Short-Term Social Projects
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Rehabilitation Center for Youth with Disabilities
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Project Description
This project is focused on an educational center that provides children from the ages of 2 to 25 years old with rehabilitation and educational services. These children often come from dysfunctional homes where families have few economic means for betterment. The center offers education to children from preschool through the fifth grade. The center also provides tailored education, pre-vocational workshops, routine care, and medical care services.
There are currently 15 special needs children and youth who live in the “Casa Hogar” (“House Home”), which also serves as an orphanage. These children are afforded round-the-clock protection and care and are given health, nutrition, rehabilitation, and education services with immense love and affection.
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Elderly Care Center
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Project Description
The nursing home looks after approximately 200 elderly people with a range of problems such as senile dementia, disability, rheumatoid arthritis, etc.
The home provides a loving and caring environment for the elderly where they can live in peace and harmony and receive the medical attention, physiotherapy, psychological and social care that they need. The home has a staff of 25, which include doctors, nurses, kitchen and cleaning personnel.
The majority of elderly residents suffer from arthritis, back pain, and other debilitating physical conditions which require constant care.
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Teaching English in Quito
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Project Description
The Teaching English volunteer project takes place in several deprived schools located in the south and central parts of Quito which have very few economic resources. Volunteers will teach classes to primary school children between the ages of 5 and 12 years.
Currently, there is only one teacher to teach 178 primary school children between the ages of 5 and 12 years. Thus, volunteers in the education sector are extremely important.
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Teaching English in the Galapagos
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Project Description
This project has several objectives, one of the priorities being to improve the level of English of children between the ages of 5 and 12 years. The principal aim this project is to facilitate the children's communication with tourists on the islands. Since the Galapagos Islands is one of the main tourist attractions in Ecuador, the children's ability to work and communicate with tourists is essential for their range of opportunities.
Volunteers help teach, guide, and assist children in the first through seventh grades of primary school. The schools currently have an average of 30 children per class and generally at least three classes per grade level. However, English teachers are very limited, with only one per school. Hence, there is a real need for volunteers to assist with English instruction.
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Childcare Center for Disadvantaged Children
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Project Description
This volunteer project has been set up by mothers to provide a childcare center to care for small children who come from low-income families and whose parents cannot take care of their children while they work full-time. This center provides these parents an alternative to having to leave their children at home unattended or take their children with them to work.
The project’s main objective is to offer such children comprehensive and supportive daycare, which includes their health, nutritional, and psychological needs. The center is run in conjunction with parents and the local community. However, parents and the community oftentimes lack the skills or economic means to meet their children's needs.
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Center for Deaf and Blind Children
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Project Description
Children stay at the institution from Monday until midday on Friday when they return to their families for the weekend. The children come from extremely low-income families. Unfortunately, the center lacks the resources to be able to recruit sufficient personnel, who otherwise would reside full-time. Currently, a staff of 24 provides special needs education to 39 children, of whom 24 reside permanently at the center.
Even though the school has a reasonable number of staff, volunteers are needed to provide greater assistance to these special needs children. Volunteers will help to strengthen the current workforce during afternoons and particularly during the evenings.
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