Graphic Designer & Branding

Superlearner is an Italian NGO operating in Lima (Peru). It’s a volunteer association founded in 2017, that provides informal education.

In Peru more than half of students do not reach the basic level standards in reading, science and mathematics. Public schools represents less than the 50% of educational institutions and more than a half of them do not have access to the three basic services: water, electricity and sewage.

It’s very hard to feel that you can rise above your circumstances when everything around you seems to say that you are unworthy, not smart enough, and that you will never reach to anything. Superlearner aims to empower kids to achieve their dreams through education. We believe all children should have the opportunity to grow into whatever they want to be. Our goal is to show them that this is possible.

Our volunteer project is developed in Lima (Peru), in the sector of Pamplona Alta belonging to the district of San Juan de Miraflores.

Since the 1950s, this district has been the location of a series of migration waves from remote Peruvian regions. Many thousands of poverty-stricken families have chosen to relocate here and began to build houses of wood, cardboard, and plastic tarp. In particular, Pamplona Alta was primarily developed due to families who lost their houses in a large fire in 1963. After this fire, more families immigrated from surrounding slums in Lima. Additionally, the Nueva Rinconada neighborhood is located at the height of the hills in Pamplona Alta, and was chiefly developed in the 1990’s. This is both one of the poorest areas and most difficult to access. Nueva Rinconada lacks running water, basic infrastructure, and at times electricity.

With Superlearner, we don’t just want to bring meaningful education to some of Peru’s most vulnerable children. We want to empower them to build resilience with the confidence that true education provides. We don’t want to simply “help” communities with short-term projects. We want to collaborate with them to build a long-term, self-sustaining program that fits the community’s needs and continues to benefit local areas long after our volunteers leave. To reach the goal, we need to learn from each other and train local teachers or community leaders, who can keep Superlearner in place. We are trying to put together an excellent team to make our pilot project effective, efficient and successful. Every volunteer can give a personal contribution according to their abilities, skills and availability, becoming part of a large community.

Our curriculum is meant to supplement the education that our children are already receiving. Our students all attend their local public schools. While it is great that they are going to school, their educational path is substantially behind that of expensive Peruvian private schools. We aim to close this gap by offering reinforcement in the subject areas in which they are lagging behind. We believe our students are as naturally talented and worthy as students from wealthier areas and backgrounds. And in order to realize these talents, they need more individual attention and more comprehensive teaching.

Mission: The volunteer is responsible for the production of flyers, brochures, images, documents or other material that requires the intervention of a graphic designer.

General tasks: 

The volunteers are expected to adapt to a different cultural background, be able to work in team and be puntual for meetings. It is essential to bring a personal device like a laptop or tablet and have some skills in graphic designing. 

We don't ask anyone to pay fees for volunteering with us. The only cost is the subscription fee (10 Euros). We use it to pay the insurance that is mandatory as we are a registered NGO in Italy. Anyway, as we are a little NGO working on a low budget, we can't offer free accomodation and food, all our funds are used to realize the educational activities. Eventually, we can help volunteers to find a cheap solution (sometimes a free one). 

In Lima there are plenty of free time activities to do. As the city is on the Pacific coast, you can go swimming, surfing or do other water sports. In this huge city there are always a lot of possibilities to go out at night, go to concerts, go shopping or sightseeing, visit museums or go hiking in the surrounding mountains.