Teaching English to Protect the Amazon Jungle

Teaching English to Protect the Amazon Jungle

Introduction

Our background (Michael and Lisa)

We arrived in Quito in February 2007 to spend the final two months of our gap year travel. We intended to spend one of these months volunteering, and had not pre-arranged any volunteer work until we arrived. There are numerous volunteer options in Ecuador, and after two days of making enquiries to various volunteer organisations, we chose to arrange our placement with Ecotrackers.

Having taught English to children in South Africa and Cambodia during our gap year we expressed our preference to teach English at schools in a rural location in the Amazon Basin.