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OrphanageWork & Childcare
OrphanageWork
Volunteering in an orphanage is one of the most necessary and worthwhile placements you can dedicate your time, support and skills to. Our volunteers contribute to the growth and quality of orphanages on an ongoing basis.
The orphanages we work with endeavour to provide children with a home-like environment. Placements offer the incredible opportunity to support these establishments in their effort to provide a higher quality of life for these children.
Whether you are helping in the general maintenance and running of the centre, working with the children in areas of childhood development or simply getting involved in sport and recreational activities, your help will have a positive effect on the lives of these children and the Orphanage as a whole.
In many cases children have been abandoned by their parents as they felt ill equipped to take care of them. In other cases the children may have parents but come from very disadvantaged home environments and may have behavioural difficulty.This extra care is what a volunteer can provide these children.
What’s involved?
There are orphanages of all shapes and sizes dotted around Asia, Africa and South America, where we send our volunteers to help out. Your role as a volunteer will differ depending on the age of the children, the country you are in, and the funds and materials available to the centre.
Range of duties: • Helping to bath, feed and change the babies and toddlers.
• Planning extra curricular activities, physical education, music and culture, indoor/outdoor games and organising beach and farm trips.
• Helping with the vegetable garden and some special environmental awareness campaigns like Clean Up the Orphanage with the kids.
• Helping to prepare teaching and learning materials/ teaching children in a subject that interests you.
• Helping to maintain children in the orphanage by giving them the necessary care and attention as their mothers would have given them.
USIT offer Orphanage volunteer placements in: • Ghana
• Thailand • Peru
Length of Placements: All from 4 weeks (no max duration). 16 For more details visit:
www.usit.ie call: 01 6021742 email:
volunteer@usit.ie
Range of duties: • Day care centre work with children.
• Special education camps and bridge courses to children of immigrant and slum dwelling families.
• Computer education to the children for a variety of population segments which may include orphanages, groups of local women and adolescent girls.
USIT offer Childcare volunteer placements in: • Ghana
• Peru Childcare
In addition to Orphanage work, early childhood care and education is an area of critical importance in rural and disadvantaged areas. We have hadmany participants volunteer in this area, resulting in a positive impact on the children and in the centres.
Generally, a child care centre is a facility established to ensure healthy growth and stimulation of children in rural areas.At such centres health monitoring, improvement of motor skills, nutritional supplements, vaccinations etc. are provided for children from poor or uneducated families. The purpose of childcare is to protect the child’s right to develop to his or her full cognitive, emotional and social potential.
Volunteering in the area of childcare is both a rewarding and challenging experience. Volunteers must be flexible and willing to help wherever is needed.
What’s involved?
Childcare facilities can all differ greatly. In our placements there are opportunities which vary from creating an enjoyable safe environment for children to working with children with special needs in a rehabilitation center for children.
• Mozambique • South Africa • India
• Vietnam Length of Placements: All from 4 weeks (no max duration).
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