Social Impact in Colombia: Help Teach English and share your culture

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What you offer

20h

Hours per week: Help out and collaborate with your host only a few hours per week.

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

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What you get

Days off per week: Have some time off for yourself, go explore the city or rest for a while.

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Name: Finca Ganadito will offer you a volunteering certificate.

Support: Get help from the Worldpackers support team in case you need it, at any point of your trip.

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Availability

May

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Sep

Oct

Stay at least: 2 weeks

The Experience

-Prepare a presentation about your country to show to the students. -Participate in the English classes with our teachers. -Help the teachers to teach the students. -Participate in the events that school prepares. -Assist with social media postings

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Requirements

Fluent English or Fluent German
Between 19 and 50 years old
Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)
Be from outside Colombia

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

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11 Reviews

5.0

Host & Team

5.0

Hours & Tasks

4.5

Non Profit School

5.0

Learning & Fun

5.0

How this experience will transform you

11 Meeting locals
10 Practicing Spanish
9 Immersing in the local culture
6 Practicing English
5 Get in touch with nature
5 Meeting international travelers

Rick

Netherlands

In just one week Emilia and her colleagues and friends helped me to immerse myself into the Boyacan culture. Besides work, I played Tejo, Bolirana and learned some new Spanish words and learned about the culture and work. You sleep in a cool house in Tuta and work in Paipa. It's cool to actually stay a week in this friendly town and become friends with the people. It felt like home! It's also a sportive city and you can find enough coffee corners :) Emilia herself is always busy, so take good care of her. She is funny, just like her friends!

3 months ago

Diego

Sweden

Had a wonderful time here. The students are great and learn you a lot of both the language and the culture. You also have a lot of responsibility for the classes right from the beginning as the host Emilia is a very busy girl (a lot of things going on at the same time). She always has a positive attitude and always laughs. The town Paipa where you work is both safe and lovely with wonderful people & amazing food and also Tuta (where you live) Ps, you will need 8-10 dollars/euros a day for the bus-ride (20-30 mins) and for food everyday. Highly recommend!!

6 months ago

Basia

United Kingdom

I loved my experience at the school! If I could of stayed longer I honestly would have:) Emilia is super fun, caring and lovely! Teaching, even for a novice like me was great. I learnt alot, it sparked up a passion and I'm now looking at more teaching opportunities. Everyone I met in Paipa were so nice and welcoming, food is super fresh & everything is so affordable. It was really relaxing to chill and have fulfilling days. Would love to come back and visit!

8 months ago

Charlie

Australia

Emilia is sunshine in human form. Volunteering here was a much needed respite for me it was so lovely to take a pause and enjoy a some peaceful time in the country side

10 months ago

Gabriely

Brazil

I've done other volunteers before, but this was my first experience teaching and it was really nice to connect with locals, definitely an interesting challenge to teach English to Spanish speakers when I don't speak Spanish so well, but I think I managed just fine in the end. The house where you stay is far from the city where the school is located, but it's very comfortable and there are frequent buses. Emilia, the host, is super sweet. The only problem maybe is that I was expecting 3 meals and 50k pesos per week is not enough to cover that. Overall though, it was a very rich experience :)

about 1 year ago

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Hosted by Emilia Rocío

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