Description

Volunteer Abroad in Mexico by teaching Physical Education and Safety to children from low income families ranging from 2 to 8 years old. Besides making a valuable difference in the lives of these children, it is an opportunity to discover a country with a rich and varied culture and live a new and different experience where you can get to know yourself better and meet different people.

Highlights

* Promote exercise among children in their early years through Physical Education.
* Create consciousness about the importance of having a healthy body. Prevent addictions.
* Encourage health care through nutritionally balanced meals.
* Inform children about accident prevention, safe and unsafe acts.
* Choose the services you want to hire with Voluntrek, customizing the final price so that it fits your budget.
* Live in a cosmopolitan city that offers a wide array of cultural, tourist, outdoor and entertainment activities.

Qualifications

- Physical Education student or teacher
- Health and safety knowledge
- Physically fit to teach P.E.
- Level of Spanish required: Intermediate
- Enjoy working with children
- Ethical and with a sense for human values
- Dynamic
- Sense of accomplishment
- Planning abilities
- Group control

Languages

• Spanish

Cost in US$:

Volunteers can customize the cost they want to pay by adding or removing any services according to their needs and budget.

Cost Includes:

• Food
• Housing
• In-country orientation/Training
• In-country staff support
• Pre-departure orientation/Training
• Registration fees
• Written materials abroad
• Written materials pre-departure

Program Fees Include:

At Voluntrek you can choose the services you would like to hire with Voluntrek, and the ones you would like to arrange on your own, so it can meet your budget.

The price mentioned above is an example that includes: placement as a volunteer at an extablished non-profit organization, accomodation, meals (breakfast and lunch from Monday to Friday only; meals are not included during holidays, allowing you to travel to other places and get to know Mexico), airport pickup, pre-departure information kit, arrival and pre-departure orientation and local support 24/7.

* This price does not include the security deposit for your accommodation, which is USD 369; if at the end of your Volunteer Program everything is in order at the guest house, your deposit will be fully reimbursed.

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

Age Range

18 years and older

This Program is open to

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

Typical Living Arrangements

• Guest House

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

Independently

Application Process Involves

• Disciplinary Clearance Form
• Other
• Phone/Video Interview
• Physical Exam/Health Records
• Written Application

Post Services Include

• Exit Debriefing Abroad

Voluntrek's Mission Statement

Offer our participants volunteer experiences in Mexico that will provide them with a different and new experience and an understanding of our country's culture, at the same time that they help people in need and strengthen human values in our society, achieving a transformation in our country and in the world.