Projects
At this time, Globalteer requires volunteers at the following projects:
Peru Kids Project
The Peru Kids project is based in the magnificent city of Cusco, the oldest continually inhabited city in South America and the staging post for Machu Picchu. The project includes orphanages, a free education programme, community library and vocational training.
Volunteer duties: Assist the local staff to teach Spanish or English. Play sports, arts, teach the children vocational skills. Carry out manual work to improve the orphanages, painting, decorating, building a play area or gardening. Organise games and fun activities to occupy the children, help with homework, help with feeding the children.
Colombia Kids Project
The Colombia Kids project is based in the Andes mountain range in the vibrant city of Medellin. The project includes an outreach programme for the street children, free education programme and day centres. The project focuses on the young and vulnerable to assist them in finding a way out of the trap of poverty and to train them in vocational skills so that they can become contributing members to their families and society.Volunteer duties: The children are provided with English classes, lessons in Spanish, arts, music, sports and various vocational training. Most of the children at this project would otherwise spend their days on the streets so all skills to keep the children entertained and happy are welcome.
Cambodia Kids Project
Volunteer duties: Teach English and help out in the day centre or orphanages. Assist the local staff, play games, sing songs, art projects and become a mentor to the children. Assist in the manufacture of the water filters, take the filters into the Cambodian countryside for distribution to villages.
Thailand Animal Rescue
The Thailand Wild Animal Rescue Centre is dedicated to the rescue and re-habilitation of Thailand's wildlife. Many of Thailand's animals are illegally traded, abused in the tourist industry or maltreated. The rescue centre was established to provide these animals with a safe home as close to their natural environment as possible.
Volunteer duties: Preparing food for the bears, moving them inside and then scattering and hiding the food in their enclosure to provide a environment close to natural as possible where they would need to forage for food. Preparing food and feeding the primates. Creating the special diets for the other animals. Enrichment for the animals to provide stimulation, thought and fun. Including making puzzle feeders and watching as the primates work out how to get to the food inside, freezing their food on hot days, or smearing honey in hard to reach areas in the bears enclosure. Cleaning the cages and enclosures. Providing the animals with water. Walking in the forest to collect the best leaves for the primates. Maintaining the centre.
Thailand Elephant Project
The elephant project gives a safe sanctuary to Thailand's domesticated elephants. These animals would otherwise be roaming the streets of big cities, be kept in bad conditions at working elephant camps or be otherwise exploited in the tourist industry.
Volunteer duties: Early morning walk to collect the elephants from their night location in the forest. Bathing and swimming with the elephants in the lake or river. Walking the elephants into the forest to forage. Collecting fruits for their big appetites. Cleaning their enclosure at the centre. Washing the elephants with hose pipes. Learning all about these gentle giants.