Volunteer

Our Ambassadors are a network of dedicated volunteers across the U.S., and around the globe, who advocate for Safe Passage, fundraise, organize mailings, provide administrative assistance, participate in special events, and forge new friendships across the nation and throughout the world. Contact us to learn more about current U.S. volunteer opportunities.

If you have at least 5 weeks of time, you may work as a classroom assistant, as a member of our administrative team, or with our Adult Education Program.

Our short- and long-term volunteer program is for individuals looking to spend at least 5 weeks of service working with our students and interacting with our staff. Various opportunities are available to suit your interests, abilities, and availability. Volunteers live in historic Antigua and travel together each day to our program site in Guatemala City.

• • Basic Spanish recommended.
  • At least 5 weeks of service.
  • Regular business hours, Monday-Friday.
  • Work in a supportive or administrative role to help us reach program goals.
  • Engage with our students and enhance your teaching experience.

If you are able to commit to 6 months or more at our program, you may work as an English teacher, tutor, health educator or program coordinator. Long-term volunteers live in historic Antigua and commute together each day to our program site in Guatemala City.

• Intermediate or advanced Spanish recommended.
• 6 months or more of service.
• Regular business hours, Monday-Friday.
• Qualifications and experience to meet position-specific needs.
• Work as an English teacher, tutor, health educator or program coordinator.
• Engage with our students and enhance your teaching experience.
• Develop professional skills while living and working abroad.

• Flexibility and willingness to work where the need is the greatest.
• Ability to learn and adapt.
• 18 years of age or older.
• Successful completion of mandatory background screening.
• Basic level of spoken Spanish (intermediate or advanced recommended for long-term volunteers).

• $50 application fee paid online at time of application (mandatory background screening).
• $100 administration fee paid upon arrival in Guatemala (orientation, Safe Passage shirt and name tag).
• $13/week bus fee (private transportation to and from Antigua to our program site in Guatemala City).
• Medical or travel insurance with emergency evacuation coverage (obtained by volunteer).
• Living and travel expenses dependent on individual dates, arrangements, and preferences.

Safe Passage hosts ongoing orientation sessions for new national and international volunteers; most often, these sessions occur on the first and third Mondays of each month. Volunteers will work at the project in Guatemala City until the end of the program year in November. Contact us now to begin planning your five-week term of service, as we want you to join us: volunteers@safepassage.org

• Read our Volunteer Handbook.
• Complete and submit appropriate application for short-term or long-term service, as well as your resume.
• Ask 2 references to complete this recommendation form and send it as a PDF file to volunteers@safepassage.org.
• Pay the one-time, non-refundable $50 application fee online (please select ‘Volunteer Application Fee’ as the designation). Checks can be made payable to Safe Passage and mailed to our U.S. office: 49 Farm View Dr, Suite 302, New Gloucester, ME 04260.