Ecuador

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 Job Description Details
Agroscan is a Strat Up dedicated to research The Applicant will work in agricultural Location : Coworking StartUps,
and development in the agricultural sector, and Biotechnikigal Research and Quito, Ecuador
through precision agriculture integrating Development of methodologies for
different methodologies such as the use of big Duration: 4 - 12 weeks
flora species management. Another
data, algorithms developed within the job is a technical visit to obtain Availability : All year
company, and machine learning in order to
information on crops. Providing Lodge : Yes
increase the production of crops and decrease
the cost of production. Food: Yes
Salary: No
Addtional Information
Working hours: 6 hours/day
Managing of agricultural softwares as Working days: 5 days/week
AgroScan ArGIS, Phyton, R, etc
Language: English or spanish
agroscan.ec

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 Bellavista del Pedregal is a family project led
by women, dairy products and typical food
from the mountains are offered. Its objective
is to offer quality products at affordable
prices, aimed at families and friends, where
the work of farmers and ranchers is visible. It
also focuses on making known this corner of
the world that has incredible beauty and
above all, unique products with a lot of history.
Bellavista del
Pedregal
@bellavistadelped
regal
Job Description
Afinity with nature and work in the
field, all the work is practical and
multifaceted. The position is only
accompanying and assisting the
worker in charge.
Farm Milking: There are two milkings,
at 5 a.m. and at 3 p.m. You can attend
one or both. Feed and care for animals,
supply balanced animals. Clean up the
whereabouts, dairy processing,
preparation, packaging and
distribution of dairy products.
The intern will visit “Valley´s farm” one
or two times (every 15 days), where
moor cheeses are produced. In this
place, there are horses, deer, moor
rabbits, and other attractions.
Details
Location : San Miguel del Pedregal,
via the Cotopaxi National Park
Duration: 3 - 12 weeks
Availability : All year
Providing Lodge : Yes, in a cabin for 4
people. It has a kitchen, bathroom,
living room and two bedrooms.
Food:Lunch only on Saturdays and
Sundays.Milk, cheese, yogurt and
eggs will be supplied by the company
Salary: No
Working hours: 5 hours/day
Working days: 5 days/week
Language: English or spanish
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Medium-sized farms, are dedicated to the
production of cocoa and various other tropical
crops.
The Calderón farm is dedicated to raising
small poultry, pork and tilapia production
projects.
The Sebastián farm is dedicated to cocoa
production and drying.
Job Description
All work is practical, physically
demanding. Field work depends on the
season: Phytosanitary and formative
pruning, fertilization, pest and disease
control, cleaning and harvesting.
Addtional Information
Yellow fever vaccination is
required.
Dengue vaccine is required if you
come from December to May.
In the afternoons you can visit
other farms and learn about the
production of banana and cocoa in
the laboratory, as well as
chocolates. And the research and
analysis of soils, milk, and others in
the MAG and INIAP institutes.
Details
Location : Recinto Cuatro Manga,
sector la Gudelia and Zapotal parish,
Recinto San Gerardo Tarira
Duration: 4 - 48 weeks
Availability : All year
Providing Lodge : Yes
Food: Yes, one per day. The student
has space to prepare the rest of his or
her meals
Salary: No
Working hours: 8 hours/day
Working days: 6 days/week
Language: English, Italian or
spanish
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Finca La Verraquera Santa Ana is a project to
support smallholder farmers and focuses on
the production of beef. It is also ecological
tourism as well as sugar cane, banana,
jackfruit, and other fruit plantations. The
water source came from the same place as
the farm.
Job Description
Planting, maintaining crops and taking
care of animal.
Addtional Information
Yellow fever vaccination is
required.
The monthly fee of $250 u.s.
dollars per person, includes food,
lodging, and visits to the tourist
sites in Nanegal.
Additional visits can be made to
nearby coffee, panela, or cocoa
farms.
Groups of 5 to 12 people are
welcome.
Details
Location : Nanegal, Ecuador
Duration: 1 - 12 months
Availability : All year
Providing Lodge : Yes, view additional
information
Food: Yes, 3 meals per day, see
additional information
Salary: No
Working hours: 8 hours/day
Working days: 5 days/week
Language: English, French or
spanish

