Ecotrackers online in English

7 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 . The project We were assigned a specific project titled ‘Teaching English to Protect the Amazon Jungle’. The main objective being to teach children specific vocabulary relating to the Amazon Jungle e.g names of plant, animal and insect species that l...

Agnes Falck In Atillo reporte The community Atillo is a community about 2 hours by bus from Riobamba . The altitude is 3450 metres . There is only one road and it stretches between Riobamba and Macas. There are two bus companies to go with, Riobamba and Unidos. Every day pass about seven busses in each direction. The community includes 650 persons spread over 20 kilometres . There are three schools and two churches. The landscape is nice with a lot of mountains and grass. It is cold. Only if the sun is shining in the day there is an opportunity to sweet. The rest of the time you will need a lot of clothes. It will be about 8 degrees Celsius in you room by night. Don’t forget your sunscreen every day though. And boots and rain clothes. I went to Atillo to teach English in the school and take photos of the landscape. I slept in a cabin and ate in the only restaurant in Atillo. It is run by the intelligent and strong woman Dora, her ...

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 The new volunteer´s house at border Ecuador-Peru in the Morona River Posted by bjarke-stories at 4:22 PM 0 comments the sunset in the jungle Posted by bjarke-stories at 4:17 PM ...