Volunteer in Peru

Be the Change. Be a Global Volunteer in Peru.

Help children and families overcome severe poverty

Inspire and guide youth to productive futures as a volunteer in Peru. Working in partnership with inspired community leaders since 2001, we enable you to help eradicate hunger, improve healthcare and enhance cognition on our Reaching Children’s Potential Program.  Work with inspired teachers and managers at a safe harbor for babies and youth, and support families with essential services in the barrios of Ventanilla, a dusty mountainside community outside Lima. See Covid-19 requirements.

Get Started in Peru

Volunteer in Lima’s Ventanilla District along the Pacific coast.

Volunteer in Lima, Peru

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Required Mobility Level:
Mobile

Call: 651-407-6100

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FAQs:

Genuine development projects to help children thrive. Exceptional service-learning for families, groups and individuals.

Conversational English:

Work one-on-one with children from kindergarten through high school on English language skills, primarily through reading, writing and recitation, to encourage their interest and proficiency in basic English. At the university level, you help students anchor their independence through conversational English practice and lesson reviews.

Health Care:

Health care professionals are needed at the on-campus clinic, which serves the community’s children and people from the surrounding community. There is also need for non-medical staff to work in the clinic on projects such as making cotton balls and bandages and organizing medical records and medicines.

Parent and Family Workshops:

Conduct interactive workshops for pregnant women, mothers, fathers and grandparents on health, nutrition, early childhood development, education, psychology, or related topics in your field. Choose from 37 prepared outlines and presentations.

Home Visits:

Accompany our caregiver staff on family home visits to meet mothers to provide psychosocial support, discuss their families’ health and nutrition, and review topics introduced in monthly workshops.

Classroom Teaching and Tutoring:

If you have good Spanish skills, you can teach math, science, numeracy, geography, biology, and world history and help students of all ages with their homework and testing. Help children read, write and speak in English on literacy projects. Enjoy serving as an inspiration in learning environments lacking material resources.

Early Childhood Education:

Stimulate and guide preschool children with arts and crafts, music, storybooks, and educational toys; demonstrate hand washing with soap and water; and teach other hygiene skills.

Repair and Maintenance:

Help protect and maintain center facilities by painting, repairing, and maintaining buildings, and lend a hand on plumbing, carpentry, welding, masonry, and electrical projects.

“As soon as I reached out, they came with outstretched hands into my arms. I was no longer a stranger. It was very heartwarming.”

“If English is the language of opportunity, it’s our rare privilege to play a small supportive role in our students’ quest for graduate studies, professional employment, and success.”

“This is my third program in Peru. It is absolutely unfathomable the depth of poverty in the partner community! But, I am positive my experience advanced understanding between cultures. They wanted to learn Conversational English, and I was able to give that to them.”

“Miracles do happen each day, and Global Volunteers has an appreciable percentage of them!”

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St. Paul, MN 55117-1628 USA
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