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Help to change the lives of entire communities building homes in Guatemala. You can help to provide impoverished locals with safe and secure accommodation that will give them a better standard of life.

You can live and breathe the Latin American lifestyle, staying with a local family in Antigua and setting off each day to get really hands-on with building work. No matter what your level of experience you can help to make a huge difference to families living in homes with sugar cane and cardboard walls.

You’ll be working alongside local families, often the family you are making the house for, building and rebuilding houses, working on making them safer and stronger. This project gives you a fantastic opportunity to see your work through from start to finish as each house takes around 6 days to complete. Kicking off with digging footings and laying foundations, the spending around 3 days on the fabric of the building and a couple of days finishing your masterpiece before you hand over the keys to a very happy family!

You will finish in the late afternoon and will have the evenings to yourself to relax or explore the sights of Antigua.


What's included?

* Host family accommodation
* Two meals a day
* Airport transfers
* Orientation upon arrival
* 24-hour support number

What's not included?

* All flights
* Travel insurance
* Lunches
* Visas

Duration

2 - 6 weeks

Start Dates

Real Gap Experience offer gap years, career breaks and adventure travel from 2 weeks to 2 years with weekly/monthly departures for most trips that aren’t dependant on seasons or weather to operate. Set departure dates means you’re always together with other young like-minded travellers and making new friends is guaranteed.

Costs / Benefits

Prices range depending on activity and duration. Volunteering starts from £389 for 2 weeks, Adventure Travel starts from £799 for 2 weeks and our Paid Work options start from £299 for up to 12 months. All trips come with, accommodation, some food, transfers, support and back up in-country and 24/7 emergency contact numbers. Before you leave full comprehensive information is provided through an Online Accounts and our expert travel advisers are always available to give help and advice.

Requirements

There are no specific qualifications or requirements needed to take part on this trip. We do however require that all travellers have a sense responsibility for other travellers, project staff and local community and most importantly... a sense of fun and adventure!