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Casa Esperanza Frutillar

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About the project

Casa Esperanza Frutillar

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

School for children with special needs. Constantly they need help with these children, playing with them, teaching different things, and sharing with them. The mission of this school is to provide to the students a comprehensive program that includes:
-Drug and alcohol prevention
-Sexuality education
-Environmental care
-Promotion of healthy living

Community Center (Saturdays) is one of the projects of the House of Hope Frutillar. It is a project with the focus to be involved with all the children and youth and be a recreational time where they may discover and develop their artistic, language, and academic skills. This project provides workshops in music and crafts. Also, it is a time for tutoring on English and math reinforcing what they learn in class and clarifying any doubts, helping them in anything that is needed for them to be successful in their classes. It is also provided a lunch meal.

💼 What the programme involves

-Flexibility
-Proactivity
-Communicate with the leaders of the foundation Vision for Children
-To assist other teachers
-To interact with children
-Get involved with daily team activities
-Kitchen, cleaning, and woodwork

Volunteers take the bus or walk to get to school in the morning. Arrive to the school around 09:30 a.m. They must help in all activities, especially in class topics, breaks, and extra activities. The participants must prepare extra activities. Also, they share with children in lunch time, helping them to eat. Around 4p.m. they take the bus back to their residences.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers live in Our Student Residences and go to the school every day.

🍲 Food

Chilean food, 3 times per day 7 days per week,

📍 About the location

Futillar is neighborhood is one of the poorest and most vulnerable areas of Lake Region.
Pantanosa is a ghetto community. There is a 30% of the youth that are 18 years old that do not finished highschool.
Most kids suffer from domestic violence or live in orphanages because their parents cannot feed them or have judicial issues. Children are in much need of care and attention.

🎒 Leisure activities

Llanquigue Lake, Chiloe, Volcanos, others.
This video is 10 min from our house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OVKnM3oigQ

ℹ️ Additional information

Participation fees with Housing, Chilenan food, dormitory and bathroom: 550 Euros per month

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📅 Available sessions

CE-19-CEF

26/09/2019 → 31/12/2019

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 10
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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

550.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Frutillar, Los Lagos, Chile

Chile

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Chile Peso (CLP / $)

Exchange rate

1 CLP = 0.000923 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Chile Summer Time

Local time: 21:14 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Spanish