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Teach Children in Mozambique (STA exclusive) - TDMCTT
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Day 1 Vilanculos
Arrive in Vilanculos. Make your own way to the beach accommodation for your first night. Enjoy your first day in Vilanculos free at leisure as you will only be picked up for your volunteer portion in the morning of day 2 at 7 am. You will stay at the volunteer house only from Day 2 onwards.
Day 2-6 Volunteering in Vilanculos (5B,5L,5D)
Day 2-6 Volunteering in Vilanculos (5B,5L,5D) You will be picked up at 7am by your project manager and taken to your volunteer house. Volunteers will assist the teacher by providing extra support for the students, and carry out with English language classes using flash cards, games and objects. Mornings and afternoons will be spent assisting teachers at the schools, as well as helping out local community projects. Lunch and dinner is prepared for you back at the project house, with evenings free to relax and socialize. Activities can vary from day-to-day and week to week, depending on the number of volunteers, time of year and what is most needed at the time of your visit. Programs with which you may be volunteering can include: Pre-school teaching - Your role at the pre-school is as a teacher, preparing the children for their next step into primary school, and can involve the following: - Singing and dancing with the children in English, Portuguese and Xitsua - Developing the children’s imagination and creative skills through crafts such as painting, drawing and colouring - Teaching basic lessons about colours, numbers, letters and knowledge of the world in English with the assistance of a translator - Giving the children the opportunity to let off some steam through fun games and structured physical education classes - Helping to prepare the lunch for the children - General upkeep of the school to keep it a pleasant environment in which to learn - Some basic work at the preschool farm, aimed at providing a source of sustainable income for the preschool. Teaching English 2 afternoons a week we currently teach English to a group of about fifty students split into groups depending on ability, ranging in age from young to middle-aged adults. Volunteers are responsible for designing and delivering the lesson plans, which are always interactive and fun with the use of flash cards, games, objects and worksheets. Volunteers encourage active participation from the students by reading out loud, role-playing, writing on the board and participating in educational games. The English lessons are free for the students and open to anyone from the community at-large. They offer an amazing and rare opportunity for the people of Vilanculos to increase their knowledge of English, which greatly increase their chance of securing employment in Vilanculos’ growing tourism-based economy. Your role as a volunteer can include: - Planning fun, interactive, and challenging lessons for the students - Conducting lessons with the help of a translator in a patient, dynamic, creative, inspirational and passionate manner - Assigning and correction of homework assignments - Getting to know an amazing group of individuals with an inspiring dedication to learning Orphan Care We travel to an orphanage twice a month on a Saturday afternoon to visit the 15 children that live there. As a volunteer you may be involved in the following: - English and Portuguese lessons with the children with the assistance of visual aids and a translator - Developmental playtime where the children get to learn new games and play with toys to which they wouldn't normally have access - Teaching basic lessons about colours, numbers and letters - Constructive sports games such as frisbee and football - Giving the children the one on one care and attention that is so critical for their development Rural Home-Building Cyclone Favio hit the Mozambican coast in February 2007 and devastated much of the local area. African Impact was involved in the initial relief work and assisting international aid agencies. Through our local contacts we have continued with rural home-building for those who do not have the means to build for themselves (monetarily or physically). We work in close conjunction with community leaders to assess the most critical housing needs and then act accordingly. We are currently managing to build 1 home approximately every 2 months (dependent on volunteer numbers!). They are simple and rustic structures typical of construction in the Inhambane Province. The work is sometimes challenging but always rewarding and offers an amazing insight into rural Vilanculos as well as the chance to meet and form working relationships with members of the local community. Other building projects that we undertake include refurbishment at the preschool, such as new classrooms and amenities. Language Club Saturday mornings are spent running and supporting a language club, an informal learning group open to the community surrounding the volunteer camp. The students that attend include young children, young women, and adults, all of whom perhaps have missed out on other formal learning opportunities. The language club is an amazing opportunity for these individuals to pick up some English that can help them procure employment and therefore a more stable lifestyle. Activities you may be involved in: - Playing creative language learning games, such as bingo and pairs game to encourage fun learning - Arts and crafts as a means of increasing vocabulary, with themes such as sea-life and the animal world - More formal English lessons with advanced students, keen to further their education in their spare time - Singing in English and Portuguese Other Community Projects There are a number of other community projects that we are involved in the afternoons. These include maintaining the farm at the pre-school, painting projects at the pre-school to make it an exciting place for the children to learn, beach clean up days and a cultural day once a month at one of the project’s translator’s family home. This is to help the volunteers get immersed and learn about traditional Mozambican culture. An example of a typical volunteer day usually looks like this: - 07:00 Get up, eat breakfast, and start getting ready to depart for your project - 08:00 Head off to the Pre-school - 08:15 Start your work at the pre-school. You will teach a basic lesson to a small group of children, play with them at break time, followed by story time and then assisting with the children’s lunch - 12:00 Lunch break. You will be picked up from the school, and taken to your volunteer camp, where lunch will be waiting for you - 14:30 Start of your afternoon projects - 17:00 End of the working day. You will be picked up from your project and taken home, where all the materials used during the day are put away - 18:30 Dinner at your volunteer camp
Day 7 Vilanculos (B,L)
Volunteer in the mornings (depending on your flight schedule). Depart after lunch, with an included transfer to take you to the airport.
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