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 boys house (Casa Heppenheim), 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

* Rewarding to make a difference for the unprivileged children
* Beautiful nature
* Building friendships with the children, teenagers and staff of our organisation
* Challenging yourself

Qualifications

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

Languages

• Portuguese

Cost in US$:

0

Cost Includes:

• Housing
• Food

Program Fees Include:

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

Salary/Pay

Volunteers receive food and accommodation as compensation for their services.

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

• Childcare/children
• Community Development
• Health Education
• Street Kids

Typical Volunteer

Enthusiastic, motivated, patient, flexible hard workers that love to hang out with children and help out wherever necessary. Patience is key when working in Brasil!

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
• Other

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

Independently

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