Benefit and mission of the shanty town school
Benefits of this programme
- Get to know the about the reality of the lives of children who live in this Peruvian shanty town
- Improve your Spanish while working with the kids and other volunteer teachers and assistants
- Have a good time with really great kids while helping out in the classrooms or organizing your own activities outside.
- Get an impression of how a NGO like CEP works and how they try to help.
- Get to know a Peruvian fishing village like Huanchaco from an inhabitant’s perspective instead of the short stay tourist perspective.
- Extend your travelling time in Peru at a very low cost of living and recharge your travelling batteries.
Organization
C.E.P. – Corporacion de Educacion Popular (“Association for education of the ordinary people”)
Mission
C.E.P. aims at giving an integrated humanistic, ecological and free education for the children of the shanty town Ramon Castilla in Huanchaco from kindergarden level until they go to the university.
So far they have classes from the youngest through primary age and plan to extend this year by year, funds, and a good supply of volunteers -like you? - permitting.
