Sarah Horton is volunteering in our Media and Arts Project in Bolivia. She gets to spend the whole day surrounded by beautiful art and helps the local staff organize exhibitions and develop their website.
Read about her first two weeks in Santa Cruz, Bolivia:
Our local coordinator Camilo accompanied volunteers Tarquin and Megan on their first day of their environmental conservation project in Costa Rica.
Here is his report from their volunteer project:
Six new volunteers arrived in San Ramon, Costa Rica last weekend and one of the new teaching English volunteers, Jessica, filled the spots of Nikki and Moritz, who left us a few weeks ago, at a rural school in San Ramon. The teacher there and all of the kids are extremely appreciative of volunteers, especially because our volunteers help out the teacher with proper pronunciation so she can give more individual support to her students.
As is customary with all new volunteers, our coordinator Laura brought Jessica on her first day volunteering and this is what she reported from their trip:
New volunteers always arrive, but the past two weeks I’ve been saying a lot of goodbyes to volunteers that I’ve grown to love. As hard as it is for volunteers to leave each other though, saying farewell to the children they have gotten to know and love through teaching is sometimes even harder. Laura and I visited Nikki and Moritz on their last day teaching English and got to see how important they have become, as teachers and role models, to their students. The energetic and adorable second-graders almost caused Nikki to fall over backwards with the force of their hugs, and then they chased Moritz down the hall to keep him from leaving. Check out a video of that on our youtube page!
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Jody arrived in San Ramon this weekend and is, in my opinion, so fortunate to be volunteering in the community center in Bajo Tejares, a project that I absolutely loved volunteering in a few weeks ago. Bajo Tejares is an underserved neighborhood of San Ramon and kids can go to the community center for afterschool enrichment and academic support that most aren’t able to get at home. When volunteering there it’s easy to see how one safe and nurturing place like this can really change a kid’s life and keep them out of trouble.
Laura accompanied Jody on her first day volunteering with the kids. Here is her report from the site:
After returning from our amazing week-long trip, Monday meant back to work for the volunteers. Even though we all missed the beautiful beaches, most volunteers agreed it was really refreshing to come home to San Ramon - fewer bugs, and after so much sun we even appreciated San Ramon’s milder weather.
For some volunteers Monday was the first day on their projects. Camilo took Erica to her first day on her orphanage project where she will be working with another uVolunteer Daniela.
Read Camilo’s report about Erica’s first day on her volunteer project:
Moritz volunteered teaching English at Escuela Bolivar in San Ramon last year and on Monday returned to the school to cheering and applauding children. He feels great to be back with so many of the same kids and the same teachers, and happy that he could keep his promise to return that he made last summer. Camilo accompanied him on his first day back to volunteering and according to Camilo, Moritz is like a “rock star” in the school.
Read Camilo’s full report:
Jessie Durrett just finished volunteering for four weeks in Cusco, Peru. She loved her home stay, particularyly for the opportunity to practice her Spanish, and all of the other volunteers that she worked with at the girl’s shelter.
Read her full volunteer story:
Jen Paskach has been volunteering in our teaching English project in Cusco for the past three weeks. She is volunteering at a local after school program that provides academic support and extracurricular activities to underprivileged children.
Read an update from the first half of her trip:
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