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Overseas Volunteering with Arajuno Road
Based in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador the Arajuno Road Project offers volunteers the opportunity to work and teach in schools, providing long-term benefits to the children and families of the Arajuno Road. With the help that volunteers give us, we can supply essential educational and sporting equipment, and give the children a more exciting learning experience, by using activities, art and music to teach.
A life in schools and offices means that I am embarrasingly bad at digging a hole.
Follow our coordinator each month and find out what is going on each month, by reading the Arajuno Road Project Blog
The Arajuno Road Project aims to create a structured curriculum within the jungle schools of Ecuador, with volunteers helping to create a stable learning environment. The Arajuno Road Project also aims to use local communities skills and resources to help develop the communities and preseve the rapidly depleting rainforest.
What the Project Needs
The Arajuno Road Project needs imaginative and enthusiastic volunteers who are keen to make a lasting difference to the children of the area. The project is suitable for first-time and experienced volunteers looking for a true volunteering experience in South America. For those unable to travel to Ecuador but who are still wanting to make a difference overseas, our Buy a Book campaign is a great way of helping children in South America. Ecuador needs books, our mobile library, run by volunteers, can reach over 400 children, helping to teach and improve literacy.
How It Works
Continuity is at the heart of our volunteer projects, offering a structure for both you and the communities you help. Currently, teachers are teaching children from 6 different grades in the same class. Volunteers allow the teacher to teach a smaller number of children focused lessons, whilst the volunteers teach English, art, sport or music. We believe that learning should be an interaction between the children, the subject and the teachers. Volunteers use games and activities to teach lessons and design structured lesson plans as part of a curriculum to ensure that their volunteer placement is as effective as possible, and so future volunteers can build on the work that has been done before them.
Why It's There
Arajuno Road Project
Ecuador and the Amazon jungle possess a valuable resource in modern society, oil. Arajuno was used by Shell up until the 1950's, but it was not until 1963 that the Arajuno Road was built, connecting the jungle community with Puyo, The road brought dozens of jungle communities into the Western world and away from their traditional lifestyles. This coupled with the re-emergence of the oil companies has left the local communities in a limbo between the old world and the new. Although the Ecuadorian government built schools, and pays for a teacher's salary, there are no provisions for school equipment. The families are mainly subsistence farmers and lumberjacks and do not have the finances or the skills to operate in modern day Ecuador.
The Arajuno Road Project is using the assistance of volunteers and generous donations to give the local children the best chance possible to compete in a rapidly developing Ecuador. The project also aims to help local communities uses their skills and resources to cope with modern Ecuador whilst retaining traditional values.
