Share your smile and support the boys and girls in the Belén neighborhood 🌟
The experience
With your participation in the Belén neighborhood in Iquitos – Peruvian Amazon, we can generate a positive impact on the lives of the children in the community. During the week, you will dedicate a maximum of 3 hours per day to supporting after-school tutoring classes for 25 boys and girls. It will be an experience full of learning, guidance, and mutual help, where your time and energy will contribute to the educational and personal development of the community. 📖
What you offer
3 hours of help per day
Teaching Sports:
Teaching or assisting the host, guests, or local communities in practicing sports or physical activities.
Social Work:
Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.
Teaching Languages:
Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.
Additional fee required
Amount:
€ 12
Per day
Fee pays for:
Donation to project
Description:
The volunteers will contribute a symbolic amount of 10 euros per day to cover the costs of breakfast, lunch, and dinner for themselves. Our project is purely communal, in service to the people. Also for washing the sheets, among other things. In the little house we do not have internet, since it is a communal space.
What you get
2 days off per week
Private Room:
You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.
Shared Dorm:
You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.
Breakfast:
You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.
Lunch:
You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.
Dinner:
You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.
Discounts on Tours:
Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.
Pick Up:
We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.
Certificate:
Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.
Requirements
Beginner Spanish or Beginner German
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
Casa Joabe is a community-based youth program located in the Belén neighborhood in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon. Our aim is to provide safe, educational, and cultural spaces for children, adolescents, and young Belén residents through social, artistic, and recreational activities.
The program promotes:
community education,
youth leadership,
art and culture,
recreation,
environmental awareness,
and emotional support.
Activities & Shift
Children attend from Monday to Friday, 3:30–5:30 p.m., to help them with their school homework; if they do not have homework, we support them anyway. We reinforce their reading comprehension and mathematics.
Rules
No smoking in the academic reinforcement space.
Do not give money to the children.
And at home we have a kitten named 'Shakira'.