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Peru - various programmes availabe

Activities : Care Work / Childcare / Community Projects
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Country : Peru
Region : South America
Duration : 8 weeks

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A veriety of placements are avaiable in this beautiful county.

Details of just a few of the many placements we have in Peru:- 8 week placements, 4weeks on a Spanish Language Course then 4 weeks on your chosen programme.

*Various kinds of work related to the care of elderly people, including helping to feed them, bathing them, cutting their fingernails and hair, dressing them as well as personal attention in recreation, for example, playing ball with them, drawing, walking around with them, games like bingo, dancing, singing, etc. The elderly people like having foreigners around and start smiling once you walk in the door.

*Childrens Home:-This home functions under the direction of the Social security and Charity of Cusco.
The home has the capacity for 50 children and teenagers that have been abandoned. The ages of these children vary between 7 and l7 years.

Special attention is given in core values to prepare the children for adulthood through specially prepared work-shops, lectures and training. All this is done in the mornings and in the afternoons the children attend school. The training courses are: - Woodcarving - Tailoring - shoe makers

*Youth Centre:-This is a social reintegration programme for children and teenagers offenders of the law, ages vary among 12 - 17 years. The activities that carry out are divided into four areas.
1.- Educational Programme: Offers an occupational program with the aim of developing personal aptitudes and practical skills including :- carpentry, shoemaking, sewing, handicrafts etc. carpentry, shoemaking, sewing, handicrafts, and farming.

2.- Educational modules: Offers a formative programme with the objective of developing self- esteem and cultural identity. (one of the volunteers is a qualified psychologist.) Also orient the adolescents in personal themes of formation, values, sexual orientation, prevention of alcoholism and other subjects.

3.- Modules of Learning: Children and adolescents receive classes of: culture, identity, ecology, health, communication and English.

4.- Recreational Activities: Participation in sports activities (soccer, basket and ping pong), the center has it own sport facilities. Artistic activities (dances, painting, chorus and theater).

*Travel Agent:- As an intern, you will have the opportunity to assist and participate in each aspect of the business. They have set up a schedule for you as follows:
First week: Reservations Department
Second week: Coordination Department
Third week: Bookings Department
Fourth week: Airline Ticketing
Fifth week: Passenger Services