Jardín Botánico de Cuenca

Name: Jardín Botánico de Cuenca
Start: 2025-01-14
End: 2028-01-16
Location: Cuenca, Ecuador

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Ecuador Environment Environment Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Fundación VASE (Voluntariado para la Ayuda Social del Ecuador) is a non-profit organization, created in 2008. We work to strengthen intercultural relations, promote volunteer social aid and inspire the commitment of a global citizenship.
We believe in a world full of solidarity, social and personal development, as well as respect for diversity. Through volunteering we build new generations with values dedicated to improving global social conditions.

💼 What the programme involves

Aims of the project:

The main objectives are conservation, environmental education and research; On average, around 2000 visitors are received monthly. The project maintains 7 permanent staff members to maintain green areas but lacks environmental guides for guided tours.

Project activities:

The project has permanent staff that takes care of the plants and installations, they also offer nature conservation and education events for schools and children to raise awareness.

Volunteer's tasks:

The volunteers will develop a personal project which they will propose, as well as taking care of activities assigned to them such as: visitor management, guided tours, nocturnal events, biocommerce markets, agricultural work, upkeep and cleaning of installations, working in the entomology laboratory taking care of the collection and plastering of insects.