Educational Mentoring

Volunteer to support disadvantaged youth in the historic city of Philadelphia, USA. Working with an experienced local partner, Love Volunteer's participants will support youth education and well-being while experiencing one of America’s most culturally rich cities.

This important program was created with the goal of supporting under-privileged children and their schools, developing resources and safe, sanitary and beautiful learning and cultural spaces they can be proud of! Unfortunately, state-funded schools, especially those in poorer areas, simply don’t have the resources to maintain educational and extra-curricular spaces and equipment.  This initiative was developed to put the love back into schools and revamp or develop the spaces needed to help young people thrive.  By providing a calm and encouraging environment to learn, develop and grow you’ll be helping change the lives of impoverished children.  Providing the right facilities shows students they are important and improves their self-worth, creating a solid foundation to lead enriched lives.

This diverse program promises to keep volunteers busy across a range of projects and needs.  Volunteers will bring their own experience and strengths that will greatly aid schools provide facilities to help their youth shine.

Goals of this Project:

• Provide support to schools and educational facilities 
• Improve the prospects of some of the United State’s most impoverished children, and help them to break the poverty cycle,
• Enable exchange between volunteers and communities that cross cultural, religious and socio-economic barriers 
• Keep children in education for longer by supporting their needs 

Volunteers play an integral role in achieving the goals of this project.  They provide a much-needed labor force to work directly within classrooms, libraries, school facilities and playgrounds to provide the infrastructure and tools needed to aid student’s educational journey. A can-do attitude and tons of enthusiasm and energy is required to fuel volunteers to make a difference.  Volunteers could help on a number of different projects,  including clean ups, painting and maintenance  work, playground and garden development and designing and assembling new spaces for students.  Work could also include simply organising and developing resources and teaching aids in classrooms and libraries, a task over-worked teachers lack time for. Volunteers on this program make a real difference to the lives of children, helping them to achieve a higher education and supporting their developing needs.

Volunteers will contribute in a number of ways and can expect to undertake the following tasks:

• Work in classrooms and libraries developing facilities, resources and learning tools
• Work around schools and playgrounds to develop or maintain facilities
• Work on beautification projects of all scopes and sizes

Volunteers on the Youth Support program in Philly can expect to work for around 5 hours per day, Monday to Friday, with weekends free to enjoy this incredible location. While we ask for flexibility a typical day will look something like this: 

7:00am Breakfast at the Hostel

8:15am Travel to the project site

8:45am Pre-start meeting with the program supervisor

9:00am VOLUNTEERING DUTIES START

Lunch is taken at midday at an eatery near to the project site

2:00pm VOLUNTEERING DUTIES END

Afternoons and evenings are free to relax and explore the experiences Philly has to offer.