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We are looking for volunteers with a degree or experience in nutrition to work with our children. You will work in conjunction with our Brazilian cooks. As a nutritionist at Casa do Caminho you will have the following key responsibilities
• Evaluate and improve the existing nutrition system
• Create a nutrition guide for the three houses
• Produce monthly nutrition plan
• Give advice and training to the cooks and give suggestions for improvements.
• Work closely with the children and teenagers to teach them about healthy eating

What are the requirements?
• Age minimum: 21 years
• Intermediate Portuguese skills
• 6 month - 2 year volunteer/trainee period
• Degree or experience in Nutrition
• Ideally experience in working with children and teenagers

Who are we?
Casa do Caminho is situated in the middle of a rainforest, outside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The orphanage aims to take children away from aggression, drugs & criminality in Rio and surrounding suburbs. It provides these children with shelter, nutrition, education and a lot of freedom to play. Your help is needed because international volunteers bring new knowledge and enthusiasm to Casa do Caminho from which the children and staff can learn from!

What do we offer?
The volunteer program at Casa do Caminho is completely free. Volunteers receive airport escort, accommodation, food, training, portuguese classes and access to “capoeira” classes. Volunteering at Casa do Caminho is a unique cultural experience – you will get to know the brazilian culture, have the freedom to set up your own projects and the children will make you feel at home from the very first second!

More information about the programme and Casa do Caminho can also be found at: www.casadocaminhobrasil.org

If you are interested, please do not hesitate to apply online on http://www.kww-southamerica.org/content/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=108.