See below for a selection of sample placements in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Please note that volunteer students must use their initiative for all the below-mentioned jobs. There are set assignments that can be full-time, and others that last 3-4 hours per day. Therefore volunteers should be adaptable to the hours required.

Education :: Social/Healthcare :: Nature

Michaela's School - Help for adolescents at risk

Location: Neighbourhood Las Flores, Buenos Aires

This project aims at helping adolescents and young adults by showing them how to re-integrate in the Argentinean society. All the persons who receive help in this project are young and find themselves in risky situations. The project offers workshops, homework support and emotional guidance, so that the youngsters feel secure and self confident enough to reintegrate in the society.

Volunteers can help in all the areas, but should be aware that the situations they may face can be strong and difficult. The minimum commitment is 8 weeks.

To Make a Difference - Support, opportunities & a hug

Location: La Boca, Buenos Aires

To Make a Difference is a social organization situated in a community centre in the middle of the famous neighborhood La Boca. Known for its soccer club, Maradona and as birthplace of the Tango, every tourist knows where to find the colorful and charming houses in Buenos Aires.

What few people know is that this neighborhood is impoverished and that few children enjoy the benefits of a complete secondary education. To show the children of La Boca that they do matter in the society, this centre offers great help and support to them and their families in the form of homework-support or a place to learn how to speak English. There is even a successful little fabric of Alfajores (a typical Argentinean biscuit). The main goal of the project is to teach young people that they can be productive human beings and that a big change in life can be caused by little differences.

Volunteers can help in wherever they want, but special help is wanted with the homework support and English classes. The minimum commitment is 4 weeks.

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A Professional Helping Hand - Human rights, support & workshops

Location: La Boca, Buenos Aires

A Professional Helping Hand is a professional communitarian association with a rich history. It is full of picturesque anecdotes and good will. It was first created in 1930 in La Boca, Buenos Aires by immigrants and it was re-founded in 1996 with a fresh renewed objective. Its aim is the defense and promotion of human, children, civil, social, politics and cultural rights of the neighborhood. They have different programs that work with children, women, advice to users and consumers, legal advice and training.

Volunteers are welcome to this project, and should have (almost) finished their career. There is a minimum commitment of 3 months.

Mom's Kitchen - A food distribution centre

Location: Buenos Aires City

Mom’s Kitchen provides about 100 homeless people with breakfast and lunch every day. The project does not only provide people in need with food, but also work on their emotional well-being and assist them with all the transactions they need to do, but of which they don’t know where or how.

Volunteers can help with the preparations and distribution of the meals, build relationships with the persons and there is also the possibility that volunteers set up new workshops. There a few resources and volunteers should prepare themselves on working in humble conditions. The minimum commitment is 6 weeks.

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A Second Chance - Helping them to reintegrate

Location: Buenos Aires City

A Second Chance is an association dedicated to the social reinsertion as well as reinsertion into the labor market of persons who have spent time in jail. They do that by dignifying the convicted and improve their family-situation through education, social orientation and formal work. There are social workshops and they provide emotional support. Its aim is to create integrative, communicational and actions of solidarity between society out and in prisons. They also work inside jais on human promotion and work training.

Volunteers can work in the field, or help the organization with the internal activities, such as public relations, organizing new projects and workshop and helping them with finding financial support. There is a minimum commitment of 4 weeks and volunteers are more than welcome.

Living Together - Hope, help & education

Location: Buenos Aires City

This project opened its doors in 1994 and since then it has been a real comfort for many people of the neighborhood where it is located. The circumstances in which the people are living are very humble and the neighborhood is often described as dangerous. However, this project is like a stream of light and gives people hope, faith and opportunities. Volunteers are very welcome and can especially help the organization with all the workshops and, very important, the English lessons. There is however, also room for own initiative and when a volunteer would like to teach the children for example how to street dance or how to speak German, they will be encouraged to set up new workshops.

The minimum commitment is 4 weeks.

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Little Angels - A new home for them

Location: Olivos, (surburb of) Buenos Aires

This NGO consists of three homes for children in the age of 3 to 13 years old and who have been infected with HIV or who are suffering from AIDS. In every home there are about 10 children living and playing together and there is a great group of volunteers who are taking care of the children. The children have all different histories and some of them are placed in this project by judges who decided that their home was no longer a suitable place to live. Some of them are placed with their brothers and sisters, some of them are sick, but overall they are just normal children who like to have fun.

Volunteers can help the children with their daily tasks or help the “professional” volunteers with taking care of the children. The project is growing and is planning to open also a home for older children who find themselves in the same circumstances. Children are quite vulnerable and attach themselves easily to the volunteers, the minimum commitment to this project is two months. Since the homes are located in the suburbs of Buenos Aires city, the school has a special HOMESTAY-family who is living close to the project.

Learning, Playing & Educating - National programme of social support

Location: Buenos Aires City

This project is part of an Argentinean NGO, which was founded on the 14 th of May, 1966 in Santa Fe, Argentina. Since then it has spread to all mayor cities in Argentina and has helped many Argentinean families and communities. It has a wide range of areas in which it provides education, emotional and financial support to children, adults, the disabled and elderly. Its goal is to help the most vulnerable part of the Argentinean society, a part of the population which is unfortunately still growing. To name some of the areas in which the project works: it provides free health care, gives sport-workshops, has professional day-cares and recreational activities for children and the elderly. It has a really nice and organized atmosphere and volunteers will enjoy a personalized introduction workshop when they start working at this project.

The minimum commitment is 2 months and volunteers will receive an official certificate from the organization itself.

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