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Volunteer Work With Children

General Information
Country:	Bolivia
City:	Santa Cruz
Project Area:	Community Development
Project:

Project Information

Minimum length of stay at project: Two weeks
Maximum length of stay at project: No Maximum
Maximum number of volunteers: 11 Volunteers at the same time.
Summary of project:
(aims, history, background, size and achievements)

Reason for needing Volunteers: The main reason is for the kids to feel that there are people that cares about them, also they get the chance to know new cultures, make some friends and have fun since the kids at the orphanage rarely have the opportunity to go out and have a normal life like any child.

Introduction:
The Orphanage is a non profit charitable institution providing a community service where all funds go to benefit orphaned and abandoned children in Bolivia. It is operated under the protection of the Catholic Church Administration with residence in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Their mission is to provide support for development of orphaned or abandoned children with social problems in a home and family atmosphere. In order to provide better future prospects, the villages offer a secure, permanent and protected upbringing with appropriate education to enable employment and future self sufficiency. This vocational work is done in an open way to provide a fair, equal and prosperous society.

The objective of the Villages is to provide a community service for the problems of abandoned children. It has no political affiliations or profit making aims.

The children's villages consist of individual family units, each housing a mixed gender group of 10-12 children of various ages. Each house is headed by a foster mother who manages the household independently. All live in harmony like a traditional family with mother and siblings. Siblings of blood are kept together. The children grow up in the children's villages and are being raised at home and in school on strong moral and religious principles.

Once they have reached age 15-16 and completed middle school, they live in separate boys' and girls' residences. Most of them will go on to study a technical or professional career, and a few will even continue higher education at the University. Each child makes their own career decision based on his or her individual talents and intellect.

The children remain in the residences until they are able to lead an independent life outside. Once their mission is accomplished, they integrate our youth into the society from which they came as respectable and educated persons.

List of Volunteer Work activities:
Helping children with homework, sharing the activities and experiences of the children who live in the project.

Helping children with their personal care.
Taking the children to parks, market, zoo, etc.
If the volunteers speak good Spanish they could participate from the beginning in the therapeutic groups.
Play games with the kids, watch TV, movies, do some cooking and any entertaining activity.
The project is open to new ideas or skills like painting, carpentry, music, sports or whatever the volunteers can do.

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