Support for the Youth of Ayacucho

  Peru

• All Other Areas in Peru: 
Ayacucho

Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: April 9 - April 28

Description: The international volunteer project aims to implement an integral program for the life and work conditions of the kids and the young people at risk; to promote their development, protection, vigilance of the kids' rights and to contribute to the politics' social offers. If you are open minded and flexible, you will enjoy your experience.

The project will contribute directly to the youth society of the association giving them opportunity to see more options for their future and to have a better life.

The volunteer work will depend on the skills of the international volunteers, their interests, their specialties, but in general, here are the planned activities:

- Organization: To work with kids at the zone where they develop their work. To develop an education program to help youth.
- Training: To develop workshops with the kids. To impulse the workshops training.
- Pedagogic Area: Workshops with families. To implement workshops like handicraft, bakery, music, dance, and paint workshops.

In the workcamp a high interaction with the local population is encouraged, volunteers will share time, work and fun with the local youngsters of the communities and will learn about their way of living, their feelings, the way they see life and also will share with them in an intercultural exchange, very enriching for everybody involved, and also will discover some of the hidden places of Peru not known by tourists. These places are known only by the local people and every week the volunteers with the camp leader will organize spare time activities with the local youngsters.

In the workcamps it is possible to organize circles of conversation in Spanish with local youngsters, with the objective to help the international volunteers to learn Spanish and Quechua and also to share with the Peruvian youngsters your knowledge of English.

There is an extra fee of 210 Euro for participation in each of these workcamps, intended to support the hosting organization.

Cost in US$: $290 US

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: Motivated to work voluntarily within an international youth team, tolerant, open-minded and cooperative young person with adventurous spirit.

Age Range: 18+

This Program is open to American and Canadian Participants.

Participants Travel to Peru Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups

CADIP - Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects's Mission Statement: CADIP promotes peace, cooperation, tolerance and understanding in international, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural surroundings. The organization also promotes patterns and examples of civil activities focused on serving others, on building social ties and strengthening communities, on supporting civil society development. Aims and general objectives: * To promote volunteering as an expression of civic contribution * To strengthen the international contacts among young people * To build tolerance and understanding in multicultural and multi-ethnic surroundings *To promote multiunderstanding among youth all over the world * To facilitate the individual growth of the volunteers through the acquisition of work, life and learning skills * To work for the recognition and promotion of non-formal learning * To support the community initiatives and assist in community development.