Day Care Center for Children with HIV

Project Details

This day care for children ages 6-16 years old offers daily care and attention to those who live with the reality of AIDS or HIV. Some of the children have lost family members due to this disease and others have been infected themselves. In the center, the children receive lunch, an afternoon snack, homework support, and enjoy a variety of workshops that include dancing, singing, handicrafts, computers, sexual education, and English classes. All children come from very impoverished neighborhoods and have received little formal education.

Volunteer Responsibilities

Volunteers are needed to help with any and all of the workshops and can even create their own! Teaching positive values and hygiene habits are very important to providing basic tools that the children will need to live healthy lives. Volunteers will also help to organize other recreational activities as well as provide academic support through tutoring.

Location

The day-care center is located in the Parque Patricios neighborhood in Buenos Aires City. All volunteers will be taken to their host family upon arrival and given an orientation within the first few days.

Accommodations and Meals

Volunteers will stay with carefully screened host families for the duration of the program. Two meals a day with your host family are included in your stay.

**No meals are served on Sundays.

Requirements

Minimum commitment of 6 weeks. Experience or education in counseling, teaching and/or childcare is helpful, but not required. An intermediate level of Spanish is required. Spanish lessons are available prior to the volunteer project in Buenos Aires for an additional fee.

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Feel free to contact us by phone toll free (in the U.S. only), 1-888-ABROAD-1 (888-227-6231).

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