Luz del Mundo is a home/child minding centre in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, run by Gabriela Rojas Llave. Local children attend and are offered English classes as well as other extra curricular activities such as theatre and cultural studies. There is no cultural centre in Santa Cruz and the aim of these classes is to provide the children with a rich knowledge of their culture and enable them to demonstrate what they learn to others through performance.
Gabriela, the director provides them with lunch and all of their learning materials, birthday and Christmas parties/presents, haircuts as well as encouragement and loving support that in a lot of cases they don’t receive in their homes.
We need volunteers to help with teaching English, arts, culture, dance or theatre. We would also welcome volunteers with any other skills that could help our organisation.
It’s not essential that volunteers are qualified teachers, we would prefer native English speakers for teaching English, however a high level of English as a second language would be OK. The level of the kids is very basic and one of the most important things that they learn is pronunciation since in many cases these classes are the only chance they get at hearing English when they don’t have television or stereos in their homes.
The hours are flexible, however during the weekdays the mornings are best since the children go to school around midday, on the weekends any hours are suitable. Generally the work is about 2 hours per day teaching. After two hours the kids start to lose concentration.
Volunteers should be aware that while working with us they may be the only foreign volunteer on-site. Volunteers need to be independent and capable of organising their own work, unsupervised.
We would prefer volunteers to have basic Spanish speaking skills and we would like you to stay with us for at least 2 weeks, though it’s not essential.
http://www.volunteersouthamerica.net/LuzDelMundo/ldm_index.htm
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