Revival Programme

  Argentina

• Other Cities in Argentina: 
Rural Areas
• Buenos Aires: 
Buenos Aires
• Cordoba: 
Cordoba
• All Other Regions of Argentina: 
Mendoza,  Santa Fe

Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months, 7-12 months, 1-2 years and over 2 years

Description: With the Revival Programme, Responde offers a unique volunteering experience not at all representative of the increasingly more globalized images of life in Latin America. The mere exposure to the communities with which Responde works is an extraordinarily enriching and eye-opening experience, to work with them is an altogether incomparable one.

To work towards a common goal with our diverse villages and their respective communities constitutes a unique platform to develop personal, professional and academic skills in organization, communication and solidarity.

The Revival Programme establishes an important balance between hands-on experience and theoretical awareness. Volunteers spend an intensive period of training in Buenos Aires before embarking on their volunteer placement as we believe that in order to do a task well, one must be aware both of its importance and the requirements of the chosen activity.

The contribution of volunteers is highly valued at Responde and the volunteer can expect to develop a profound understanding of the contribution that their input has made in the greater scheme of Responde's mission.

Highlights: In a time and place where assistance is the only way to tend to an emergency, Responde concerns itself for the future of small rural villages.

This Calling allows us to reach each village and invite them to work for their tomorrow, because we are sure that among all of them who receive assistance today, there are a great number who are ready and willing to commit themselves to make the necessary effort to change their present.

Qualifications: Depending on the activity chosen, we will value volunteers who are confident, outgoing, hard-working and take initiative, who are sociable, self-driven and adaptable to new situations and people.

A level of Spanish is necessary but due to the nature of certain tasks this will not necessarily have to be especially advanced.

Cost in US$: from 350

University students who are part of a year abroad programme have special arrangements for costs depending on their universities and should contact their Year Abroad Officer for details.   

Volunteers thinking of arriving in pairs or groups should contact the Revival Programme Coordinator as discounts will be offered if the volunteers are to share accommodation. Partial or full grants may be awarded in exceptional circumstances.

Salary / Pay: The Revival Programmes volunteers can also benefit from free Tango and Yoga classes made available by our sponsors in recognition of their work. Discounted accommodation is also offered by our sponsors during The Introductory Phase and The Closure Phase of the placement.

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: The volunteer must be confident, outgoing, laidback, self-driven, self-motivated and adaptable to new situations and people, with a desire to have an experience which is incredibly enriching and by no means typical. Most importantly, the volunteer must be open to the affectionate inhabitants who love showing their village to strangers and show a great curiosity for our volunteers and where they are from.

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Argentina in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 2-4

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Exit Debriefing Abroad

Responde's Mission Statement: Responde is a non-government organization (NGO) which works to promote the restoration and rejuvenation of rural Argentine communities that are at risk of extinction through depopulation or in grave crisis, motivating the villages' inhabitants to become protagonists in this initiative.

Year Founded: 1999