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Jóvenes de Buena Voluntad is an organization that offers an international volunteer program where the foreign volunteers not only participate in activities with the local volunteers but also have the opportunity to live with a family from the community and thereby experience an active cultural exchange. It is located in the outskirts of Lima and works mainly with juvenile gangs, hooligans, drug problems and teenage pregnancies.

For more information you can visit www.jovenesdebuenavoluntad.es.tl (for the moment only Spanish version)

- Projects:

International Winter Work camp (July/August): develop activities to improve the community; it also puts an emphasis on establishing tolerance, participation, intercultural learning, living together and solidarity

Learning by Teaching (April-November): supports the teaching the children obtain from school with workshops for personal development and personal skills



Learning in the summer (January-March): entertains the children during their vacation by doing workshops, cultural and recreational excursions, camping and other recreational activities.

Receiving a Smile (December): collection and distribution of Christmas presents for children’s poor of Ventanilla

Accommodation: opportunity to live with a family from the community

- Experience/Requirements: basic knowledge of Spanish, motivation, ability to work with children and teenagers

- Profil of the Volunteer: Adults at the of 18-30, former work with children is appreciated, patient, motivated, flexible (there is no fixed schedule)



- Benefits to volunteer: certification, explanation of history, objectives and operation of Jóvenes de Buena Voluntad

Jose Luis Quiñones Custodio
www.jovenesdebuenavoluntad.es.tl
5115535580
jovenesdebuenavoluntad@hotmail.com