Volunteer With Babies

General Information

Country: Bolivia

City: Santa Cruz

Project Area: Community Development

Project: Babies Shelter

Project Information:

Minimum length of stay at project: Two weeks
Maximum length of stay at project: No Maximum
Maximum number of volunteers: 2 Volunteers at the same time.
Summary of project:(aims, history, background, size and achievements)

Is a non-profit shelter for babies from 0 to 10 years old they take care of about 20 babies, feed the babies and give them basic education prior school.

The children are divided in groups. The first group includes babies from 0 to 2 years old; there is another group of babies from 2 years old to 4. There are about 15 people working there as well as some eventual volunteers. They are working on promoting adoption of the babies; if the child is not adopted before they are 10 years old they go to other orphanages for older children.

List of Volunteer Work activities:

To prepare Babies food
To feed the babies
To wash the babies
To play games with the oldest kids
To organize and do workshops with the oldest kids
To teach basic things to the kids i.e. the colors, etc.
To help washing the dishes, cleaning the rooms, etc.

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