Upon your arrival to Buenos Aires, you will be welcomed at the airport by the Puentes driver and transported to your Buenos Aires home.

By participating in the Puentes Community Impact Day, you will make a positive contribution to Argentine society, while more fully understanding the country’s socioeconomic context. You will work together with under-resourced families to help them build their own houses using reused, recycled, and sustainable materials, through adobe construction and “ecoladrillos.” You will get hands-on learning about sustainability, construction, and community building while literally getting your hands a bit muddy in the process.

You will venture to an “estancia” (ranch) in the Pampas region outside of Buenos Aires for a fabulous day of adventure and culture. Once you arrive to the estancia, you will have empanadas and get the chance to ride horses.  Then you’ll have a big “asado” lunch, followed by a horse demonstration and traditional folklore music and dance show by the “gauchos” (Argentine cowboys).  In the afternoon you will have more time to explore the estancia, and then enjoy a “merienda” (tea time) before departing to return to Buenos Aires City.

Enhance your professional skills through two one-on-one mentoring sessions with Puentes staff.  The first session focuses on resume building and provides you with personalized revisions on your resume.  In the second session on professional interviewing, you do a mock interview with Puentes staff and then receive detailed feedback on your interviewing style and responses, as well as helpful tips on best practices for job interviews.

We will arrange your housing so that you will be settled into comfortable, pre-screened, and well-located accommodations during your time in Buenos Aires.  All Puentes housing includes bedding, towels, weekly cleaning, and Wi-Fi access. To help you select the best housing option for you, please review our Housing Guide.

When selecting your housing option, please enter the correct number of weeks for which you’d like Puentes housing.

You can further enhance your cultural immersion and also gain professional experience by doing an internship. We will set up an engaging internship at a high-performing nonprofit or business in Buenos Aires, in which you will undertake meaningful work with close supervision. Throughout the internship, you will have regular check in meetings with your internship supervisor in order to review recent and upcoming work. Additionally, you, the Puentes staff, and your internship supervisor will have an initial meeting and a mid-internship site visit meeting to provide a space to review your project work plan and communicate learnings, challenges, successes, and goals. At the end of the internship, you and your internship supervisor will have a closing meeting to reflect on your internship experience. To learn more about our internship methodology, please visit Internships.