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 Huma is a small company that makes
handmade chocolate. The process begins in
the cocoa almonds that come from several
places in Ecuador. They work with fine aroma
cocoa selected from different places such as
Yasuní, Pichincha, Cotopaxi, and more.
@humachocolate
Job Description
Almost all the work is practically such
as; Selection of raw materials, making
chocolate dough, the realization of
chocolates and cakes, managing
purchasing, administrative activities,
marketing, etc
Addtional Information
Yellow fever vaccination is required.
Details
Location : Conocoto - Vista Hermosa
Duration: 3- 48 weeks
Availability : All year
Providing Lodge : Yes, depending on
the time of year and location, you have
to pay between US$30 and US$266
per month.
Food: Yes
Salary: No
Working hours: 8 - 10 hours/day
Working days: 5 days/week
Language: English or basic
spanish
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 It´s a medium-sized (10 ha) organic or
biodynamic farm dedicated to the production
of food and free-range eggs (happy hens). The
farm maintains a harmonious balance
between the animals, the garden, and the
forest. The motto of the farm is "human and
animal welfare" and we prove it. Chickens on
this farm can move freely, stretch their wings,
take dirt baths, go out in the sun and make
friends.
Granja Orgánica
El Motilón
@granja_el_motilon
Job Description
All work is practical, physically
demanding.
Soil preparation and planting.
Fieldwork depends on the season. In
winter they are dedicated to sowing
and in summer to harvesting.
Feeding and caring for animals:
Agro-forestry maintenance.
Cleaning of weeds in the garden and
the reforested forest. Reforestation.
Construction and maintenance of
chicken coops and facilities: Feeding
the animals. Soil preparation and
planting. Egg collection. Caring for
animals.
Addtional Information
Yellow fever vaccination is
required.
Details
Location : Farm: Atahualpa Parish,
Pichincha Province. Store: De las
Orquídeas E11-146 y E11B Quito.
Duration: 3 - 48 weeks
Availability : All year
Providing Lodge : Yes, in an eco-
friendly cabin for four people.
Food: Yes, the student must prepare
their own food. The owner provides all
the inputs
Salary: No
Working hours: 7 hours/day
Working days: 5 days/week
Language: English, german or
spanish
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 Is an agribusiness that produces functional Job Description Details
honey conficts (nutritional contribution) and Management of bees and honeycombs.
Location : Avenida General Enriquez
made as homemade Canario. Offering Production of products based on what is
Isla San Cristobal, Quito
innovatibe amd healthy products in the extracted from the hive. Sale and
Educadorian food industry, and they are the marketing of products. Duration: 4 - 48 weeks
first to produce flavors and textures of non- Availability : January - October
traditional nougats. The production method is Providing Lodge : Yes
handcrafted. They make premium quality
Food: Yes
products with natural ingredients.
Salary: Yes, only if the person has
previous experience in bees (200
dollars/month)
Mieles del Campo Addtional Information Working hours: 10 hours/day
Working days: 5 days/week
@mielesdelcampoec Yellow fever vaccination is
required. Language: English or Spanish

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 Elizabeth A
rellano
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT EXPRO?

Sarai Vega

Intern at
Bellavis
Pedregal ta del

I'm pretty grateful with IAAS and "Bellavista del

Intern at Milifarms Pedregal" for letting me being part of the dairy
business at the most important region of it in
Ecuador and learn trough the experience day by
I always dreamed with the opportunity to finish day..
my career doing an internship outside of my
country, and thanks to IAAS I had the best
experience I ever imagined.

