Mid-term (1 to 6 months) "work with children/teenagers" projects in Peru

This project will be carried out at the Happy Faces Hosting Home "Infant Jesus of Prague" in the town of Lurin - Lima, home to 45 girls between 3 and 13 years of age who have been victims of sexual and physical abuse.

The project aims to strengthen and promote the comprehensive development of children and adolescents at risk, conducting educational workshops and recreational resources to be able to overcome the consequences of the violence they have lived in their homes.

In this project volunteers will implement its high sense of service, strengthening the shortcomings of values, self esteem, and desire to overcome in these girls and teenagers. This will be done through games, dynamic educational lectures, school support in order to increase young people's motivation levels.

All these girls need the affection, interest and much enthusiasm of the volunteers. We will need to help them to regain trust to be able to catch up at school and simply to learn to play and interact with other children, in conclusion, to offer them a way out of their troubled personal situation.

The volunteers will conduct various activities, according to their skills, experiences and interests, under the frame of the programme activities of the institution. Those can be for example, academic activities, such as the strengthening of some educational subjects and the teaching computer skills; implementing and developing various workshops with the girls that will raise their spirit of initiative and creativity; supporting in the workshops of sewing, weaving, painting and sports activities; recreational activities such as music, dance, handcrafts.
The volunteers are going to work every day from Monday to Friday with a total of 45 female children and adolescents except on weekends when they will have free time.

The volunteers should have basic knowledge of Spanish and to be a female.

The volunteers will live at the Children Home, in rooms separated from the children. Volunteers should bring a sleeping bag as it will be needed when staying out with the children.

Lurin, the ecological town, is situated at 36km south of the historical centre of Lima. From very ancient times this was an area of agriculture and fishing. It is also famous for the very advanced culture that developed here, characterised by their magic-religious features.

Basic Spanish is preferable.

The volunteer will have a mentor that will support her/his work at the project. She will also participate in social activities together with local volunteers from Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Perú.

The project is open throughout the whole year and volunteers can stay from one to six months.

210 Euro per month. This amount paid by the volunteer to BVBP will cover the accommodation and food costs, as well as the operational and administrative costs of the project.

This project aims to strengthen the efforts that have been made by state institutions such as INABIF as well as by the civil society, in the areas where we can find working street children.

With this project we aim to contribute to the overall development of the working street children and adolescents, through a non-formal educational process, applied by the so called “Street Educators”. Through it, the children based in the areas of intervention of this project, in particular those living under conditions of poverty and socio-cultural marginalisation, may be able to have access to all their rights, mainly the right to a free education.

The project is developed in three urban areas of Huanuco with young children that live in extreme poverty and that are involved since tender age in the worst forms of child labour, exposed to various types of abuse and excluded of accessing their basic rights such as the right to education.

With this project, the volunteer will be able to put in practice his/her spirit of service, working to oppose the children's lack of values, and to increase their self-esteem and their will to improve their lives. All this will be done through a range of educational games, talks, school support, everything intending to motivate the children.

Volunteers will develop various activities, according to their skills, experiences and interests, under the frame of the prgramme of activities of this institution. Here are some examples -

Academic activities, such as the support in certain school subjects.
Implementing and developing various types of workshops that can develop the children's initiative and creativity.
Recreational activities, such as sports, music, dance and handcrafts.

Volunteers will work from Monday to Friday with a total of 50 children from three areas of the city of Huanuco. Weekends will be free.

The volunteer(s) will live in the house of a family with basic services provided. They should bring a sleeping bag as they will occasionally sleep out while doing activities related with the project.

Huanuco is an historical city situated in central Peru, 1939 metres above sea level. It has all the services of a modern city and it counts with a Spring-like climate during the whole year, thus we recommend volunteers to bring light clothing.

The volunteer will have a mentor that will support her/his work at the project. The volunteer will also participate in social activities together with local volunteers from Brigada de Voluntarios Bolivarianos del Perú.

The project is open throughout the whole year, volunteers can stay from one month to one year.

Basic Spanish is preferable.

210 Euro per month. This amount paid by the volunteer to BVBP will cover the accommodation and food costs, as well as the operational and administrative costs of the project.