📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
ICYE Colombia
💼 What the programme involves
Alternate day or complementary to the school day: It is a space for coexistence, preventive, socializing which seeks to address spiritual needs, emotional, educational, nutritional deficiencies and basic needs, prevent abuse and neglect of those children who are going to school in the morning and left alone for the
rest of the day in their rooms or in the street, exposed to physical and emotional risks such as crime, alcoholism, drug abuse, exploitation and violence. They get lunch and refreshments and activities of tutoring, counseling duties, value formation is performed and directed recreation.
School Restaurant: It provides properly balanced lunch for children who study in the afternoon and face problems of poverty and malnutrition, which go home without having the opportunity to receive basic food.
Workshop for parents: Complementary to these programs we offer workshops aimed for parents with the purpose of creating commitment and responsibility in the education and training of their children.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Host family outside the project.
📍 About the location
This project is located in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia and the department of Cundinamarca. Bogotá is the most populous city of the nation, with an estimated 7,500,000 inhabitants. It is the biggest city in Colombia, the third highest in the world above sea level and known for its high number of universities, libraries and particularly for its cultural events. A part of the project will take place in Bosa, a very poor area of the Colombian capital. Indigenous groups, peasants, black communities, and thousands of people from different ethnic origins live there.
ℹ️ Additional information
Minimum stay is 4 weeks, maximum is 16 weeks. Fee of 370 € is for 4 weeks; each additional week is 75 €. Placement on this project is individual. Open all year, arrival date is free.