Casa Del Niño

LENGUA-LANGUAGE: Spanish

Building a garden for greywater catchment

The Dorothy Byrne Casa Del Niño is a community-led project in the small rural village of La Independencia, Guatemala that offers food, shelter, security and education for disadvantaged youth and children from the areas around the town of Malacatan. Seres has been working with our partner project – Solace International – to provide environmentally sound, ecologically sustainable infrastructure, buildings and agricultural systems that will support the Centre.

YOU and Volunteering

Our current projects at the Casa Del Niño include:

Setting up educational aquaponics

* Constructing an Earthbag Guest House
* Establishing a permaculture and aquaponics garden to support the Casa Del Niño’s
* Designing and constructing a playhouse and recreation area for the children using recycled materials
All volunteers are asked to pay a small stipend that covers project expenses (food, accomodation etc) and helps us to purchase materials for the projects.
The cost per volunteer is 800 Quetzals per person for 5 days (Monday to Friday).

Included in this cost is:

* Transport to and from Malacatan to Antigua.
* All meals, filtered water and snacks catered for.
* Accommodation
* Tools and materials for the project
* Recreational Activities including: river bathing, white water tubing, visit to Malacatan township.

If you are interested in volunteering, please email our volunteer co-ordinator at jaz@projectseres.org

Visit our Flickr photo stream to see photos of our volunteers on site at the Casa del Niño.