Adolescent Health Education in the Villages of Huancayo

  Peru

• All Other Areas in Peru: 
Huancayo

Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks, 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months, 7-12 months, 1-2 years and over 2 years
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks

Description: This is an innovative health program that helps train and educate adolescents to make appropriate life decisions. The teaching curriculum covers an ample range of themes such as self esteem, values, stereotypical ideas about gender roles, decision making, father and motherhood, sexuality, AIDS, personal communication, and employment. Adolescence marks a time full of changes and decisions. The complex decisions and challenges to growing constitute a principal problem for adolescents. They need to be prepared and fully equipped to make positive life decisions regarding their personal and professional life as well as acquire the knowledge and necessary techniques to perform a productive role in society. This program is a dynamic health program that strives to help adolescents effectively confronts difficulties and challenges that their social environment may present as well as provide the necessary knowledge and skills to guarantee a complete physical, emotional and sexual development.

Recommended minimum time, two weeks.

Highlights: Our Children need to learn new things every day.

Qualifications: To be one of our volunteers you need to be 18 years old and have high school education as minumum. The principal requirement is the desire of helping others.

Who can volunteer?

* Anyone who's willing to dedicate their time to making a difference (University diploma or specialized studies not obligatory)
* Various professional / everyone willing to dedicate his/her time to the project.
* Specialized Personnel: We always could use the services of Educators - all levels and specialization / English teachers / various other professional with some experiences in education and arts.
* Volunteers wanting to work in this project must have confidence.

Cost in US$: from 150 dollars to 390 dollars

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: A volunteer of Esperanza Peru is a friend, who has a challenge to do her/his work due to our reality and the work that they do. Every day is new and different with many things to learn about the environment that surround them.

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Peru Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Esperanza Peru's Mission Statement: We are a non-profit organization concerned with improving the quality of life of the residents of the Central Andes in Peru living in extreme poverty. We work in a direct and very special manner with children in the rural areas, as with orphans and abandoned children through the programs and projects focused on the promotion of comprehensive social, cultural, economic and educational growth of this vulnerable population.

Year Founded: 2008