Special Needs, Foster Child & Pre-School Teaching Project Detail
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- £785
- $1415
Special Needs, Foster Child & Pre-School Teaching Project
SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN'S TEACHING INITIATIVE
Assist in the care of special needs children at a school within the rural village on the outskirts of the South African coastal town of Port Alfred. The rural village is a poor area with problems of unemployment and a lack of medical and teaching facilities. In a small building in the middle of the village, 26 special needs children are taught, entertained, and fed.
The children, whose ages range between 8 and 25 years old, need as much stimulation and individual attention as possible. Volunteers will assist with classwork, sports, arts and crafts, one on one teaching and games with the children in what would otherwise be time spent at home with little or no stimulation at all. You will also be able to help with preparing and feeding the children their breakfast and lunch and possibly learn to cook local foods! The school has a vegetable garden in their backyard and use these grown vegetables in many of the children's meals.
PRE-SCHOOL TEACHING INITIATIVE
Volunteers can also choose to provide some much needed assistance in one of several crèche's/child care facilities within the village where the staff are overstretched and resources are limited. Volunteers will work within the preschool class, with their teacher, and provide teacher support, notably around the week's learning themes, assist in teaching basic English lessons, play games, sing songs and paint and draw with the children and provide them with the one on one attention that they deserve but may not get in their home environment. The kids are aged between 0 and 6 years and have lots of energy to keep you busy all morning!
FOSTER CHILD INITIATIVE
In the afternoons volunteers will have the opportunity to assist with the care of 6 foster children. You will be able to interact with the children on a one-on-one basis with their homework, followed by some healthy outside playtime!
SPORTS & TEAM BUILDING INITIATIVE
Volunteers on this project will also have the option to assist in the afternoon coaching of rugby, cricket and other team sports to the local disadvantaged children. For 4 afternoons a week a group of children who live in the village meet to participate in a fun afternoon of playing a sport and are specially allocated nearby fields for this purpose.
This initiative was specifically started to promote a sense of well-being among the children and provide them with an after-school activity option. Most of the children in the village do not have access or resources to participate in any sort of sport or other after-school activity and this initiative is aimed at keeping them healthy and off the streets where they may get up to mischief!
The village is a safe and peaceful area with wonderful people and the project is dynamic and exciting with lots of opportunity to really make an impact in the lives you come into contact with.
Rest assured your work will be necessary, rewarding and exciting. We invite you to be more than a tourist...
Please note that this project will be closed during the school holidays, which are as follows:
26 March – 12 April 2010
9 June – 13 July 2010
23 September – 4 October 2010
10 December through to mid-January 2011.
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