Some one with a can-do attitude who is willing to make the most of their placement and above all enjoy it, who enjoys teaching English as a foreign lanaguage, who is sensitive to the predicament of under privileged children, interested in poverty and development issues and interested in music and culture of Latin America.

For applicants from the UK, we have a number of bursary schemes available for volunteers from a variety of backgrounds.

Our bursary scheme and funded placement projects reduce the barrier of cost for young people experiencing financial problems. They are designed to help young people who would not otherwise be able to afford to go.

As a Lattitude volunteer, you could have the highly challenging yet immensely rewarding opportunity of working with children from the shanty towns of Sao Paulo or Recife who may be orphans, addicted to drugs of victims of abuse. However, although described as caring, many centres would expect volunteers to teach English and possibly music and art as well. Teaching English is an important part of this project but equally important are the other activities you can do with the children.

You can bring your particular strengths and skills to this placement, for example organizing drama classes, arts, crafts, music, playing games, etc.

The placements are in projects supported by Christian churches. Volunteers can be of other faiths but cannot teach other faiths. The work will involve helping children from the neighbouring favelas with schoolwork, especially English. Children attend the project when they are not in school, so there are different groups in the morning and afternoon. The organisation also provides them with food, gives health advice and a Christian education.

Few Brazilians speak English, so there is a compulsory week’s introduction to Portuguese in Sao Paulo. If you would like to know how many vacancies are currently available for this placement, please contact us by using the enquiry form or telephone number below.

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Our English teaching and our community care placements both leave in February for 4/5 months

0845 344 7500

Lattitude Global Volunteering has placed over 25,000 17- 25 year olds in volunteer projects since 1977. We are passionately concerned about the issues facing us all in the world and about the positive impact on the communities in which we volunteer. Lattitude is an organisation with attitude. Responsible, exciting, different...