📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Volunteers For Peace is supporting community development, cultural exchange and education in the community of Duchity. We work with the Directors of local schools to identify students and create a summer day camp for the kids. This will be the 4th annual summer camp that VFP offers in Duchity.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will be running a day camp for 100 kids ages 5-12. The camp will run from 9-12 each day. You will need to work together with the Haitian teachers and leaders and American leader to create your daily plan consisting of educational and language activities, art, sports, and other skills you have. What and how you teach will depend on the skill and interest of the volunteers in the group. If you have a skill like yoga, dance, drama, art, music, sport...we need you!
The Vocational school has English courses and the students will appreciate additional opportunities to practice with you.
There will be several days with additional community support projects such as visiting and serving an orphanage, helping in the gardens at the Vocational school, cleaning or repairing rooms at the public schools or clinic.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in the TCHAKA Inn in Port au Prince for the first two days. This inn is located in the home of the Duchity project organizers and is very comfortable. In Duchity volunteers will stay in the vocational school. Beds with mattresses are provided at both locations. All meals are provided but are typical Haitian and center around rice and beans as well as fruit and vegetables that are in season. In all locations Biosand Water Filters are provided so you will have access to clean drinking water.
📍 About the location
Duchity is a village in the mountains of Grand’Anse about a 6 hour drive south east of Port-au-Prince. It is a rural agricultural region with 21 small villages creating a population of about 22,000. Duchity is a beautiful and rural area. There is a local community which volunteers will easily become part of. You will have a lot of time to explore the natural beauty and culture with the new friends you make.
One day on the weekend you will travel to the ocean for a day of relaxation.
The second day of the project will include a tour of Port-au-Prince, visit to the National History Museum, Iron Market, Notre Dame Cathedral and more.
⚠️ Requirements
: $400 extra fee is payable to Volunteers For Peace by June 15, 2016. This full fee is transferred to Haiti to pay for your project and support the community where you are serving. The fee includes meals and accommodations, leadership, translators, in country transportation, tours and cultural activities, and a contribution to the community projects you will serve on.
ℹ️ Additional information
Families are welcome to attend this project together.
Knowledge of French or Creole very helpful.
VFP does not provide insurance for this program.
Arrival and departure dates can be flexible.