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International Partner Stories

Our international partners accomplish amazing things with volunteers. Read their stories.

Volunteer assistance is critical to enabling our international partners to create change in their communities. Many of them have shared the work they were able to accomplish with the help of international volunteers. Read their stories below. 

 

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Volunteers Needed! October 25, 2012 Helping Honduras Kids, Honduras We have immediate openings for volunteers at our Hogar de Amor or Jungle School in Honduras. Please contact us at volunteer@helpinghonduraskids.org .You can also go to our website, www.helpinghonduraskids.org to fill out the volunteer application and email it to the volunteer email addresses above and also get more information.Just about everyone at Helping Honduras Kids is a volunteer! We are seeking volunteers with a burning desire and some background to help make a positive difference in the lives of impoverished Honduran children.Helping Honduras Kids programs are in the vibrant La Ceiba area of the north coast of Honduras. The jungle rivers of the Pico Bonito National Forest and the sun and sand of the Caribbean are only 15 minutes away. La Ceiba has an airport, a bus station... Current Children's Home Read More

 

 

Feria de Lectura – A Day of Reading October 24, 2012 Proyecto Horizonte, Bolivia On 19th of October we celebrated the day of reading in Plaza Colon in the city center of Cochabamba. Most of the children of Proyecto Horizonte day care center and some children from the school took part in the event. Also the parents of the children joined our event encouraging children to read. In Uspha-Uspha community the adult illiteracy rate is still quite high and Proyecto Horizonte is working on improving it. The day of reading is a good way to emphasize the importance of reading for both adults and children. The children of the kindergarten had prepared small stories for the event, which they read for people passing by The Plaza Colon. Once somebody listened to a story they signed their booklets and at the end of the day the children... Feria de Lectura Feria de Lectura Feria de Lectura Feria de Lectura Read More

 

 

Field Trip to Conchal Take Three! October 24, 2012 Abriendo Mentes, Costa Rica By Christie VogtOn October 9th and 11th, a group of our 3rd through 6th graders visited the conservation area Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre Mixto Conchal for their third of four planned excursions. The trips have been organized to give students the opportunity to observe and document changes in the ecosystem throughout the year. For this trip, the kids were asked to compare the state of the forest in the dry season to the wet season.Abriendo Mentes at ConchalOur guide, Rocio Rojas, and her assistants started off the October 11th visit by asking the students to sit in a circle on the ground so that she could briefly talk about the expectations and rules to be followed for the afternoon (quiet voices, stay in a line, hands off wildlife, leave... Read More

 

 

A World of Possibilities October 24, 2012 Abriendo Mentes, Costa Rica By Rachel GallucciThe theme of kids classes last week at AM was Transportation and Travel. Through various projects, crafts, and activities, the kids were learning valuable vocabulary words and, more importantly, how to think beyond the scope of Potrero. As a recent high school graduate, I truly believe that a global perspective is one of the most important, invaluable skills a child can be taught.The bottom line is, when you are given the opportunity to see just how far you can travel in this world—how many people you can meet, how many things you can do, how much impact you can have—you dream bigger. Your dreams can only grow as big as your perspective, and if that perspective is limited to a small town, it’s hard to develop big ambitions.... Read More

 

 

Update on our Duiker Easy October 23, 2012 Daktari Bush School and Wildlife Orphanage, South Africa Easy is now around 2 months and is getting quite big ☺ We even caught her stealing food from our dogs and we thought you might enjoy this picture. She is very sweet and has a bit of a cheeky character ☺  Comment on this story

 

 

CREAR welcomes two new Education Coordinators October 22, 2012 Asociacion CREAR, Costa Rica Kelly and Kristen have joined the CREAR team as Education Coordinators. Together they are responsible for planning interactive and educational lesson plans for the Samara and El Torito programs.CREAR is excited to have these wonderful individuals working with the organization. Please stay tuned for all the great work that they are doing. Here is a little background information on the Educational Coordinators.Kelly is from Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and went to college at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. While at school she studied abroad in Lima, Peru. She finished her degree in Political Science, Philosophy and History, and then moved to China for a year to teach English to primary students in Shenzhen. Kelly plans to stay in Samara for several months before returning home to pursue... Read More

 

 

Support the establishment of a Child Rescue Centre October 21, 2012 Childline Uganda, Uganda The Child Rescue Centre/ Programme is one of the programs of CHILDLINE UGANDA that was established in February 2012, it was established to rescue and support HIV positive children, orphans and vulnerable children that are homeless, total orphans, child headed families and have lost hope in life. We support them with shelter, education, medication, feeding, clothing and much more in their lives Currently, the number of children that have been rescued and are hosted at the centre, are 7, all these are HIV positive children and are on ART treatment. However, the number of needy children (HIV positive) and those being referred from the authorities and child welfare departments is on a higher increase. For example we received requests for 10 children that need to be rescued, and are still... Read More

 

 

Bushwalk October 19, 2012 Daktari Bush School and Wildlife Orphanage, South Africa This week the volunteers did a bushwalk with the children, the volunteers dressed up as proper safari guides :-) And where very professional when they encountered a deadly boomslang! Comment on this story

 

 

Changes for New Hope Expands October 18, 2012 Changes for New Hope, Peru       Nothing is static in a project like this.  People, situations and opportunities appear without  announcement and we welcome every challenge.    This week was just like that. Welcome news seems to be deaf to every negativity. It just arrives like a ray of sunshine. Our project has expanded with the addition of two more eager groups of children. Their parents had heard about our progress in our present groups. They have asked us to begin reaching out to their children numbering about 40 in all. We start immediately. Finger puppets to teach effective communication skills, magic to entertain the children and learning games to enhance their learning abilities will balance out our recreation and art projects.    As though that was not enough to give us all permanent smiles, a local church group gave us the... Read More

 

 

Teacher's Assistants needed at Jungle School October 17, 2012 Helping Honduras Kids, Honduras We are in great need of volunteer Teacher's Assistants for the 2013 school year and beyond at our Jungle School. You would assist teaching spanish speaking children from Kindergarden through 6th grades. Moderate conversational Spanish skills are needed.Contact us at volunteer@helpinghonduraskids.org to volunteer!Helping Honduras Kids opened the Jungle School doors in February 2007. The school currently has 90+ students in grades K-6 and is located in a steep jungle area near the lower Cangrejal River Watershed, called Herradura. The JS has 5 teachers and a director, including kindergarten, and 5 classrooms. Some of the children attending this school walk two-three hours on slippery trails round trip every day just to have the opportunity to get an education and go to school.  Most of these children live in remote, isolated areas... Read More

 

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