Mexico: Volunteer Care/Orphanage work in Latin America

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Mexico: Volunteer Care-Work with Children

Volunteer on Care projects overseas in Mexico
  • Placement locations: Guadalajara, Ciudad Guzman
  • Types of care projects: Care centres for disabled children, hospitals, kindergartens, rehabilitation centre for street children
  • Age of children: 0 - 15
  • Number of people cared for: Varied
  • Role: Assisting with local staff including playing with children, basic teaching, mentoring and giving general help
  • Accommodation: Host families
  • Price: From £1395
  • What’s included? Food, accommodation, transfers, insurance, personal webpage, induction and orientation, 24/7 support, social activities
  • What’s not included? Flights, visa costs, spending money
  • Length of placement: From one month
  • Start dates: Flexible

Joining Projects Abroad as a Care volunteer in Mexico, you will have an important role to play. Volunteers at all the Care placements in Mexico are engaged in helping children who have precious few other people to whom they can turn, and, for this reason, volunteering in Mexico should be considered a challenging but also an incredibly rewarding pursuit.

We do not require you to have previous experience, provided you have passion and commitment to the job and the people you are trying to help. Whether you are on a gap year or coming to development work as an older volunteer on a career break or even during your retirement you will have a role to play and your contribution will be valued.

Voluntary Special Needs and Orphanage Work with Projects Abroad

Projects Abroad has a variety of care placements in Guadalajara - Mexico's second city - and in Ciudad Guzman, a smaller town in the volcanic region a couple of hours to the south. Volunteering in Mexico could see you working in an orphanage, a kindergarten, a paediatric ward or a centre for children with mental and physical disabilities. Our partner organisations include the Red Cross, who operate care centres in the region.

Gap Year work with Children in Mexico The range of skills that you may require throughout the duration of your placement may be as varied as the problems encountered by the children you are helping. Many of the children are desperate for attention and there will undoubtedly be children present who have health problems and who need special attention due to both mental and physical disabilities.

Volunteering Abroad on a Care Project in Mexico

As well as working in orphanages, centres for the disabled and kindergartens, we also place volunteers at a day care centre for children receiving treatment for cancer. You are needed to assist the dedicated staff here, helping to keep the children entertained with a variety of activities while they wait for treatment and generally helping to add some positivity and fun into their difficult daily lives.

The vast majority of the children we work with seem to have limitless energy and you are sure to get tired out before they do! Help the children with everything from brushing their teeth to learning the words to the latest pop song. Any encouragement you can offer goes a long way towards building a child's self-esteem and confidence. However exhausted you feel at the end of the day you will always feel that it has been well worth it.