Affordable Construction Programs with IVHQ
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IVHQ supports building and renovation projects all around the world. We encourage our volunteers to work with locals to both learn and share valuable skills. Improving local infrastructure is a tangible and long lasting way to benefit the community. It can include building brand new structures, renovating existing buildings that are unsafe, or participating in civil infrastructure initiatives.
Past volunteers have helped construct schools, orphanages, community centers and recreational centers. The tasks involved will vary according to location, project, community needs, and skill set. Safety is always a concern, and volunteers will never be asked to perform tasks that could be dangerous to them.
In order to better prepare, we encourage our volunteers to participate in an interactive pre-departure training on what it means to be a responsible volunteer.
Below are a list of countries that offer building volunteer programs with IVHQ.
- Argentina: Programs begin every Monday and last 1 to 24 weeks. After an orientation, you are placed in your project in Cordoba Province in the town of Villa Allende.
- Bali: Programs begin every first and third Monday and last 1-12 weeks. After an orientation, you are placed in or near the cultural center of Ubud.
- Colombia - Bogota: Programs begin every first and third Monday and last 1-24 weeks. After an orientation, you'll be placed in the city or the surrounding suburbs.
- Costa Rica: Programs begin every first and third Monday and last 1-24 weeks. Volunteers are mostly in and around San Jose, but can be placed all over the country.
- Fiji: Programs begin every first and third Monday and last 1-12 weeks. Projects are based in and around the capital city of Suva.
- Ghana: Programs begin every first and third Monday and last 1-24 weeks. Projects are based in townships and villages in and around Accra.
- Guatemala: Programs begin every Monday and last 1-24 weeks. Projects are located in the colonial city of Antigua and surrounding towns and villages.
- Laos: Programs begin every Monday and last 1-12 weeks. Volunteers are placed in the capital city of Vientiane and Sisattanak.
- Madagascar: Programs begin every Monday and last 2-24 weeks. Volunteers are based on the island of Nosy Komba, 15 to 25 minutes by boat from the larger island of Nosy Be.
- Peru - Cusco: Programs begin every Monday and last 1-24 weeks. Programs are located in Cusco and surrounding valleys, close to Machu Picchu.
- Peru - Lima: Programs begin every first and third Monday and last 1-24 weeks. Programs are located in Lima, the capital city.
- Philippines: Programs begin every Monday and last 1 week to 6 months. Placements are in and around the Calinan District, Davao where volunteer orientation and general administration is carried out by a partner organization.
- Sri Lanka: Programs begin every first and third Monday and last 1-24 weeks. Building projects include temple reconstruction in and around the sacred city of Kandy.
- Thailand: Programs begin every first and third Monday and last 1-12 weeks. Orientation and most placements are in located in and around the northern region of Chiang Rai.
- Uganda: Programs begin every first and third Monday and last 1-24 weeks. The program is based in Kitende, just outside the capital city of Kampala.
- Portugal: Programs begin every first and third Monday and last 1-24 weeks. The program is based in Portugal's capital city, Lisbon.