Teach in a Bilingual school in an NGO Home for Girls!

  Honduras

San Pedro Sula

Description: Holy Family Bilingual school is a Not-for-profit bilingual school for education and the empowerment of girls from the OLR Home for Girls:

Volunteers accepted for a teaching position will be part of the staff of Holy Family Bilingual School. Holy Family Bilingual School was founded in 1998 by the director of Our Little Roses Ministries and is located on the actual compound of Our Little Roses Home for Girls. It offers preschool through 8th grade.

Holy Family Bilingual School provides an excellent private education. The school is comprised of about 15% of girls from OLR Home for Girls and the rest are children of middle class families and scholarship students from the community. All profits made by Holy Family Bilingual School help pay for education for the OLR girls, and are otherwise invested in Our Little Roses Home for Girls.

Volunteers will team-teach in the classroom with a Honduran teacher: volunteers teach basic education classes (math, reading, science, phonics, spelling, grammar) entirely in English while the Honduran staff teaches other subjects (social studies, Spanish grammar) in Spanish. Children become fluent with ease in both languages through this method. The school day typically runs from 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., after which volunteers usually help in the OLR Home for Girls. Volunteers accepted into teaching positions must remain for the entire school year (August through June).

Highlights: In Honduras where the plight of abused and abandoned girls was once ignored, the ministry of Our Little Roses home has become an oasis of hope and opportunity for the girl child at risk. God has truly blessed this ministry shown in the transformed lives of once destitute girls. It began with a vision given to Doctor Diana Frade of hope with life-changing dimensions for physically and emotionally abused girls as well as orphans.

Our Little Roses Ministries or Ministerios Nuestras Pequeñas Rosas, as it is called in Spanish, maintains this central focus of working to rescue and transform the lives of homeless girls and has expanded to encompass several interrelated ministries within the larger community. These extended ministries include health and dental clinics, a housing project for poor single mothers with a literacy program, a community bilingual school, a Spanish language immersion program, retreat center, a bed and breakfast hostel and hospitality house.

Qualifications: Teaching in Holy Family Bilingual School requires patience, flexibility, love for children, and willingness to adapt to a new culture. Sensitivity, an open mind and a sense of humor sweeten any cultural or personality surprise. Teachers must be college graduates but do NOT need to a have a teaching certificate or be fluent in Spanish. However, Spanish classes through Our Little Roses Language School will be required if volunteers do not speak Spanish at an intermediate level. These classes are offered as a service to volunteers at a NON-profit rate, to facilitate volunteers.

Minimum Education: Bachelors

Salary / Pay: Pay and salary in kind for volunteer teachers: * $75 per month stipend for teachers; * free medical care in the OLRM medical clinic; * room and board in our volunteer home, including: - two meals per day; - unlimited internet (for $15 per month); - airconditioned bedrooms; - hot showers; - private bedroom with private bathroom for every teacher; - washing machine; - fully equiped kitchen.

Experience Required: no

Age Range: 21 minimum

This Program is open to World Wide Participants.

Participants Travel to Honduras Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• In-Person Interview Required
• Letters of Reference
• Resume
• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Alumni Network

Our Little Roses Ministries's Mission Statement: Our Little Roses Ministries (OLRM), a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), was founded in 1988 to care for abused and abandoned girls has extended multiple outreach ministries into the Honduran community. The largest and central ministry is our Home to more than 70 girls. In addition the ministries include the Holy Family health clinic, community for poor single mothers, Holy Family Bilingual School, Our Little Roses Language School and a medical program for street children. All aspects of Our Little Roses Ministries are designed to break the cycle of poverty in Honduras. Our Little Roses Home for girls prepares and empowers girls who have been abandoned or come from abusive or seriously dysfunctional families. At our Home they receive excellent mental and health care, good nutrition, individualized education and love. Our community in Cofradia provides homes for once destitute single mothers, and our clinic provides excellent health care at very low costs to the community. OLRM raises awareness of the Honduran reality among domestic and international visitors through Holy Family Bilingual School and the Holy Family Language School.

Year Founded: 1988