📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
ICYE Honduras
💼 What the programme involves
'Jardín de Niños Eusebio Pineda Cantón' is a public kindergarten that provides pre-school education to approximately 35 children between 4 to 5 years old.
The kindergarten's mission is to guarantee educational services for children, helping them in their human development, with the support and participation of the parents, educational entities, government and the community in general.
The kindergarten's main objectives are: to improve the quality and efficiency of the educational processes at pre-school level, guaranteeing coverage of various subjects and forming future citizens engaged with their community and country.
The kindergarten's main activities are:
Teach the basic pedagogic subjects of pre-school education.
Civic and cultural activities according to the planned schedule.
Physical education activities
Volunteer tasks:
Teach basic English.
Assist in the dance lessons (typical Honduran dances).
Creating different types of handicrafts and teach them to the children.
Learning about different Honduran traditional games and playing with the children.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Living with a Host Family.
📍 About the location
San Francisco de Yojoa is a small peasant village of approximately 2,000 3,000 people, located 86 km south of San Pedro Sula, close to the Lake of Yojoa and the Pulhapanzak Waterfalls. It is a municipality of the industrial department Cortés.
The majority of the population is Catholics, but there are also many families that are Evangelic or Protestants. Religion forms a big important part of the population.
It's a remote rural area and economic activity is mostly in agricultural sectors like coffee, plantations and sugar cane.
This village is a very secure and calm place with many welcoming inhabitants. Many foreigners have come to live here through ICYE Honduras; hence the inhabitants are used to treating foreigners and understand that at the beginning they don't speak fluent Spanish.
ℹ️ Additional information
Volontariat de 4 à 16 semaines; frais supplémentaires de 370€ pour le 1er mois, puis 65€ par semaine. Placement individuel, programme ouvert toute l'année