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 Details
Tamandua Ecological Reserve and Yannocha
Location : Pastaza, Santa Clara, San
Rescue Center seek to preserve the natural Job Description
wonders that the Amazon shares with people Jose, Samasunchi
who have been in contact with it. Both spaces Participant will work with animal such as Duration: 4 - 6 weeks
aim to secure the jungle, get people involved feeding, cleaning, rehabilitation, Availability : All year
in caring for nature and make them aware of maintenance or depending on
Providing Lodge : Yes with cost 155
the fundamental aspects of life. participant career and availability.
US Dollars/week
Food: Yes
Salary: No
Working hours: 6 hours/day

Addtional Information Working days: 5 days/week

Language: English, Spanish,
Yellow fever vaccination is
French, Germany
required.

www.yanacocharescue.org
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 Milifarms is a family-run project directed by Job Description Details
women. It is located in Santa Rosa In the roses greenhouse : soil analysis,
Cusubamba. It produce summer flower and planting standards and grafting Location : Santa Rosa Cusubamba,
small roses. The variety of roses and summer varieties, take care of the plants : canton Cayambe
flower are : White Majolica, Pink Majolica, Hot weeding, buds, pruning and Duration: 4 - 48 weeks
Majolica, Eva, Suncity, Red Mikado, Rubicon, phytosanitary, bedding, fumigacion
Availability : All year
Orange Babe, Yellow Babe, Snowflake, (protection equipment and quarantine
time, product rotation, biostimulant), Providing Lodge : Yes
Viviane, Gracia, Ilse, Mambo, Blue Moon,
Porcelina, Royal Porceline and Sahara maintenance (tanks of nutrition and Food: Yes
Sensation. fertilization), cleaning, harvesting, Salary: No
In the open field of Sunflowers : sowing,
Working hours: 6 hours/day
plant care : pest management, weeds,
fertiliser, irrigation, harvesting, post- Working days: 5 days/week
harvest. Language: English or Spanish
@milifarms Post-production: selection and
separation, container charging.

Addtional Information
You need to have a medical
insurance to travel.
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ISumak Kawsay in Situ main goal is to connect
people with the nature to further understand
and deepen the strength between people and
nature. SKIS accommodate everyone whether
they are nature researchers, college students ,
or office worker that need an escape from the
big city. SKIS have carried out several
research studies such as botanical survey
studies and many more.
Job Description Details
The following activities will be carried
out at the foundation : research in flora,
Location : Mera, Pastaza
fauna, and geology (monitoring of
mammals, and registering biodiversity Duration: 4 - 48 weeks
with iNaturalist), Ecotourism (Guide the Availability: All year
reservation, Give research workshops to Providing Lodge : Yes, cost 750 US
visitors, assit with University field Dollar/ month
practice, maintenance of scientific trails Food: Yes
and transects, and maintenance of the
Salary: No
orchid garden). The applicant will work in
various activities with animals such as : Working hours: 8 hours/day
feeding, cleaning, rehabilitation. Working days: 5 days/week
Language: English, Spanish,
Addtional Information French, Germany
Yellow fever vaccination is
required.

Misumakkawsayinsitu.org
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 INEPE is a community organization that since Job Description Details
1985 has carried out permanent work to
improve the lives of young people in the The fields of action are Educational, Location : Dolorosa - Quito
popular sectors of the city of Quito. INEPE research and study of native fauna and
flora of the place, renewable energy Duration: 3 - 48 weeks
promotes popular Education processes in the
South West of Quito and at the regional and projects, garden (planting and Availability : All year
national levels, through its different projects harvesting), composting (measuring the
Providing Lodge : Yes
such as Educational projects, local temperature, humidity, and other
development, research, communication, factors), and water treatment plant. You Food: Yes
teacher training, and community health. can enter any of the fields of action. You
Salary: No
can intervene in all activities or specific
activities. Working hours: 6 hours/day

Working days: 5 days/week

INEPE
Language: English or basic
inepe.net Addtional Information spanish
Yellow fever vaccination is required.
You should have clothing for both cold
and warm weather

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 Lennart Aert
s
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT EXPRO?

icolas Andrade
N

Intern at
INEPE

I was in Ecuador for a very short period but I

discovered all the beauties the country has to
Intern at HUMA offer. I can only recommend an exchange like
Chocolate this!..

Joining the Exchange Program of IAAS was a

breakthrough in my life because I could learn a
lot of new things in such a short time also, I met
amazing people through my journey

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Contact of National Commitee

IAAS Ecuador

@iaasecuador

ecuador@iaasworld.org

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