Giant Jupiter

My boyfriend Douglas and I spent six weeks volunteering with Sustainable Roots during the summer months of 2016. We had an incredible experience working with Toni and the other volunteers creating fun activities for the kids during their summer vacation. From rock climbing to creating GIANT models of the planets from recycled materials, our time with the organisation was truly incredible. We also enjoyed teaching English in the village and taught classes twice a week to the preschool kids and every evening to the older kids. We focused our lessons around fun activities to encourage the kids to enjoy learning English whilst simultaneously improving our Spanish.

Cosanga is a beautiful place surrounded by nature and the sense of community living in such a small village made us feel really welcome and at home. We also took advantage of our proximity to the amazon basin and spent a few weekends exploring the amazon jungle.

Living in the volunteer house was great fun as we were able to cook our own meals an in the evenings we spent time getting to know the other volunteers and members of the community.

We had such an amazing time that we have already made plans to go back as soon as I graduate from University. I would recommend this organisation to anyone who is interested in volunteering overseas.