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 Train nature guides in central america with worldteach and rare, change livesTwo years ago, with no international experience and a college diploma still wet with ink, Noreen Cornoni traveled to Republic of Honduras to become a nature guide trainer in an innovative alliance betwixt WorldTeach, a Harvard-based volunteer instruction organization, and RARE centre, a nonprofit conservation organisation based in Arlington, Virginia, which specializes in promoting ecotourism as a tool for preservation and community development. The guide preparation course is an intensifier 3-month experience where instructor and pupil (local usher from select protected areas) eat, live, and study jointly in remote control natural areas. The military volunteer teach a assortment of topic, including English language, ntaural and cultural history, preservation, and tour planning. Volunteers sepnd a total of six calendar month in-country. To date, RARE centre has trained nearly 200 local usher in Costa Rica, the Baja and Yucatan Peninsula Peninsulas in United Mexican States, the Mexican state of Chiapas, and Republic of Honduras through 13 different guide preparation programs. This year, RARE and WorldTeach will hold guide preparation programs in South Africa, Honduras, and Republic of Guatemala. The course of study is famous for changing the lives of pupil and instructor alike. Noreen Cornoni returned to New York City to teach in Spanish Harlem and study for a maestro’s in environmental education. Three of the four participants in her group are now workings in environmental areas. Contact WorldTeach at 800-483-2240, www.worldteach.org, or email programme officer Harriet Wong, . Learn more about the RARE centre by visiting www.rarecenter.org. More Volunteer Abroad Articles |