Conserve and reforest the Amazon rainforest, help local communities to develop sustainable businesses that work in harmony with their surroundings, and improve the structures and facilities of jungle schools.

Based in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador the Amazon Conservation and Community Development Project offers volunteers the opportunity to work with local communities with a variety of creative tasks and hands-on activities, helping to education jungle communities to live and prosper in harmony with their environment.

With the assistance of our volunteers, we can give local communities the tools and knowledge to allow them create successful business, protect and conserve the Amazon jungle and build and equip new facilities in local schools to give the students the means to learn and progress.

The Amazon Conservation and Community Developent Project needs creative and passionate volunteers who are keen to make a sustainable impact on jungle communities making the transition from tribal communities to modern Ecuador. The project is suitable for first-time and experienced volunteers looking for a true volunteering experience in South America.

Continuity is at the heart of our volunteer projects, offering a structure for both you and the communities you help. Currently, local communities are using time consuming agricultural techniques which have a large negative impact on the environment. Volunteers help local community members have to make their businesses more productive, to give them a better chance in urban markets. We believe that community members should be in control of how their businesses operate. Volunteers assist with the marketing and selling of produce and products, from poster design, to making and runnning stalls, and finding locations for the community members to sell their products at a fair price. Our work is focused on the implementing of farming techniques that conserve the Amazon, and offer families opportunities which will reduce logging, allowing us to conserve and reforest. Our work in the schools gives teaches the facilities and equipment to provide a meaningful education.

Volunteering with the Amazon Conservation and Community Development Project gives you the chance to put something back into the areas you visit while getting to know and understand a jungle community and allows a rare insight into how the locals really live.