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Social Worker (100% free volunteering)
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Location:
Xerem, Rio de Janeiro, 25259-970, Brazil
Organization:
Casa do Caminho - Free Volunteering
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Start date:
September 18, 2009
Sex:
All are welcome
Language(s):
Portuguese
Last updated:
September 18, 2009
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End date:
September 17, 2011
Age:
Adults (18-64)
Area of Focus:
Children and Youth, Community Service and Volunteering, Education and Academia, Health, Mental
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Description:
We are looking for volunteers with a degree or experience in social work to work with our children. You will work together with our Brazilian social worker. As a social worker at Casa do Caminho you will have the following key responsibilities
• Evaluate and improve the existing education/behavioural system
• Give advice and training to the educators and give suggestions for improvements.
• Work closely with the children and teenagers to help them to cope with their past and to improve their social behavior
• Facilitate family visits in the area of Duque de Caxias together with our social worker
• Help our social worker to do administrative paper work.
What are the requirements?
• Age minimum: 21 years
• Intermediate Portuguese skills
• 6 month - 2 year volunteer/trainee period
• Degree or experience in psychology
• 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 in exchange for their services. 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
How to Apply:
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Permalink:
http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/VolunteerOpportunity/144627-164/c
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