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Help Teach Indigenous communities in Peru
Description
Volunteers will be teaching children in the ‘pueblos jovenes’ or ‘young towns’ that surround the beautiful colonial city of Arequipa, Peru, South America. A range of subjects are taught, including basic literacy and numeracy. These long-term placements are very beneficial for the childrens' development because they give them much needed continuity. As this GVI program runs in conjunction with the communities, volunteers will also help in the running of educational reinforcement programs, and assist at understaffed schools.
Every 3 months, two weeks break is scheduled so volunteers have an opportunity to relax or travel around Peru and other areas of South America. To help you make the most of your time on the program, there are additional opportunities available; such as 40 hours of one-on-one Spanish classes as well as adventure activities including a three-day hiking trip to the Colca Canyon to see Condors, a mountain bike trip to Chachani and a guided trip to Salinas Salt Plain.
Highlights
Living with a host family; learning Spanish (optional); teaching and helping indigenous children and adults; exploring the spectacular Peruvian region on the side trips by bike, foot and on horseback; taking cultural workshops and excursions; amazing community interaction.
As with our similar projects in Latin America, our aims are first and foremost in education, and pay particular focus on literacy and educational reinforcement for the children of each community. Global Vision International, with the full support of the leaders of the communities and the schools, aims to tackle these issues. As GVI’s volunteers actually do the teaching alongside the local teachers and on their own, we can group the children by age and grade, to pay closer attention to the children and the required subjects, and identify those children who require further help. Coupled with paying for the school supplies, it is hoped that more children will attend and will receive the attention needed for their standard of education to improve.
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