Help make children aware of animal care!
This volunteer program is especially suitable for:
Working on Simabo's educational programs is a unique, authentic, and rewarding experience. Education is the only way to genuinely change society by contributing to the mentality and principles of tomorrow's adults. Working with children is one of the best ways to get in touch with the local culture. You'll have fun, learn some words in creole, and - above all - live moments that stay in your heart and mind forever.
What to expect?
- To do some activities with children (painting,…)
- Talk with students about animals
- Complete immersion in the local community
Skills required
- Speak Portuguese
- To like working with children and teenagers
- Able to be patient
- To be independent and responsible
- To have organizational and time-management skills
Tasks
1) Workshops
- Call schools of São Vicente to schedule workshops;
- Think about activities to do with students;
- Check the material that exists in SIMABO and decide if you will need to buy more;
- Update all paperwork: "Workshop calendar" and "Schools Database".
2) Surveys
- Check the existing surveys for adults and children (printed on the green cover);
- Make inquiries;
- Organize the output information in Excel
3) Other communication actions
- Post SIMABO's educational posters in hospitals, private clinics, private doctors' offices, dentists, catering (health centers already have them all);
- Update Excel file "Posters".
Vaccinations are not required nor recommended. There is no rabies in Cape Verde.
NOTES:
- Information given in the Time Commitment session of this program are only an example and they are not binding:
- Changes in shifts must be communicated with a week notice and be authorized
- Changes in shifts can't leave shifts uncovered
- We'll make our best to give you the morning shift on the last working day of one week and the afternoon shift of the first working day of the following week, so that you have 2 days and 2 nights off and you can visit another island if you like.
The help we need varies depending on your skills. We expect someone who is a self-starter and can work independently with a very high degree of motivation. Work is per shifts: morning from 8 to 13 or afternoon from 13 to 18.
Volunteers who work in the morning must have breakfast before starting, even if they work at the office or in the hostel. Lunch is after 13. Most volunteers like to have something ready from the previous day so that they can eat as soon as they finish their working shift, and then they have still time to rest and go for some free time activity on the beach or in town or visit another village on the island. Public buses go back and forth from town to the 4 villages on the coast during the whole day, with the last ones coming back from the villages at about 5 PM. Sometimes volunteers can organize shifts in the kitchen and prepare food for themselves at 12,30, before going to work, and other volunteers that finish working at 13.
Volunteers working in the afternoon must be ready to go at 13, so they have free time in the morning.
For people that don't like to cook or don't want to spend their time cooking, meals can be bought for little money in a lot of local small restaurants. You can be dropped off at the market place when our car go to the shelter at 1PM and have lunch there, before going to the beach for a nap. Everything is so close and easy to reach that there is almost no need to "organize" free time.
Free time activities can vary according with the time of the year: in winter it is not so hot, so you can go round during the whole day. In Summer it will be difficult to do anything else than rest or being at the beach from 12 to 17.
Shifts are allocated according to the needs at the shelter and to the desires of the volunteers. Some people like better to work in the morning because it is cooler, but of course night life suffers from this schedule. Other people prefer to go to bed later, rest in the morning and work in the afternoon. In general volunteers are working one per shift or more only if available.
The island is famous for its music and its partying vibe! So night activity is guaranteed!
- On the island you can find a diving center (in town), a windsurfing school and a kitesurfing school.
- Capoeira is also widely practiced and can be learned with 2 groups in lessons held in the late afternoon.
- Hiking paths are very simple to follow. Every volunteer who likes hiking can't miss visiting the neighboring island, Santo Antao, with its beautiful mountains and trekking paths.
- If you are not so keen on hiking, you can rent a bicycles, electrical bicycles and scooters at local shops.