Remember all those good New Year’s resolutions you had a couple of months ago? Was one of them doing something meaningful or helping your fellow human beings? Then volunteering abroad could be the solution! Here…
Chile is wild nature, high mountains and wide coasts. It’s a land of contrasts. While the landscapes range from volcanoes, to rain forests and the driest desert on earth, Chile’s big cities are fast paced…
Would you like to spend some time abroad doing something that matters? You know that you have the talent and the capacity to work with children, adults, or people with different abilities? Then, you need to volunteer…
Working with children with disabilities can be challenging for volunteers, particularly if this is part of your very first social work experience. Read some useful tips for working with children, which might help you in your next volunteering experience!
Volunteering with children always have a great responsibility and that’s why volunteers should be qualified and informed about how to interact with children. Read the following tips and be prepared for your meaningful work with children.
Mareili Amrein worked as a social worker in different fields in Switzerland. While she was taking a time-out from everyday life in Switzerland, she only wanted to make some holidays in Nicaragua (Central America) and to improve her Spanish. She was relaxing and taking some Spanish classes at the touristic spot Las Peñitas on the Nicaraguan Pacific coast, when she ran into the everyday problems and hard circumstances of the kids of the surrounding villages. She began taking care about two boys by preparing lunch for them and play some games. More and more kids from the surrounding villages joined the group. The project was born.
