Peru Volunteer - Special project "CASA"

  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: The education assistance centers supported by our organization are for children between 6 and 12 years of age living in extreme poverty. The centers are important resources that help families organize both work and family life. They offer children games, company, cultural activities, sports, and above all, education.

Education Assistance Centers:
- Are very important social institutions that greatly benefit society, families, and the children at an individual level. They are considered to be centers of assistance, education, recreation, growth, and protection.
- A path to other opportunities: they improve the quality of life for the children.

Objectives of the Education Assistance Centers:
- Improve the quality of life of the children living in the rural area of the Mantaro Valley.
- Offer education and attention in a safe environment to the children whose parents need to work.

In these centers the volunteers offer informal education to the children in the form of educational, artistic, cultural, and sporting activities, among other things. They help the children and teenagers with problems they may have and assist them with their homework.

It is also highly possible to organize workshops for the parents.
- Practical workshops:
- Business ideas/skills
- Starting and operating a small business

- Educational workshops:
* Nutrition and health
* Sexual education

- Literacy

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: The volunteer should have the patience to work with and enjoy children and be able to work in a team. Experience in education are of advantage but not compulsory.

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 Services Include:

• Alumni Network

Expand Peru's Mission Statement: Our mission ist to promote the integral development of children living in extreme poverty in Peru through actions in the interest of human beings and their surroundings. OBJECTIVES: For the children: 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 rainforest), and to reinforce their integral development. 1. To improve their health, education, and sociability through various volunteering programs. 2. To promote their personal development through a process focusing on their social reintegration. For the volunteers: To give young people from all over the world a chance to work as volunteers in a developing country helping th poorest communities. 1. To enable the volunteers' personal and professional development through work that allows them to grow as individuals using their skills and talents. 2. To give the volunteers the opportunity to participate in and learn from a vey rich and different culture through a direct experience.

Year Founded: 1999