📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Benposta would like to improve the quality of life of these indigenous children and give them a realistic chance to help their families by being properly educated. Where they live either there is no school or the school is not working, often their parents either cannot or do not want to educate their children (they often send them to work on the fields instead of sending them to school, if there is a functioning school).
Education, health care, alimentation, formation in different craftsmen ships (gardening, cooking, etc.) in different areas of Venezuela:
• Isla de Zapara, EDO Zulia (a free of charge canteen and craftsmen workshop)
• Colegio de Benposta with about 400 students and an apartment for 20 students (residents of Benposta) within the school
• Los Frailes, EDO Zulia
o free of charge canteen for 180 children
o health care centre, dentist, library, shop, multi-purpose hall, kitchen
o houses for 20-40 children from Benposta
o a day-care house for 50 children between the age of 0-6 years from Monday to Friday, where they get medical attention, healthy food and clothes
💼 What the programme involves
1. Most important is an improvement of the quality of life ;
2. Educate the children so they can claim their rights and defend their race;
3. Educate the children (through 'benposta', which is a proven pedagogic concept) to become leaders in their communities;
4. Children shall bring the knowledge and things they learn back to their roots;
5. Give them a broader vision of life and the world: culture, eat healthy food, boil water to make it drinkable, waste management, recycling, make them aware of environmental issues, maintain and conserve the nature, sexual education to avoid 11 year old girls getting pregnant (which is still happening frequently), conserve their roots, make handcraft and maintain their native language.
🏠 Accommodation on site
It depends from the place of your project, accomodation and food will be provided
📍 About the location
• Excursions when finished with the work (Needs to be asked for and discussed with staff in advance!)
ℹ️ Additional information
Projet indisponible en juillet et en août. Disponible tout le restant de l'année