Work with Street Children Trip code: PER2
In Peru, hundreds of poor children live and sleep on the street. Various educational, recreational, and health projects are ongoing to support Peru’s unfortunate street children. Volunteers' assistance is greatly and urgently needed in many areas of this project. Presently, Rustic Volunteer Travel works in collaboration with children projects to focus on getting these children off the street, and providing them with shelter, food, and education. This program is the perfect place for volunteers looking for opportunities to share their love, passion, and skills with these very-unfortunate children who have rarely experienced love in their life.
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| Project/Volunteer's Life: |
In this program you will teach basic English to the children. They receive children who will be sent back with their families if they ran away, or sent to orphanages if they were abandoned. The children, ages 5 through 17, do not have anything to do while the police and the court decide what to do with them and they are often remained locked in rooms. Volunteers keep them company, teach them English, play with them, paint or read. Kids love volunteers at these projects because volunteers are the only company they have.
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| Skills and Qualification |
There are no specific qualifications needed to join Rustic Travel's volunteer street children project in Peru . However, volunteers are expected to be flexible and patient as well as possess a passion and love for orphans. While Spanish is preferred it is not required. Rustic offers free Spanish lessons to participants volunteering in Peru . |
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| Meals/Accommodations: |
Rustic Volunteer Travel manages room/food for volunteers. Volunteers live with the host family or in hostel. We manage a separate/shared, simple, clean and modest room as well as local meals three times a day. Volunteer will also have an access to our office in Peru and mobile number of our coordinators. Our staffs also visit volunteers in each 2-4 week interval as a part of the program. Details covering living accommodations provided prior to arrival. |
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| Project Locations: |
Orphanage projects are available in Cusco (Peru 's most enigmatic city and capital of Inca empire), Urubamba (The “ Pearl of the Vilcanota”, located in Peru 's lush Sacred Valley), Trujillo (home to the Floral Spring Festival, Chimu mud city of Chan Chan), Arequipa (The “ White City ”; Peru 's second largest city and home to the Misti volcano), Lima (Peru 's capital city, Lomas de Lachay, Plaza de Armas) and Huancayo (A busy commercial and tourist city in the Mantaro Valley). Known for being creative and also hard-working people, most Peruvians are great nationalists and love their country with pride (largely stemming from Peru's history as the center of both the Inca Empire and Spain's South American Empire). They are however ggenerally very friendly, peaceful and helpful. Peru is full of contrasts: from traditional culture and history to modern urban infrastructure and much of the amenities you would expect from a city.
Volunteers can organize different possible excursions during and after the project to visit places of interest. There is a tourist infrastructure already in place the volunteer can use during weekends. For example: natural reserves, whitewater rafting, museums, historical mansions, famous ruins, volcanoes, canyons (larger than the Grand Canyon) markets, and many more.
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TRIP Upgrade: |
| Rustic Volunteer and Travels offers a variety of volunteer projects and travel packages in Peru. You can customize or upgrade this travel itinerary to meet your specific interests. Please contact our travel advisor for more details |
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