SPONDYLUS INTERCAMBIO SOCIO-CULTURAL
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About the project
SPONDYLUS INTERCAMBIO SOCIO-CULTURAL
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
We seek to overcome their families by supporting the solution of their problems.
We have shelters for institutionalized children and shelters for children with human mobility.
ASA proposes the following objectives:
a) Seek solutions to human problems arising from poverty, to the family, to children, young people and women.
b) Assume the challenge of poverty in all its senses, deepen the knowledge of its causes and investigate how much it prevents a true integral development.
c) Encourage a true community spirit that fosters solidarity as an indispensable style to promote justice and unity among the inhabitants of the same sector
💼 What the programme involves
We assign the roles depending on their interests and abilities, where we most need their presence is in the Children's Centers with children from 1 to 3 years of age, as helpers of the educators. Games, motor development, help in feeding infants. At Casa Familia as an educator, help with homework, English, math, geography, etc. No higher education level is required.
During a typical week the volunteers come at times like 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., with the children of the children's center.
Or from 11:00 to 17:00 for school support children.
Every day, a previous planning is followed where educators and volunteers are in charge of an activity during the day.
In the morning the children are fed breakfast, the scheduled activity is performed, recreation is done, then lunch, rest and departure of the volunteer
🏠 Accommodation on site
ASA SPONDYLUS, with a capacity of 12 people, has 6 double rooms, two kitchens, two living rooms, two dining rooms, three shared bathrooms, hot water, clothes washer and unlimited internet of good quality.
VOLUNTEER DEPARTMENT, we have four double bedrooms, kitchen, dining room, two bathrooms, hot water, washing machine and internet, preference for those who want to come for a period of three months.
The monthly cost in the Spondylus House is 200 dollars of the stay and 120 meals in total 320.
🍲 Food
The volunteers have lunch and have refreshments in the children's centers or school support centers, the breakfasts and dinners are at home.
On the weekend, volunteers will take a walk to the city, they can take food shopping, such as sandwiches or cookies.
📍 About the location
We work in urban-marginal neighborhoods in northern Quito. We provide foster services to all migrant children who are not accompanied by adults. The shelters are located in slums where we work.
🎒 Leisure activities
The city of Quito is one of the most recognized tourist destinations in Latin America, for its historic center declared a world heritage site.
A few hours away are very famous excursion destinations such as Mindo located in the protective forest of Chocó, a reserve that runs through Panama, Colonbia and Ecuador.
Volunteers can go out alone or in a group of volunteers, both with the boys from the shelters and in tourism, to nearby beaches, to excursions in volcanoes and lakes that are located near Quito.
ℹ️ Additional information
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📅 Available sessions
ASA-20-SP
06/02/2020 → 31/12/2025
ASA-20-SPAUTO-EXT
01/01/2026 → 26/11/2031
ASA-19-SP
25/09/2019 → 31/12/2019
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
320.00 USD ≈ 287 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Pichincha, Ecuador
Ecuador
🌍 Location info
Local currency
United States Dollar (USD / $)
Exchange rate
1 USD = 0.895608 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
Timezone
Ecuador Time
Local time: 21:39 (12/11/2026)
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