Buenos Aires Centre:

Description:

Participate in a community service project improving your Spanish skills while you are living with a family. Our Programs give you a unique opportunity to learn about the people and culture of Argentina while contributing your time, talent and skills to a variety of volunteer activities.

Based on useful relations and contacts with different Foundations, and organizations Buenos Aires Centre offers opportunities for practical training and voluntary works where volunteers will have the opportunity to visit various projects and decide where they would most like to work.
Overview: Volunteers who join these projects have the option of combining Volunteer Work and Spanish Lessons. Volunteers taking Spanish classes who join the project for a minimum of 8 weeks and more. Spanish classes run for 4 hours daily. Course structure have useful phrases and words that you will encounter and require on your Volunteering experience. It is highly recommended since that, you take advantage of additional private Spanish classes included to ensure your enjoyment of the program, as well as to reach a maximization of your contribution to the children, adult and oldest people in need.

Field Conditions:

Living with a family is possible to acquire an enriching cultural experience and the valuable opportunity to practice Spanish. The family provides two home cooked meals daily.

Duration:

Minimum 8 up to 36 weeks. Start dates every Monday all year round. It is recommendable that all volunteers arrive over the weekend.

Volunteer must be committed to volunteer work, interested in learning about the people and culture of Argentina, open, flexible and able to relate well to the community. These programs are open to World Wide participants. Skilled (doctors, psycologists, social workers, lawyers) and unskilled volunteers are welcome.

Age range:

For Legal, Social Work, Health and Other Projects for Community a minimum of age 18 is required, and must have completed secondary school.

Some Programs to develop as Volunteer

• Programa "Asistir"
• Programa "Fortalecer"
• Program "Acogimiento familiar"
• Programa "Apalabrando silencios"
• Programa "Metamorfosis"
• Programa "Cooperación Mutua para adolescentes en situación de conflicto con la ley y sus familias"

These programs were born as a strategy to develop the conditions of life in the population of Buenos Aires Province. In 1999 an agreement is made with the Center of Investigation and Psicosomatic Assistance - Centro de Investigación y Asistencia Psicosomática (CIAPSI) giving their settings and professional teams to supervise the project.

Mission:

Develop legal, psicologic, medical, social, and educational strategies to develop a better quality of life to the people looking and considering health as a balance "psico bio social"

Programa "Distribución de alimentos"

Mission: Helping to distributing food to Argentine organizations of help to homeless, children and elder and homes, school soup kitchens, etc. Administrative clerk, distribution in warehouses, etc.

Living arrangement: Homestays

Fees will include: Two Meals and Housing in host family.Orientation/Training for Volunteer Work.

Language instruction (Group and private to prepare for volunteer work). Some Volunteer Works require Intermediate and Advanced levels.

Airport transfers. Cultural tours are provided.

Fees 2005 by 8 weeks USD 3,150 + USD 200 by registration and reservation fees

We provide Volunteer placement assistance as a free service.

Fees do not include international travel. Volunteers must pay your lunch meals and your mobilization to the work.