📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Within the public educational system, the USAER Service has the objective of assisting students with special educational needs, with or without disabilities. The program promotes meaningful learning through strategies, activities and didactic materials that help the learning and evaluation that the students present within their curricular performance, helping to evaluate and increase the quality of the education provided in these schools.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will be involved in activities such as:
- Workshops for children will be divided into two blocks, the first comprising 1st to 3rd grade and the second from 4th to 6th grade. The workshops will be given twice a week. The main objective is to offer children an option of activities that stimulate and develop their creative skills through music, dance, play, crafts.
- Parent workshops "It is worth crying mom, it's worth crying dad", it is a space created for parents who are in mourning, to develop skills and create their own tools to recognize and heal the loss generated by a death or disability of a relative.
- "My reading corner" children narrators. Inculcate the taste for reading through the approach with stories and comic strips (morning shift)
- "The information tour": Conferences for parents about different topics of interest (once a month).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in a house adapted for volunteers with basic conditions. Meals will be prepared by the group of volunteers by turning teams.
📍 About the location
San Cristóbal de las Casas, also known by its native Tzotzil name, Jovel, is a town and municipality located in the Central Highlands region of the Mexican state of Chiapas. It was the capital of the state until 1892, and is still considered the cultural capital of Chiapas.
The municipality is mostly made up of mountainous terrain, but the city sits in a small valley surrounded by hills. The city’s center maintains its Spanish colonial layout and much of its architecture, with red tile roofs, cobblestone streets and wrought iron balconies often with flowers. Most of the city’s economy is based on commerce, services and tourism. Tourism is based on the city’s history, culture and indigenous population, although the tourism itself has affected the city, giving it foreign elements. Major landmarks of the city include the Cathedral, the Santo Domingo church with its large open air crafts market and the Casa Na Bolom museum. The municipality has suffered severe deforestation, but it has natural attractions such as caves and rivers.
⚠️ Requirements
Interest in the theme of non-formal education, work with children and art will be very welcomed.