Can I do organised voluntary work at the Mariposa?
The Mariposa is primarily about trying to provide secure, reasonably paid employment for local Nicaraguan people, for which we use the income provided by the Spanish school students. As such, our focus is not to provide volunteering opportunities for foreign travellers.having said that you are, of course, more than welcome to help out informally with cooking, gardening, looking after rescued animals and we can place people in local schools as classroom assistants (we require a reference if you want to do this). There is no discount for helping out!
The Mariposa is primarily about trying to provide secure, reasonably paid employment for local Nicaraguan people, for which we use the income provided by the Spanish school students. So we are very careful not to replace Nicaraguan workers with volunteers. We therefore place volunteers individually alongside a Nicaraguan worker – this also has the advantage of helping with the volunteers Spanish. See the section on volunteering for more information. If you opt to do volunteer work whilst staying in the hotel or the cabin, there is no reduction in price.
