The Sacha Warmi Foundation is looking for volunteers to support its programs and projects in the Ecuadorian Amazon. More specifically, we are looking for volunteers in the following areas:

– Conducting interviews with doctors, patients, midwives, shamans and other traditional medicine specialists to support the intercultural health projects of the Sacha Warmi Foundation.
– Support communities in making inventories of medicinal and other culturally important plants for their health programs and local health workers.
– Assist with project management.

– Assist biodiversity management programs in indigenous communities.
– Develop educational materials on environmental, cultural, health, food, ecology, conservation and other topics for the Sacha Warmi Foundation projects with the communities.
– To train in techniques for the production of seedlings and the sustainable management of plants, plant trees, reforest and regenerate deteriorated ecosystems.
– Assist with the maintenance and care of the nursery, the medicinal garden and the biocultural garden.
– Carry out landscaping work at the Sacha Warmi center.
– Assist with project management.

– Research innovative social and economic entrepreneurship and identify the founders of these initiatives
– Support organized groups in administration and accounting management.
– Assist with project management.

– To help develop material that can support the transmission of knowledge and cultural awareness (videos, booklets, brochures, games…)
– Edit and review articles and blogs to share on our website and social networks
– Maintenance and updating of Web page and Facebook Page.
– Update and energize Sacha Warmi’s social networks.
– Assist with project management.
Volunteer Profile
- Have a university degree
- > 20 years of age
- Previous work experience > 6 months
- Previous experience in tropical regions
- Autonomous persons with initiatives, flexible, participative, committed, creative, and with an interest and sensitivity towards indigenous cultures.
- Minimum stay: 2 months.
- Financial contribution: $200/month. They have a comfortable house, equipped kitchen, internet.
How to apply?
If you are interested in volunteering with the Sacha Warmi Foundation, send us your CV and a short motivation letter to info@sachawarmi.org