📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The NGO Asociación Pro Desarrollo Per Vida is a non- Governmental Development Organization (NGDO) created in Peru, in order to promote the social and human development and improve the poor people's living conditions in the communities by the formulation of innovative programs and projects.
💼 What the programme involves
Project summary:
Improving the present environmental education and creating healthy eating habits for students, families and communities in urban and suburban areas to facilitate a high quality of life.
The environmental education has increased progressively during the last years and our country is no exception. This progress can be realized through sensitizing, training to farming of hydroponic products, as well as the promotion of the research and technology.
The aim of the project is to Develop workshops and create social programs in the educational sector about topics of hydroponic farming in the schools of Lima and provinces. Through the recreative teaching for children that enjoy with the growth of plants farmed thanks to this technique. This type of teaching can be applied to all academic levels, from children to adults.
Activities to be developed by the volunteer:
- Training and introduction to cultivation techniques and teaching of Hydroponics to produce vegetables (1 month in a vegetable garden), in charge of an engineer of the project.
- Participating in awareness workshops and training for students by promoting the advantages of produce and consume hydroponic products
The volunteers will work 06 hours/ Monday to Friday and have 02 days to relax (Saturday and Sunday).
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will live in family house or rent a rooms to be share with other volunteers.
The services they can find in the province: water, electricity, public telephone, cyber-cafes, taxis, bus,etc..
⚠️ Requirements
- Preferentially adults having large doses of caring and sensibility, understanding, perseverance and patience at their disposal, people motivated of maintaining the environment.
- Students, professionals or experts in the areas of environmental technology, industrial engineering, environmental engineering, agronomy, and environmental educators.
- Adaptability and ability to overcome new challenges, teamwork, sharing responsibilities in the coexistence with a multinational team of volunteers.
- Basic/Intermediate level of Spanish language
🤝 Meeting point
Staff of APRODE PERU will pick her/she up at the airport.
ℹ️ Additional information
Fees: 300 euros for the first month then 250 euros per month to pick he/she up the volunteer at the airport, ensure their lodging, feeding, travel cost by bus to the project only one-way, mentoring,etc.