📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Volunteers For Peace is excited to continue our support and connection with Institution Mixte du Progres primary school in Desab, Haiti. This is a school approximately 300 children ages 5-13 (with some being much older) in a very rural setting about an hour north of Port au Prince. We have had international volunteers serving at the school for the entire year. This will be the second summer that we offer the day camp for area kids.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will be running a day camp for 150-200 kids ages 5-12. The camp will run from 9-12 each day and a meal will be provided to the students each afternoon.
You will need to work together with the Haitian teachers and leaders and American leader to create your daily plan consisting of educational and language activities, art, sports, and other skills you have. What and how you teach will depend on the skill and interest of the volunteers in the group. If you have a skill like yoga, dance, drama, art, music, sport...we need you!
The community also very much appreciates English lessons being offered each evening and we would like to continue that tradition.
🏠 Accommodation on site
During your time in Desab you will stay in a dormitory next to the school. Accommodations are very simple, there is no running water, meals will be prepared by community members with the help of volunteers. Beds with mattresses and sheets are provided. There is a generator and solar panel for electricity. Showers are taken in the open air! There is an outhouse for the volunteers.
Volunteers will stay in the TCHAKA Inn in Port au Prince on the first day and last day of the project. This inn is located in Port au Prince and is a safe and exciting way to experience the city and compare it to Desab. The inn has beds with mattresses, pillows, sheets and towels. There are 2 indoor toilets with showers but no hot water. The inn is located in the home of a VFP family and there is a lot of opportunity to interact with the children and other family members, cook together, and experience life in Haiti.
Two meals are provided each day. They are typical Haitian meals and center around rice and beans as well as fruit and vegetables that are in season. Both locations have Biosand water filters to ensure clean drinking water.
📍 About the location
Most of your free time will be spent sharing culture and friendship with local community members and kids! There will be opportunities to hike to a waterfall, attend church, play soccer and participate in other community activities.
At the start of the project you will have a ½ day tour of Port au Prince. On the middle weekend you will have a day at the beach to enjoy the beautiful Caribbean ocean. It is really beautiful and a relaxing change from the rural mountain area where you will be serving.
⚠️ Requirements
$400 extra fee is payable to Volunteers For Peace by July 1, 2016. This full fee is transferred to Haiti to pay for your project and support the community where you are serving. The fee includes meals and accommodations, leadership, translators, in country transportation, tours and cultural activities, and a contribution to provide the students with a meal each day.
ℹ️ Additional information
Families are welcome to attend this project together.
Knowledge of French or Creole very helpful.
VFP does not provide insurance for this program.
Arrival and departure dates can be flexible.