Please see our list of volunteer positions.

Whether working directly with children at our main project site or at our early education center, both near the Guatemala City garbage dump, or by assisting in our offices in Antigua, you can make a significant difference in the lives of poor children and their families by being a Safe Passage volunteer.

Volunteers are a vital and essential part of our program. They work in collaboration with our Guatemalan staff and other volunteers to provide the educational and emotional support necessary for the children in our project to break free from their surrounding poverty through the power of education.

The qualities and skills that our volunteers share with the children are many: a sense of self-worth and dignity, the motivation and perseverance to overcome a difficult challenge, creativity, confidence, respect for others, the ability to think critically to solve problems, and how to give generously of one’s time, energy and talent.

By sharing these gifts, our volunteers affirm for the children that they are capable, competent, cared for, and loved.

We are always looking for energetic and dedicated people to be a part of our volunteer team. Please see our most recent list of volunteer positions. If you are ready to have your heart tugged, your mind stretched, your muscles exhausted, and your sense of justice for the world enlarged, contact us to find out more. We can be reached via email at Volunteers@safepassage.org

Please click here to see a video created by the volunteer department about what it is like to be a volunteer with Safe Passage.

Please click here to read a recent blog from the One Spark Film's crew during their shooting of the documentary they are creating for Safe Passage.

If you’re planning to volunteer and need to improve your Spanish skills we highly recommend taking online courses through Academia Colonial, an excellent Spanish language school based in Antigua, Guatemala. You receive the same one-on-one attention that you would receive in person. 15% of your course tuition for online Spanish lessons through Academia Colonial will be donated back to Safe Passage! Click here for more information.