Description:
Volunteers will be teaching in local Dominican grade schools and the Orphanage Outreach English Institute during the school year, and conducting camps during the summer.
Highlights:
Volunteers will be living and working in Monte Cristi, a small fishing village on the north coast of the Dominican Republic near the Haiti border. Far from the tourists, Monte Cristi offers the opportunity to live in the traditional Dominican Republic.
Qualifications / Skills Needed:
Volunteers must be enthusiastic, flexible, creative, and enjoy children. Great for gap year, college internships, and anyone with an interest in making a difference in the lives of orphaned, abandoned, and disadvantaged children. No teaching experience necessary. A working knowledge of Spanish is helpful, but not necessary.
Intern Type:
Education
Language:
English
Language Used As A Medium of Teaching:
English
Salary / Pay: Volunteers raise support to pay the program fee, which covers room and board, insurance.
Experience Required: no
Typical Volunteer Projects:
childcare/children,
orphans
and teaching
This Program is open to
World Wide
Participants.
.
Participants Travel to Dominican Republic
Independently
Typically Participants Work
in Groups of Varies
Application Process Involves:
- Online Application plus Application Assessment
Typically The Application Process Time Is 1 Week
Post Services Include:
Orphanage Outreach - Teach Corps's Mission Statement: Orphanage Outreach provides opportunities to orphaned, abandoned, and disadvantaged children. Our goals are to assist the orphanage we work with to provide the basic necessities, a quality education, and help them become self-sufficient.
Year Founded: 1995