📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Share fun and interesting activities about your culture to Mexican students and discover the magic of Mexico!
For the last 3 years, this had been a very successful project where international volunteers organize meaningful and life changing activities! The objective is to promote a cultural exchange, intercultural global education and life project through a program involving international volunteers and students of the Agricultural Technology Center School No. 233.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will be part of the Agricultural Technology Center School No. 233 team and will be facilitators of workshops, classes essentially to practice English language, but also other languages that the volunteer wants to share with driven dynamics. Some of the activities to be developed are:
1. To prepare and provide English classes for the students of Agricultural Technology Center School No. 233.
2. To drive workshops and dynamics to practice language and share their culture in an entertaining way.
3. To promote cultural exchange and international volunteerism
4. To produce creative teaching materials for language classes.
Volunteers also will encourage cultural exchange with students, through English speaking clubs.
By participating in this project, you will acquire the global skills of Adaptability, Global Awareness, Strategic Thinking and Collaborative Planning, after the participation in the project volunteers will receive an official letter certifying these skills.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will be host in a house of a local family with all the facilities: hot water, showers, kitchen, WIFI.
📍 About the location
Activities will be organized at Morelia city, a very beautiful place and the state capital of Michoacan it's a most dynamic and beautiful city, Morelia is an increasingly popular destination, and rightly so: the colonial heart of the city is so well preserved that it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1991, and its cathedral is not just gorgeous, it's inspirational.
Morelia, founded in 1541, was one of the first Spanish cities in Nueva España. The first viceroy, Antonio de Mendoza, named it Valladolid after the Spanish city and he encouraged Spanish nobility to move here with their families. In 1828, after Nueva España had become the Republic of Mexico, the city was renamed Morelia in honor of local hero José María Morelos y Pavón, a key figure in Mexico's independence.
Read more: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/mexico/western-central-highlands/morelia/introduction#ixzz4WVZJrpPP
Read more: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/585/gallery/
You can walk in downtown which has many cultural activities and discover the variety of historic buildings and monuments, for those looking to surround themselves by natural wonders, such as the Island of Janitzio or the ancient pyramids of Tzintzuntzan, the magical towns of Patzcuaro, Santa Clara del Cobre, and several ceremonial centers of the Mesoamerican pre-Hispanic culture. During the weekends you can visit two of the biggest cities in the country, Mexico City and Guadalajara, both cities are 3 hours from Morelia, there are also many interesting places that you can visit during your stay.
ℹ️ Additional information
Volunteers will have food and hosting provided during the whole duration of the project. Volunteers participating in MTV projects will receive a training for intercultural learning and a Spanish course in the city of Morelia before starting the project in the project site, due to lack of communal resources for this camp we ask participants to contribute 200 Euro towards the costs of general administration. This fee hast to be pay upon arrival in Morelia city.