📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This Project is developed in cooperation with the Hotel and Restaurant “La Cascada”, VIMEX, A.C. and the teacher María Núñez Michel, a neuro-psychologist. The aim of this project lies in offering to youngsters, kids and grown ups from the community of el Salto de Eyipantla a space to develop the initiation, growth, assessment and formation in educative areas such as arts, sports and culture. The commitment is to motivate and to incite the development of cognitive, communicative and driving skills.
💼 What the programme involves
The work will be done in the Tuxtlas zone, hand-craft, sport, artistical and cultural activities will be realized in the community “Salto de Eyiplantla” with children and youngsters between 14-16 years old.
Reforestation activities such as the cleaning of an established area cut the grass, to plant trees and other plants.
At the end of the project, we will organize a camp from Friday to Saturday in the water park (where one of the Apocalypto films was shooted)
🏠 Accommodation on site
: The accomodation will be in tents at the garden of the hotel “La Cascada”, the volunteers will have access to all the facilities they also will have to clean and take care of them.
Food will be prepared by the volunteers themselves or by the women from the community.
📍 About the location
In the free time it is possible to visit different places such as the tobacco factory, the waterfall, in this place you can find handmade crafts, restaurants, temazcal, etc., it is possible to go by bike to the Enchanted Lagoon, it is possible to visit Catemaco where the Natural Reserve “Nanciyaga” is a famous place and also a visit to the beach is able.
⚠️ Requirements
Good disposal to the team work, dedication, be responsible and enthusiastic to work with children and adolescents. Bring clothes adequate for the activities. Please bring your own insurance and sleeping bag. In your own volunteer exchange form. Please write what cultural, arts, handicraft and sport activities you can teach during the camp (think about what you wish to teach; something interesting in order to transmit your emotions). We would like to ask you to bring a presentation in power point of your country with 10 sliders and, if possible, typical clothes of your country, as well you can bring a typical musical instrument and music.
ℹ️ Additional information
You can take the Intensive Spanish Course that we offer to the volunteers in our camps before to go to your project. See the information and conditions at the section of the Spanish Courses 2016.