Description

We are looking for volunteers with a degree or experience in working with teenagers. You will work daily shifts in conjunction with two other educators. As an educator at the teenage girls house (Casa CAM) you will have the following key responsibilities:
* Supervise daily routines school, chores, meals, activities
* Helping them with their after school homework
* Accompanying them to their after school activities
* Organizing recreational activities
* Teaching them social skills
* Work with the Love & Logic behavioural System

Highlights

* Working in a community of Brazilians and international volunteers
* The location in the beautiful Tingua reserve
* Trying to make a difference for the children and teens of our orphanage!
* Getting to know the Brazilian culture

Qualifications

* Minimum age: 21 years
* Advanced Portuguese skills
* 6 month - 2 year volunteer period
* Degree or experience working with children and teenagers

Intern Types

• Counseling
• Sociology
• Education
• Social Work

Languages

• Portuguese

Cost in US$:

No fees

Cost Includes:

• Food
• Housing

Program Fees Include:

We charge no fees and offer volunteers: food, accommodation and airport escort.

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

• Childcare/children
• Community Development
• Street Kids
• Teaching

Typical Volunteer

Enthusiastic, motivated, flexible, patient, hard worker that loves children and teens and helps out where necessary.

Age Range

21+

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Group living
• Dormitory

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

in Groups of 3

Application Process Involves

• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Phone/Video Interview

Typically The Application Process Time is

1 week

Comunidade Rural Casa do Caminho's Mission Statement

Casa do Caminho is an orphanage situated in a rural town near a rainforest, outside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Our mission is to help and take in children and adolescents in vulnerable social situations; to stimulate their development in fraternal cohabitation with nature while offering social, cultural, vocational, and sports programs; to promote the psychosocial restructurization of the family, and ultimately to facilitate the reintegration of this population into their families and society at the appropriate time.

Year Founded

1982