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VOLUNTEER IN BUENOS AIRES: PLACEMENT DESCRIPTIONS
TEACHING ENGLISH
Volunteers in this position will have the opportunity to work with some of the most disadvantaged populations in Buenos Aires. Participants will be working in order to teach, and improve the English of school children. Furthermore, participants will be responsible for coming up with activities and lessons that will aid the comprehension, and therefore advancement in the English language for the students.
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PUBLIC HOSPITAL VOLUNTEER POSITION
This medical volunteer placement puts participants in the center of the action in two of Buenos Aires’ best public hospitals, including a prestigious public university’s teaching hospital. Volunteers assist in local public healthcare centers, clinics, and hospitals that provide free medical and social services and health and safety information to community members. Participants put their time, medical skills and abilities to use in this program, working with clinic staff, assisting in health and safety workshops, and information sessions. Participants assist in social services, spending quality time with patients, reading or playing games, and helping improve the overall quality of the patients stay at the hospital. Students with medical experience/training would be able to assist doctors at a local community center in a variety of different areas depending on his or her specific previous experience.
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SOUP KITCHEN IN BUENOS AIRES
Volunteer your time with this local organization that helps the local community by providing food, clothing and individuals in need. As many of the people are homeless, it also provides a space for them to play, do homework, and participate in various educational and recreational activities. Your duties would include serving food, talking with the individuals, aiding them with homework, assisting in games and activities, and helping with everyday tasks around the kitchen.
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Class Hours: 0
Category: Volunteer Opportunities in Buenos Aires
HIV/AIDS AND PUBLIC HEALTH VOLUNTEER POSITION
The focus of this placement is to help improve the lives of those affected by HIV in Argentina, which simultaneously learning the ins and outs of a health-based Latin American NGO. The organization focuses on aiding both adults and youth in Argentina with HIV, as well as offering support services to their families so that they can carry on with their daily lives as productive and contributing members of their communities. The core values of this pivotal NGO focus on restoring dignity and human agency to people with HIV and AIDS based on the viewpoint that health is not only a physical, but also social and psychological phenomenon. The organization also runs far-reaching education, prevention, and clinical research projects. Volunteers help in clinics, hospitals, or homes strictly for HIV patients assisting in day-to-day activities, learning about the healthcare system in Argentina, spending quality time with residents, offering language assistance in both English and Spanish, and participating in recreational games and activities.
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Class Hours: 0
Category: Volunteer Opportunities in Buenos Aires
ENVIRONMENTAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT VOLUNTEER POSITION
Participants in this volunteer position will work with mentally challenged adolescents and young adults in developing organic community gardens, organic cultivation of vegetables, recycling programs and composting initiatives. The aim of the project is to equip these individuals with the skills to socially integrate as well as gain skills needed to enter the work force. Volunteers will be responsible for upkeep of the garden, promoting sustainable and organic practices, fundraising and promotion for sustainable practices in Buenos Aires.
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Class Hours: 0
Category: Volunteer Opportunities in Buenos Aires
YOUTH OUTREACH PROGRAM
You will work closely with a humanitarian organization in Argentina that seeks to bring basic resources to children from socially vulnerable populations. The organization provides homeless children with shelter, food, schooling, and recreational activities in various children’s homes that are open 24/7. As an volunteer you will be able to choose from a variety of different projects including leading art, drama, or music classes, cooking, teaching English, playing sports, or accompanying the children on special outings. This job’s flexibility and wide range of tasks is ideal for an volunteer with multiple skills they’d like to share in order create better lives for vulnerable children.
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Class Hours: 0
Category: Volunteer Opportunities in Buenos Aires
ELDER CARE POSITION
This position gives participants the opportunity to volunteer with an established Argentine non-profit organization whose mission is to fight poverty, promote self sufficiency, and thus restore basic rights to members of impoverished and socially excluded groups. Volunteers work at a day center for senior citizens from underserved populations, helping in the daily running of a safe space where these community elders come for food, healthcare, and social support. Your responsibilities might include helping with preparing meals, playing board games, teaching English, and going for walks with the center’s visitors.
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WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT AND RECOVERY
This volunteer placement takes place at shelters and community centers that aim to provide vital services to underserved young women, girls and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 18 recovering from physical abuse as well as other psychological and health related issues that affect the female population in the vastly underserved neighborhoods surrounding Buenos Aires. The majority of the girls and women that take advantage of these services have lives that have been touched by difficult childhoods, physical abuse, and teen pregnancy. These centers dispense vital social support and psychological resources to this fragile demographic, in addition the planning a variety of creative, recreational, and after school help activities to provide support and comfort. Interns work closely with local staff to arrange activities, seminars, and other recovery and healing based activities for the many visitors they see each day. The placement allows for flexibility as volunteers are able to help plan activities and projects based on their own interests and talents. In addition, there is a high level of interaction with the local women visitors, so that getting to know local women and practicing Spanish in an informal setting are other highlights of this placement.
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Class Hours: 0
Category: Volunteer Opportunities in Buenos Aires
PUBLIC HEALTH VOLUNTEER PLACEMENT
This placement focuses on improving the health and nutrition of some of the most impoverished areas of Buenos Aires. Interns will be expected to raise awareness in the communities, to mothers, children and mothers to be about the importance of a balanced diet and the risks of stunted development for children who are malnourished. In this position it will be important to be able to conduct presentations that are informative in order to improve the lives of those living in the villas. Participants will be responsible for assisting staff members in evaluating the health and nutrition of children in the villas, up keep of materials needed for evaluations, as well as encouraging families to attend regular health checkups.
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Class Hours: 0
Category: Volunteer Opportunities in Buenos Aires