Volunteer Opportunities in Buenos Aires

Description

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. 

Description

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.

Description

Description

Description

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. 

Description

 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.

Description

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. 

Description

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. 

Description

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.