VIMEX IV - Transforming lives - CEDES
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About the project
VIMEX IV - Transforming lives - CEDES
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Our partner is a non-profit organization that offers growth alternatives to teenagers and young people in poverty, violence or abandonment situation. The Organization has already working for 57 years, nowadays attend to 40 internal children and 100 external children. Their mission is to create a positive impact that is reflected in the children´s behavior for improving their lives.
💼 What the programme involves
Design and implementation of intervention strategies.
Accompaniment in general activities.
Assistance to internal children.
Five days a week, eight hours a day
🏠 Accommodation on site
🍲 Food
Meals will be provided by the organization.
📍 About the location
Guanajuato is at about 4 hours by bus from Mexico City. In the state of Guanajuato, you can visit touristic cities like: San Miguel de Allende or Dolores Hidalgo.
🎒 Leisure activities
Leon is a middle-sized city that offers different possibilities to go to the cinema, restaurants, the downtown. There are also possibilities to visit other cities at one or two hours away from León. You can go to Guanajuato, San Miguel de Allende, Querétaro, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosi, as well as other small cities.
⚠️ Requirements
The work will be carried out with the children and teenagers, so the volunteers should be patient, flexible, creative, tolerant, dynamic, responsible, and willing to learn and develop new activities. Additionally, they should bring:
• Positive attitude towards life
• Ability to communicate easily
• Compassion
• Self-confidence
• Ability to analyze situations and solve problems
• Adaptability
• High level of motivation
• Leadership qualities
• Willingness to work in teams
🤝 Meeting point
The organization will pick up the volunteers at the airport.
ℹ️ Additional information
Participation fees are 6000 pesos per month (bank payment of desired participation fees, via WISE).
Volunteers can ask the organization to deposit them on the project website, for €15 (to be paid in advance).
Payment is calculated on a monthly basis (e.g. project lasting one and a half months = fees corresponding to two months).
Min 2 months
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
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01/01/2023 → 31/12/2023
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01/01/2022 → 31/12/2022
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31/12/2025 → 30/12/2026
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01/01/2024 → 30/12/2024
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05/10/2018 → 31/12/2019
VIMEX4AUTO-EXTAUTO-EXTAUTO-EXT
31/12/2024 → 30/12/2025
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
19–28 years old
Solidarity donation
6000.00 MXN ≈ 289 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Mexico Peso (MXN / Mex$)
Exchange rate
1 MXN = 0.048171 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
Timezone
Central Standard Time
Local time: 21:19 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken