Taino Volunteers

Taino Volunteers is rated 3 out of 5 in the category leisure. Read and write reviews about Taino Volunteers. Taino Volunteeers empower, restore, and promote community development in Puerto Rico through sustainable practice. This organization exists to provide a hands-on and eye-opening learning experience focusing on authentic connection between volunteers and host communities. The name Taino Volunteers is symbolic of the steadfast roots that established and helped shape the Puerto Rican culture. In the same way, this organization is aimed at rebuilding foundation and illuminating the resilient culture, not just for the people of Puerto Rico, but with the people of Puerto Rico. Tainos were the Native Americans in Puerto Rico and throughout the Caribbean before European explorers arrived. Much has been lost of this advanced civilization, but we do know that Tainos were incredibly inventive and generous, and they believed in living in harmony with the land and nature. Tainos are also inherent survivors; even though they were pushed to the brink of extinction from disease and persecution from European settlers, today, more than 60% of Puerto Ricans proudly claim at least a bit of indigenous Taino DNA. We couldn't think of a better society to honor and hold as an example. The circular swirl surrounding the helping hands in the Taino Volunteers logo has a double meaning: 1. a hurricane 2. for the Tainos, that circular swirl was the symbol of life, and water.