Poverty since the devaluation combined with a lack of appropriate education and family planning has resulted in millions of indigent children in Argentina whose parents cannot adequately provide for their basic needs such as food, clothing and a proper education. We aspire to help change these children's situation by providing caring and nurturing volunteers to work and play with them. Many non profit organizations support and protect these children.
Your assistance helps keep them off the street, provides them with a happy and productive childhood, and inspires them to better future opportunities.
For these children, the time spent with a foreign volunteer is perhaps the only exposure to other cultures and places they may ever have since they do not have access to means like the Internet or cable TV.
It is difficult to describe how inspirational this can be in the children's lives. By sharing their knowledge, skills, life experiences and time, volunteers to these projects make a meaningful contribution to the future of these children. Various educational, recreational, and health projects are ongoing to support these unfortunates. Presently volunteers in this area have opportunities to work in a number of different settings. Three representative projects,
Bernardino Rividavia Rural Elementary School, Day Care and Nutrition Centers and AYSAND Center for Children with Disabilities are described below.
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Bernardino Rivadavia Rural Elementary School Project
Bernardino Rivadavia is a small rural public school that has only kindergarten and elementary grades. The town cannot afford a high school so this is the children's only certain opportunity for education. The 130 children of Bernardino Rivadavia range in age from 5 to 12 years and come from the rural communities and poor areas of Cordoba's outskirts. Since they have only three available classrooms they are divided in two shifts: morning (for higher grades) and afternoon (for lower grades). The school serves a daily lunch for all of the students at the same time between these shifts. This allows all the students to interact with one another and with the staff. Even more importantly, if the school did not provide this lunch, the students would likely eat little or nothing at home. Volunteers work side by side with teachers and other volunteers providing care for the children, teaching them basic English and academic skills, organizing and developing sport activities, and simply playing with them.
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Daycare and Nutrition Center Projects
In the aftermath of Argentina's economic meltdown of the late 90s, a large number of non profits were created to feed and take care of the children in very poor neighborhoods whose families cannot otherwise provide for them. At present, these NGOs provide daily breakfast, lunch or dinner to many children and adolescents, usually more than 40-50 per location. They also provide school support and other activities to keep them away from the street. Some also run maternal day care centers for babies and children from 45 days to 5 years of age. Volunteers in this type of project help children with homework, teach basic/simple conversational English, support in recreational, manual and artistic activities, read stories, organize sport activities, care for and play with the children and help to prepare and serve meals.
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AySAND
Children Living with Disabilities
AYSAND (Assistance and Service to Children with Disabilities) has been providing education, therapy, occupational training and recreational services to youths with disabilities for the last 13 years. AYSAND operates permanently at its maximum capacity of 120 children with a large waiting list. The children are divided into 3 levels as per their progress and disability level, Unlike most NGOs AYSAND does receive some government and private support, although it is nowhere near enough to meet the great need that exists.
Working with disabled children can prove to be very emotionally challenging for volunteers though extremely rewarding. While observing the ways disabilities have affected young lives can be heartrending, the work is immensely uplifting at the same time. It is truly amazing and rewarding to watch a child respond to your love, care, and attention.
AYSAND (Assistance and Service to Children with Disabilities) has been providing education, therapy, occupational training and recreational services to youths with disabilities for the last 13 years. AYSAND operates permanently at its maximum capacity of 120 children with a large waiting list. The children are divided into 3 levels as per their progress and disability level, Unlike most NGOs AYSAND does receive some government and private support, although it is nowhere near enough to meet the great need that exists.
Working with disabled children can prove to be very emotionally challenging for volunteers though extremely rewarding. While observing the ways disabilities have affected young lives can be heartrending, the work is immensely uplifting at the same time. It is truly amazing and rewarding to watch a child respond to your love, care, and attention.
Volunteers work side by side with teachers and other volunteers assisting in recreational, manual and artistic activities, reading stories, organizing sport activities, caring for and playing with the children and helping in the kitchen and dining room.
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