About the Projects

This project supports approximately 200 children, girls, adolescents, and young people with various disabilities and skills, along with their families from diverse backgrounds across the country. The goal is to engage all social actors to ensure the successful social inclusion of individuals with different capacities and to promote the active and responsible participation of families, institutions, municipal authorities, and the community.

The project provides:

• Technical Advice: For adapting classrooms and other activity spaces to daily life and social contexts.
• Socialization: Facilitating interaction among educational personnel, students, families, and the project team.
• Promotion and Diffusion: Spreading information about the right to inclusion and sharing inclusive experiences within the community through institutional participation.
• Sustainable Training Program: Developing a sustainable program for training and public awareness campaigns on inclusion.

Specific training activities include workshops for:

• Project partners and collaborators.
• Students of the inclusive educational unit.
• Families within the educational community.
• University students and teachers.

Location

Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Accommodation

Host Family

Volunteer Tasks

• Support in the daily work in classroom.
• Integral support in classrooms.
• Support in activities of the daily life and in community.

Volunteer Requirements

Balance and emotional stability, tolerance to frustrations, capacity of conflicts resolution, empathy, team working and to work under pressure.

Child Protection

Please note that you will be required to sign ICYE’s policy Care to Engage on Safeguarding Children.