PHILIPPINES / Kaya Responsible Travel
Volunteer and help provide safe housing, healthy food, and educational support and to street children in the Philippines. Role models are needed to mentor and teach street children and help them learn to make healthy choices, stay in school, and other guidance to brighten their bleak futures. In the Philippines, more than 250,000 children live on the streets and around 20,000 a year are imprisoned every year. Most of these children survive by begging and scavenging in dumpsites and garbage piles for plastic bottles to recycle for small amounts of money. Many street kids resort to prostitution, and are addicted to sniffing industrial glue, which is cheap and helps silence their hunger pains.
As a volunteer you may be involved in teaching social education (sanitation, health, environment and cultural norms), or improving their English (one of the Philippines’ national languages, often necessary to secure a well paid job). You also may help with homework, carry out arts and crafts activities, and play games and sports with them. Your presence also gives the children a chance to interact and learn from people with different cultures.
You are required to volunteer for around 4 to 5 hours per day, usually between 8am and 1pm, and the afternoon is generally free. The kind of activity or volume of teaching you are involved in depends on the needs of the projects at the time and also on your personal strengths and interests.
For more information please contact a member of the Kaya Team at:
T: +44 (0) 161 870 6212
E: info@kayavolunteer.com
W: http://www.KayaVolunteer.com
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