Why volunteer with InsightArgentina
Our achievements
The value of volunteering
Becoming a Social Ambassador
Why volunteer with InsightArgentina
Volunteering in Argentina combines travel, professional experience, life lessons, and an opportunity to give back to a community in need. Working as a volunteer with InsightArgentina you can look forward to gaining:
- Unique perspectives about Argentine culture, life, and the most pressing social issues.
- Language immersion and instruction.
- Access to a network of more than 60 non-profit organizations throughout Argentina.
- Help your host organization fulfill its mission and goals, acting an added resource to the programs and projects that they implement.
- International volunteer experience, an invaluable addition to any CV or resume.
- Access to an international network of volunteers.
- Opportunities to keep helping after you return home.
Our achievements
More than
500 volunteers placed in more than
30 non-profit organizations since the end of 2005.
- Our program donated over USD 30,000 to the host organizations.
- More than 60 volunteers have become Social Ambassadors or Donors for their organizations upon return home to their respective countries, raising more than USD 30,000.
- Volunteers from more than 30 countries around the world
- Volunteers from all walks of life with a true commitment to volunteer work.
Read more about our program here.
The Value of Volunteering
Volunteerism is the first step in the path of continued support and promotion of causes that better our society. In this way, a
virtuous cycle of commitment is created. Our goal is to benefit from this cycle, granting a variety of tools that generate
new ways to give, be it in the form of volunteer work, raising awareness, fundraising, or other activities.
"Working with HelpArgentina I learned how effective and rewarding volunteering could potentially be. While the member organizations are well established and well organized, the staff always pushes for growth and improvement. The volunteers are given genuine responsibility and the freedom to implement their own suggestions", says Heath, who volunteered in Buenos Aires.
Becoming a Social Ambassador
Many past volunteers maintain the affiliation with their organization and continue to promote growth within the Argentine social sector by joining HelpArgentina's Social Ambassadors program.
We cultivate long-term relationships between the volunteers and their host-organizations so that the link between the two will grow even after the volunteers have returned home to their respective countries.
"One of the benefits of working through HelpArgentina is the opportunity to act as a Social Ambassador for the organization. Upon returning to the U.S. this year, a fellow volunteer and I co-hosted a small benefit in San Diego, CA to promote further awareness for HelpArgentina and to raise more money to help combat the looming bronchitis outbreak expected to hit the poorer areas of Buenos Aires this Winter. By being able to sponsor benefits back home and to easily maintain contact with fellow Ambassadors, HelpArgentina truly does offer its volunteers to really make a difference. And with hundreds of small partner organizations similar to the one I went throughout the country, I know I am not alone in my experience." Shane, volunteer in BA, January - March 2007
If you want to learn more about the Social Ambassadors activities and events, please click here.
