2024 at School Activities Assistant
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School Activities Assistant
Highlights
- Experience traditional village lifestyle while encouraging the children to discover new things and raising their awareness again of their weaknesses
- Experience how Buddhists leads a peaceful life while giving them a hope for their life.
- Help villagers to stand by themself to fight poverty and share the love you receive from them
- Live among tea estates and rice fields while practicing English, which local people need for their studies
- Go to the beach or rainforest areas nearby and cultivate good habits of protecting environment with the students.
- Experience traditional village lifestyle while encouraging the children to discover new things and raising their awareness again of their weaknesses
- Experience how Buddhists leads a peaceful life while giving them a hope for their life.
- Help villagers to stand by themself to fight poverty and share the love you receive from them
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About the program
Helping school children to develop their soft skills, cultivate good habits like loving environment through project-oriented interactive activities.
As a welfare organisation, we, Akuratatha, believe that only though education we can change the future of our younger generation. Education is one of the most powerful weapons in fighting poverty in such rural surroundings. So we, teachers in government schools, stabilized this organization to ...
Typical day
In practice, students go to school every weekday in the morning from 7.30 am until 1.30 pm. Then, we are running some extra English classes for school children directly in our village, Akuressa, with the help of the mentors of the local team from 2.30pm to 5.30 pm. volunteers are requested to use ...
Free-time activities
We carry out this project in a poor village called Akuressa near Mirissa, Weligama and Unavatuna beach. You can reach these sites within an hour within the bus. The Sinharaja rain forest and the the Udawalawa national park are also not so far. These beaches have long been among the most popular of ...
Requirements
What's Included
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Details on arrival
You are free to decide this as we are running our classes throughout the year. However, we kindly ask the volunteers to stay with us at least 4 weeks, in order to have enough time to lead a long-term from the beginning until the end. So two or three month is better, and if you can stay more than 6 months, you are warmly welcome.
Upon your arrival, it is possible to arrange a lift from the airport of Colombo (3h from Akuressa), or to take the public transports.
Program fees
Meet your organization
Akuratatha
Non-profit - founded in 2004
Verified by Volunteer World
Coordinated by
sahan
About the project
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