Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
With Intercambio, we strongly believe that learning other languages at a young age is valuable for the development of one’s personality and offers interesting chances for life. That’s why we organize English classes (A1 A2) for the children of “La Divisa”, an underprivileged neighbourhood in the hills of Medellín, Colombia.
We are looking for an open-minded volunteer with a good level of English, with good communication skills and at least a basic level of Spanish (and the motivation to improve) who can help us with the English classes.
Your mission as an English teaching volunteer will be teaching English to students with a basic level of English, and organizing activities which promote the use of the language (cinema club, language camp, cultural exchange, book club,…). Most of our students are between 8-16 years old. The English classes are part of a bigger program to prevent children getting into prostitution, drugs or criminal activities. Besides this we want to prepare the children for jobs in tourism or obtaining scholarships with the possibility of studying abroad.
You are expected to be in the classroom three hours per day from Monday through Friday. We will ask you to prepare each class thoroughly, which should take two hours a day maximum, so in total you’ll be working 25 hours a week. We work with 3 different groups of children: all between 8-16 year old.
You’ll only work during the week, on the weekend you’ll have time to discover Medellin and the Antioquia region. Depending on the season you’re going to work, you’ll also have days off to discover the rest of Colombia. Besides the classes we’ll ask you to think about ways to expand the project, to organize a fundraising, design games, social media, …
