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Teaching Deaf Children (M5)
     
 

This deaf school needs gap year volunteers to provide educational activities for the deaf children. Volunteers with art and craft skills are needed also a basic knowledge of sign language. Located on the beautiful Pacific Coast of Mexico.

Teaching Deaf Children

Description of Project

This is a well-organised school for the deaf in Puerto Vallarta. Currently it has around 20 children and 10 adults that attend classes for a few hours each day. The children attend normal school in the afternoons. The school is small but purpose built. There are excellent, all-Mexican staff who communicate in sign language. The children are typically rather demanding and need far more attention than current staff can offer. Although the hours are relatively short, the work is very demanding and volunteers usually arrive home in the early afternoon exhausted. The headteacher, has expressed a strong interest in working with Outreach volunteers.

Volunteer Responsibilities / Activities

Volunteers are needed to assist the permanent staff with a wide range of educational activities including playing, supervising activities, teaching English, basic arts and crafts, and helping with games. Students are also prepared for studying in mainstream schools and in life skills to facilitate access to the job market. These activities are sometimes undertaken as whole class activities but volunteers are often given groups of just two or three children and / or young adults to supervise.

  
     
     
 

Summary

Deaf Children Playing
  • Project Code:
    M5
  • Main Activity of Project:
    Working with deaf children and young adults.
  • Minimum Period of Stay:
    One month.
  • Cost:
    One month: £1430.
    Three months: £2965.
    For full details of our prices please see our costs page.
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Articles / Volunteer Evaluations

  • Evaluation by Amy
  • Updates by Claire Galvin
 
     
     
 

Facilities, materials and educational resources are very basic so volunteers need to use plenty of initiative to create stimulating activities. Volunteers will have very close contact with Mexican staff and Mexican children. This is an important project and has proved to be particularly rewarding to patient, dedicated volunteers. As with many volunteer projects the enthusiasm and interests of the volunteers themselves with be the deciding factor of how much they become involved in the multiple activities of the school. The project supervisors and administrators are all Mexican and do not speak English. They are used to communicating with the deaf and their Spanish is easy to understand.

  
     

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