to a network of soup kitchens.This soup kitchen not only provides nourishment to the surrounding neighborhood, but also is a community center that organizes school support or tutoring, basic computer classes, and recreational activities. This soup kitchen provides one meal daily to more than 270 people, most of them children, but also some elderly and handicapped persons.

General Volunteer Tasks

Volunteers support these organizations in all aspects of their missions. Volunteers often coordinate and organize any number of activities with the help of other volunteers and staff. Activities include: teach English, recreation, tutoring, and organizing thematic workshops or projects that best answer the daily needs of the surrounding community. Volunteers are also needed to assist with administrative activities like updating website, basic project coordination, translations, and fundraising (based on volunteers professional background and language ability).

School Gardens in Buenos Aires

This organization seeks to reconnect citizens to the environment and its natural resources.The organization promotes and raises awareness about environmental sustainability through educational farms, community action and workshops, and the construction of small gardens in local schools throughout the province of Buenos Aires.

Volunteer Tasks: Volunteers may work Monday-Friday with this organization. Volunteers accompany staff part of the time (1-3 days) to local school gardens and assist in the weekly workshops, building projects, and the maintenance of these gardens. Volunteers also work with the organization in Communications (volunteer newsletter, translations, building awareness, website), project coordination, and fundraising.

Buenos Aires

Work Cooperative in La Matanza: The Cooperative, which has existed officially since the end of 2004, centers around various enterprises, containing forty work positions, the majority of which are permanent and the rest related to specific projects. In the Education Community there are forty-five families interacting daily in the process of teaching and learning, to create a community space where social connections are reconstructed through education and work.

Southwest Patagonia

High School in Patagonia: This organization seeks to promote the development of rural communities from the western Patagonia. Their mission is to create useful tools that help them to improve their quality of life through the development of their own skills.

Volunteer tasks: volunteers can get involved in every activity of the organization. They can give school support, English lessons, give assistance in the organic gardens, etc. Volunteers can also help with more institutional tasks such as graphic and web design, marketing, fundraising strategies, etc.

Formosa

Popular Library: This organization works for the community development of Pirané, Formosa and the improvement of living conditions of the local population, from a cultural, social and economic perspective. They are connstantly is in search of productive, valid alternatives to better the quality of life of members of the community in both rural and urban areas. Some of their prjects are: literacy training to combate poverty, training oriented towards women older than 14 years old (Tailoring and Fashion, Haircutting, Horticulture), production of white mulberry, breeding of silk worms, very small production of yarn and silk artisan products.

Volunteer tasks: volunteers with experience and knowledge in agriculture and marketing of rural products are required. They also need help with the organization of recreational activities for children who assist to the library.

Buenos Aires

Art School: This organization is a NYC-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that creates, develops and supports innovative arts-related projects. Its first endeavor was an art school, founded in February of 2003 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The school provides scholarships for professional-level fine arts instruction to talented students of all socio-economic backgrounds between the ages of twelve and eighteen.

Volunteer tasks: Qualified volunteers could participate in a number of programs that the organization is developing, such as fundraising, translations, communication, event planning and project coordination.

Arts and Photography: To give low income kids the opportunity of expressing their feelings and providing a space of creativity and expression.This organization has photography workshops for excluded teenagers, giving them a camera to work with and arranging exhibits and sales of their work.

Volunteer tasks: volunteers are needed to help with fundraising strategies, translations, grant research, and if the volunteer is qualified they can also carry out photography workshops.

Literacy and Reading organization

This organization works to increase the number of children from 0 to 5 years old that benefit from the foundation's literacy programs. It also works to strengthen the family literacy programs for children in this age range while expanding the types of institutions where they implement their project in order to amplify our actions in community centers, soup-kitchens, libraries, and hospitals. They offer literacy programs to 40,000 children, distributing among them, 126,000 new books.

This organization needs volunteers interested in education and literacy that are willing to help develop fundraising strategies, research, administrative tasks, and grant writing. Volunteers need to have an intermediate-advanced level of Spanish.

