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📚🌍Teach English or German in Oxapampa, Peru (Peruvian Amazon)


The experience

Join our team as a language volunteer! You will teach English or German to a diverse group of children, teenagers, and adults. The schedule is fixed for 3 hours every afternoon/evening, Monday through Friday, totaling a maximum of 20 hours per week. You'll be responsible for preparing engaging lessons based on a provided teaching plan. It’s a rewarding way to share your skills and make a real impact in our community.


What you offer

20 hours of help per week

Music: Perform to entertain guests, children or local communities.

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Teaching Sports: Teaching or assisting the host, guests, or local communities in practicing sports or physical activities.

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.


What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely


Requirements

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers


What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa


Program Details

We provide free English and German lessons for children, teenagers and adults, in a public library in Oxapampa, Pasco, Peru.
We are looking for volunteers that are fluent in English or German and have creative teaching ideas such as playing games, singing, storytelling, acting other activities. The focus should be on developing curiosity about other cultures and experiencing language as a communication tool and part of a culture. Volunteers can also organize workshops for kids as football matches, arts and crafts, environmental education, drama and so on. The idea is to connect the new language abilities with positive emotions. Volunteers could build teaching materials such as posters, cards, and games with vocabulary to subject or writing down songs, rhymes and so on for other volunteers.
Desired Skills: fluent in English or German, team worker, self-confidence, good communication, problem solving, positive attitude, decision maker, Microsoft Office and creative.
TEFL or German teaching certificate are not a requirement but, they are a plus.





Activities & Shift

We work Monday to Friday from 4:00pm to 7:00pm.
On a typical day, volunteers prepare their class in advance with the topics to be taught and/or creating new activities for teaching. Volunteers can also help in other activities depending on their skills.


Rules

Drinking alcohol in public areas (street) is forbidden by Peruvian laws.
Because of our educational project, we do not accept volunteers with drug abuse problems. Volunteers with inappropriate behaviors that violate our rules will be immediately expelled from our project and exhorted to leave our community during the next 48 hours after their expulsion.