Participation Fee: $3000 mexican pesos, it includes food, accommodation and administration costs.
PROJECT DETAILS : Montessori Nautilus is a pre-school and primary school (house of children, workshop I and workshop II) with an educational community who is enthusiastic and engaged in creative and cooperative learning. They out all their in assisting children with special educational needs integrated in the construction of a society.
.WORK OR ACTIVITES TO REALIZE:
1. The volunteers are going to realize activities of gardening, taking care of vegetables as well as the reparation of children´s toys creating new designs with recycled material (tires, plastic bottles, wood, etc.) to get into contact with parents and children. They will create new spaces and help to recover spaces that we all ready have, do carpentry, electrical, painting and remedy unsafe stuff for children.
2. The volunteers are going to realize activities with the community Chamilpa who regularly organizes communal work for the improvement of the society.
3. There is going to be a living together in which everybody can share his/her experiences in the rehabilitation of the garden. Moreover, the volunteers are going to be able to see the results of their toys that they built or repaired. The living together is going to be finished with a cultural activity organized by the school.
ACCOMMODATION: The accommodation is going to be in the school in a common space that can be closed. Air mattresses can be provided to sleep on the ground. The school owns a kitchen well equipped with plates, glasses and cutlery which the volunteers can use.
FOOD: The food is going to be prepared for the volunteers in the school. Moreover, the community has many places where regional fruits and vegetables can be bought.
LOCATION: The Project can be found in the community Chamilpa in the city Cuernavaca in the state Morelos, México. It is possible to provide transportation from the bus station to the school and for the way back at the end of the work camp. Moreover, there is the possibility to help with transportation during the free time.
FREE TIME: The volunteers are going to organize their free time themselves. There are going to be proposals of living together with the children of the school and the community to realize visits of the archeological zone of Xochicalco and the health resort of Los Manantiales. In the afternoons and evenings there are going to be free cultural activities in the centre of the city Cuernavaca where the volunteers can participate on one´s own account.
REQUIREMENTS: Good disposal to teamwork, dedication, responsibility and willingness to work with children and their parents. Please bring a sleeping bag, your own insurance and appropriate clothes for the hours of work (clothes that can get dirty and be washed easily, comfortable and simple shoes).
REMARK: You can take the Intensive Spanish Course that we offer to the volunteers in our camps before to go to your project. See the information and conditions at the section of the Spanish Courses 2014.
The meeting point will be at the VIMEX office before the camp starts because all the volunteers will go together to the project.