Political empowerment

This is a non-party foundation that promotes the formation and development of a new political leadership, based on a defined country vision, a set of shared values, principles and conduct. Their aim is to provide support and assistance to politicians that have a true commitment and sense of responsibility.

This organization needs volunteers interested in public affairs and fundraising to assist them with grant writing and research. Volunteers need to have an advanced level of Spanish.

Pediatric Plastic Surgeries

This organization represents the common efforts of a group of patients' parents and professionals who aim at providing a comprehensive and caring solution to children who suffer from pathologies within the area of pediatric plastic surgery (cleft palates), in one single place which should be appropriate and of high scientific quality.

Volunteers can work in fundraising, communications, marketing and research for the organization. Volunteers need to have an inter-mediate to advanced Spanish level.

Buenos Aires

HIV/AIDS organization: This is an Argentine organization that since 1989 has worked tirelessly in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Our philosophy is that HIV/AIDS is not only an infectious disease but also an important social challenge requiring support from the entire community for those living with the disease.

Pre-Med or Medical students are needed for research and health prevention and education projects. Volunteers need to have an advanced level of Spanish.

Mendoza 

Malnutrition Prevention: This organization aims to eradicate malnutrition in Argentina beginning in Mendoza to later expand it to Latin America and the rest of the world. They work with two centers: the Recovery Center for Infant Malnutrition and the Prevention Centrerfor Infant Malnutrition. In the first one, hospitalization is offered for the kids; the second one is a prevention centre where the whole family receives an integral attention.

Volunteers can help in many different areas of the organization. Pre-Med, medical students, social workers, psychologists, pediatricians, nutritionists, etc. Volunteers might work in Mendoza and in other centers throughout Argentina (Buenos Aires, Misiones, Córdoba, etc.)

Building organization in Buenos Aires: This organization seeks to contribute towards human advancement and family consolidation, by means of actions that facilitate access to a decent home. This is done through programs aimed at low income families, and is based on the interested parties taking the leading roles; on their efforts and on their help to each other.

Volunteer groups are ideal and needed to contribute to various building projects that can be realized over the course of one-two weeks. Ideal for spring break volunteer trips or short-term volunteer projects

Santa Fe

Women Rights organization: This foundation is an organization born of a desire to work for progress in all areas related to protection of the vital components of life. The Foundation's work goes beyond simple issues of gender. Gender equality and rights, of course, are part of the basis of this organization, but its work transcends traditional debates surrounding differences between the male and the female. Everything this organization does is based upon a belief in the essential value of life, of justice, of education, and of the possibility for growth. It´s work seeks to benefit those who have been denied these basic rights for so long.

This organization is located in the province of Santa Fe in Argentina and needs volunteers interested in gender issues and reproductive health and willing to conduct research as well as carry out various tasks for the organization. Volunteers need to have an inter-mediate to advanced level of Spanish.

Work cooperative in La Matanza: The Cooperative, which has existed officially since the end of 2004, centers around various enterprises, containing forty work positions, the majority of which are permanent and the rest related to specific projects. In the Education Community there are forty-five families interacting daily in the process of teaching and learning, to create a community space where social connections are reconstructed through education and work.

Volunteers with an interest or background experience in Micro-credit are needed to provide administrative assistance as well as accompany local artisans in their productive projects. Research, communication, or marketing skills are needed.

Salta

La estrella community (Eastern Salta)

This foundation has been working for more than 10 years helping isolated communities and has been working with the indigenous community La Estrella since 1999. Redes Solidarias is a bridge between organisms, foundations, companies and people that want to help these communities.

Rosario de Lerma (Western Salta)

This is an opportunity to work in a rural community in north-western Salta with a local school. Volunteers would live nearby the school for a period of weeks assisting the school in everything from educational activities to recreational activities. This is an important inter-cultural exchange too.

This organization contributes to the strengthening and healing of Argentine institutions, to foster within each citizen a commitment and respect for all fundamental rights and to defend the most vulnerable groups of our society.

Volunteers interested in human rights and/or studying law are needed. Grant writing, fund-raising, and research are possible responsibilities. Volunteers need to have an advanced level of Spanish.