Help disadvantaged children!
Placement number: 0136
Location: Casa do Caminho, Brazil
Preferred Languages: Portuguese
Date:
All Year
Minimum Period: 3 months
Casa do Caminho is an orphanage run by a non-profit organization called Communidade Rural Casa do Caminho, with an aim of providing a full-time home to shelter children on a long-term basis. Casa do Caminho is situated in the remnants of the 'Tingua Rainforest.' It is an ideal setting; children are able to get away from the violence and poverty of the favellas (shantytowns) that most of them grew up in. It is 30 minutes away from Xerem, which itself is an hour's bus ride away from the center of Rio de Janeiro.
Currently Casa do Caminho shelters 20 children (11 boys and 9 girls) between 4 and 13. Back in 2002, two other houses were opened in Xerem; one for teenage girls (8 live there now) and one for teenage boys (16 live there now). These houses have been set up to encourage independent living, but the teenagers are invited back to Casa do Caminho on weekends to spend time with the younger children.
Role of Volunteer
- Special skills needed: Nurse, teacher, fundraiser, child psychologist, artist, construction worker.
- Volunteers are responsible for assisting with education, helping the nannies with daily routines like hygiene, organizing games, ensuring timely bedtimes, serving food for dinner and cleaning up afterwards, basic first aid, and other necessary duties. There will be spare time for sports, arts, and helping with homework!
Volunteer stories
Find out what our past volunteers thought of this placement!
Arthur, March - August
2006
"The experience was definitely life changing and positive.
During my stay with the kids we went on several field trips outside of
Xerem. In case you were not aware, the orphanage is situated in the middle
of a tropical rainforest."
Cost
Volunteering here is free and all volunteers are given free food and accommodation.
Travel
Volunteers will be met at the airport by the project manager or another experienced volunteer, who will travel with them to the project.
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