Work with Children Teaching Physical Education and Safety

Location: Mexico: Mexico City (Ciudad de Mexico)

Typical Duration of Program: 3-6 months

Dates: Starting Dates: February 10, 2012 and August 14, 2012

Voluntrek

http://www.voluntrek.com.mx

Paseo de los Laureles #458 PB4 Col. Bosques de las Lomas Mexico City, D.F. 05120 Mexico

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 Include Description:

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.

Credit Available

no

Volunteer Types
  • Athletics
  • Childcare/children
  • Consciousness-raising
  • Education
  • Health Care
  • Health Education
  • Nutrition
  • Primary Education
  • Sports
  • Teaching
  • Volunteering
Age Range
18 years and older
This Program is open to

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

Typical Living Arrangements
  • Guest House

Participants Travel to Mexico

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.

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