CDCA Volunteer Opportunities

in Nicaragua...

You can come and volunteer with the CDCA. We need help in Nicaragua. If you are skilled in agriculture, medical fields, business management, medicinal herbs or appropriate technology we can use your help. We aren’t. While we’ve gained a lot of experience on the ground, we mainly we see ourselves as a conduit for resources from other parts of the world to hook up with needs here. Before arriving, long-term volunteers should read our reading packet to better gain an understanding of Nicaragua and daily life here.

Currently, we are looking for someone to fill our Volunteer Coordinator position from January 2012 - February 2013.

If you are not skilled in the above areas, we do accept “unskilled” volunteers with a minimum commitment of 6 months.  (We charge a per diem to all volunteers.)  

Medical volunteers help us learn more and also see more patients. We can use nurses, PA's, nurse practitioners, doctors, dentists, hygienists, optometrists, ophthalmologists, as well as other medical care givers. Professionals come with health brigades and hold free clinics. They also teach and train our health care staff.

Besides medical brigades, we host volunteer delegations which come to help with construction projects (such as the Spinning Plant)and other endeavors as they arise. In addition to a per diem charge of $65.00 to cover room, board, and transportation, volunteer groups also include "project funds" in their trip fees, which are used to purchase their own work project's supplies: medicines, shovels, cement, wheelbarrows, etc., as well as the costs of any tourist outings.

We expect groups to work as an act of friendship with the Nicaraguan communities. These groups will have opportunities to listen to what Nicaraguans have to say and see some of Nicaragua's beauty as well as its poverty. As much as volunteers want to help Nicaraguans, the greatest work they can do is within themselves.  As they see, hear, and touch the lives of Nicaraguans they will change. What will last the longest, and what will make the most difference to the people here is the work volunteers will do when they return home.

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