Teach English & Care for Children in Romania

  Romania

Barlad

Length of Position: two or three weeks
Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: year round

Description: In Tutova, you can help feed and care for babies who arrive at the "failure-to-thrive ward" shortly after birth. Each day, volunteers stimulate, love and nurture them in a way a parent would. Just playing with these children will make a huge difference in their lives. And you will benefit from the healing smiles and warm hugs of your small charges. Physicians can also be helpful, but note: flexibility is a key, as equipment and medicine are scarce throughout this country.

You can also choose to teach conversational English to middle school and high school students in Barlad. No formal teaching experience is required. You will serve as a resource in formal classrooms, practicing pronunciation and assisting with language exercises. This is an exceptional chance for retired and active teachers as well.

Highlights: Lend your heart to change a life! No special skills are needed to teach conversational English skills, or to nurture a disabled or abandoned baby. Demonstrate the universal language of love and compassion. No matter the circumstances of their birth, infants, toddlers and teens understand the nurturing touch and kind words of a caring adult. Deserving children in our Romanian host communities eagerly await your help today.

Qualifications: If you have energy to work with kids, an open mind, and are willing to serve as part of a team and take direction from local leaders, you will make a positive contribution to this exciting volunteer program.

Cost in US$: USD2,495-2,895/1-3 wks - negotiable

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: Our volunteers are culturally curious and open-minded people looking to contribute to a community development project and to improve their understanding of different ways of life. They are all ages, from various ethnic backgrounds, and of all different professions, such as educators, students, laborers, medical professionals, full-time parents, computer professionals, artists, lawyers and the like. Above all, Romania volunteers love children, and wants to contribute to their well-being.

Age Range: adults all ages; minor with parent

This Program is open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Romania Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups of 15-18

Application Process Involves:

• Letters of Reference
• Phone Interview
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Re-Entry Debriefing at Home

Global Volunteers's Mission Statement: "Partners in Development". Founded to help advance peace, rehabilitate improverished communities, and promote mutual international understanding between peoples of diverse cultures through short-term volunteer service on long-term community development programs. We maintain on-going partnerships with local leaders and indigenous host organizations worldwide. Each year, we mobilize up to 300 teams of volunteers to work alongside local people on work projects central to their advancement. We also raise funds to support our international and domestic partners and to provide child sponsorships for educational, social and medical assistance. Global Volunteers is in special consultative status with the United Nations and UNICEF.

Year Founded: 1984