Peru Volunteer - Orphanages and Youth Centers

  Peru

• All Other Areas in Peru: 
Huancayo,  Rural Areas

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

Description: In this program you will assist in centers that are located in the city of Huancayo. The orphanages are places of transition for children and adolescents in a state of physical or moral abandonment. They offer to the children food and nutrition, education, guidance, and company, among many other things. Volunteers work with male children and adolescents between 5 and 18 years at social risk who present many problems; many are orphans, others have suffered domestic violence, or have been abandoned by their parents. Working with these children and adolescents will allow you to learn more about the problems that poverty and marginalization have brought to this group that is highly senstive and vulnerable. But above all, it will allow you to help them, collaborate with their rehabilitation and reassimilation into the society, where they can be made into good Peruvian citizens as adults.

Activities performed as a volunteer:
* Activities to encourage their intellectual, physical, and social development.
* Development of skills, through sports, dance, music, singing, etc
* Care and protection of the children.
* Support in the activities of food and hygiene.

Other activities you can help with include:
* Helping the children with their homework in science, math, or language (English)
* Teaching English, music, painting, or many other things, depending on your creativity and skills or talents.
* Teaching reading and writing
* Helping in developmental activities, such as: sports, dance, music, and singing, recreational games

However, the most important thing about working as a volunteer in this project is the interaction between you and the children, who need a lot of attention, care, and above all, love.

Highlights: Getting involved in our programs will allow you to not only help those that most need it, but also get to know a very different and diverse culture. Most of all, by being useful to the society, you will acquire great experience and personal satisfaction.

Qualifications: For this project, volunteers should be very patient with children, who often need care and affection and are not receptive and hard to control. They should be prepared to encounter some difficulties that come with working with children and adolescents.

Thematic areas of work:
- Psychology
- Education
- Development
- Health, physical and mental
- Art and human development
- Activities to prepare the youths for work
- Recreational activities
- Sports

Cost in US$: starting from US$ 120

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: * Has the ability to be a good friend. * Has the patience to work and play with children. * Is a person who can work with others. * Is dynamic and has good humor. * Is kind and understanding. * Has a willingness to learn and improve.

Age Range: 18 to 60

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:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network

Expand Peru's Mission Statement: Our mission is to promote the integral development of children living in extreme poverty in Peru through actions in the interest of human beings and their surroundings. Our objectives for the children is (1) to improve the quality of life of at-risk children and youth living in extreme poverty from all three of Peru's geographical regions (coast, mountains and rain forest), and to reinforce their integral development (2) to improve their health, education, and sociability through various volunteering programs (3) to improve their health, education, and sociability through various volunteering programs. Our objectives for the volunteers is to (1) to give young people from all over the world a chance to work as volunteers in a developing country helping the poorest communities (2) to enable the volunteers' personal and professional development through work that allows them to grow as individuals using their skills and talents (3) to give the volunteers the opportunity to participate in and learn from a very rich and different culture through a direct experience.

Year Founded: 1999