Boomers Abroad

Description

Kaya provides many English teaching placements but we also provide alternative education programs such as working with blind, deaf and children with Down syndrome. Education for these minority groups is poor and they are in great need of outside help. Be ready for minimal teaching aids and know now that you will be the main teaching resource. It is a great opportunity for the children to learn from a native speaker and hear the correct pronunciation, and all you need is a good level of English to participate in many of the placements.

Teach Music and Coach a Symphony Orchestra in Bolivia

This two-part project works with with the local school to provide music lessons and music appreciation to children of all ages, and also offers youngsters that have a keen interest or aptitude for music to join an after-school symphony orchestra. The project has bought many instruments for these children over the years and the orchestra has been running since 2003 - with literally hundreds of children benefitting from its work.

Art, Culture and Education in Bolivia

Volunteer in Bolivia on an Art and Culture Education Project and get involved with promoting the integration of Bolivia's diverse multi-ethnic cultures through the arts. The project promotes the interaction of artists from different origins and understands that their visitors have different interests.

Teach English in Bolivia

Become a volunteer and help the youth of Bolivia succeed in a global economy by working to improve their English skills. These teaching and teaching-assistant projects are located in the centre of the colonial city of Santa Cruz and in the beautiful city of Cochabamba. Volunteers teach during school mornings and/or afternoons, and generally enjoy a flexible schedule. Students range from 6 to 18 years and each class has about 40 students. Volunteers will help the students learn English through conversation workshops, songs, games, and other fun activities. Volunteers also have the option of joining in with extracurricular activities including sports, arts and music.

Creative Education for Underprivileged Children in Bolivia

Give disadvantaged children the extra help they need to succeed in school and at life. The project is based in a home/child minding centre in Cochabamba. Local children attend and are offered English classes as well as other extra curricular activities such as theatre, music and cultural studies. There is no cultural centre in Santa Cruz for underprivileged kids and the aim of these classes is to provide the children with a rich knowledge of their culture and enable them to demonstrate what they learn to others through performance.

Sports Coaching and Development in Bolivia

Choose a sports coaching project with a difference and come and work with Kaya to help develop sporting skills for underprivileged children in Bolivia. Working within the realm of care, education and recreation, this project provides support to over 230 street children of mixed gender from the ages of 4 to 12 years. The project includes work with sports, regular education and nutritional advice. The centre gives support for the children not only with the activities they provide, but also with the transfer of the children to the project site. A member of staff from the project goes to collect the children with a bus so they can be transferred at least twice a week with a return transfer to their homes afterwards.

Sports Coaching with Children in Bolivia

This volunteer project in Bolivia is based in a Catholic School of about 1,900 students. They have all levels from kindergarden to primary and secondary age. Physical education is not an elementary part of the school system and in this project they are trying to promote healthy issues through sport to integrate active lifestyles into their everyday lives.

School for Deaf Children in Bolivia

Become a volunteer in Bolivia and work in this school that has been providing deaf children with special education since 1957. The project provides special education for children and young Deaf people across the country in all three educational levels: elementary, primary and secondary. The school not only provides education in the usual topics such as maths, English and science; it also has lessons in theatre, dance and body expression, ceramics, and deaf culture and identity. Alongside this occupational courses such as dressmaking, cookery, and metal mechanics are also offered. The schools mission is to become a model for Bolivia in the education of deaf people from a bilingual and bi-cultural approach.

Special Education for Children with Disabilities in Bolivia

Become a volunteer in Bolivia and lend your skills and compassion teaching in a school for children with special needs. The main aim of this school is reintegrating students into mainstream school wherever possible and most of the curriculum is taught in line with the curriculum taught at regular schools. Volunteers are needed to assist with classes such as maths, literature, sciences, history, sports, music, dance, and also in the workshops: cooking, ceramics, paper recycling, and computers.

Help in the Campaign for Womens Rights in Bolivia

Be on one of our most unique projects in South America. In this very interesting project, it has been identified that in issues of womens rights, that working with the women alone is not sufficient. Issues and rights related to reproductive health are formed at family, socio-cultural, economic and political levels. This study develops and implements strategies for involving men and for changing the socio-political context in which women live. The centre also works with schools to transform future generations by educating children on gender and reproductive health. It focuses on 4 areas; domestic violence, social integration, contribution to the economy and sexual and reproductive rights.

Work in a Shelter for Abused Girls in Bolivia

Join this volunteer programme in Bolivia and help provide a safe, secure environment and a more positive future to girls who have suffered abuse at home or who were previously living or working on the streets. There are 2 main aspects to the project: a residential home for girls who have suffered from domestic abuse, and an educational centre for all the girls in which they can gain qualifications. The centre provides the girls with a small income of 100 bolivianos (12 USD) per month for attending to encourage them to continue with their education rather than returning to the streets to work. The centre also runs livelihood programmes including a small craft shop and a café to give the girls an extra income and a sense a sense of self worth and to encourage them to want to achieve more.