Programs
General Indications
The children will not have to pay anything for the help that is
given to them. Our aim is to get our country out of these arrears and that the children
and adolescents offer us just a little smile which, for us and them, is a sufficient
motive to continue offering help to more people. Help will be offered in the villages
surrounding Huancayo, as the statistics signal that in those villages, poverty is
extreme and overwhelming. Volunteers will work Mondays to Fridays, 4 -6 hours per
day, depending on the program. This makes Saturdays and Sundays days for rest and
visits to places in and around Huancayo (tours). For whichever position, volunteers
do not necessarily need to be professional in the given area. What is important
to us, is that the volunteer shares the experience which he/she got in his/her country
working with children or adolescents within a certain area (see working areas).
His aim should be to help raising in people a feeling of being useful within their
society, to help recover their low self-esteem, brought about by violence and social
poverty, and to help them get to do work on their own. It is up to the volunteer
whether he/she wants to bring any material, working tools or donations, that would
serve his work with the children and adolescents.
General Activities for all Volunteers
Educational aspect
The most important part is to promote the education in any of the
areas, as the children and adolescents have not gone to school and their a academic
level is very low. For this reason, it is important to teach them with love and
understanding. The classes should be prepared by the volunteer according to the
level of the children. Personal aspect: The children need to learn about their rights.
Therefore they need to experience moral and ethical values, such as respect, tolerance
and honesty towards each other. The majority of the children have never had a proper
childhood, and they need to learn to be children again, so that they can learn how
to live in society. This could be done with activities in which they are encouraged
to express and share their emotions. Emotional aspect: Most of the children have
hardly experienced any love in their lives, they have grown up in an environment
essentially marked by hostility and violence. This is why the emotional aspect constitutes
an important pillar for the creation of stable relationships between the children
and the adolescents; the volunteers will act as role models in this aspect, and
with their affection and care they will contribute to the development of the children's
self-esteem.
Teaching of the English Language:
The work will be carried out in a previously rented and equipped room. It is the
volunteer who will do this work, as it is his native language (he doesn't need to
be an English teacher). If the volunteer wishes, he can have a person to support
him. We wish that the child or adolescent learns English, so that he will be able
to promote tourism in our region by himself. We would like him to have the necessary
skills to communicate and to transmit our region's culture to tourists from different
countries.The teaching of the English language will be complemented with activities
and games, according to what the volunteer believes is appropriate, and in this
manner a trusting and joyful environment should be built up, that will enable the
child or adolescent to strengthen his friendships with everybody, so that this child
will have the possibility to recover the confidence lost through violence, poverty
at his home and in society. At the end of the volunteering period, the pupils will
make an exhibition of what they have learnt, as a goodbye, in gratitude, to the
volunteer.
 
OURS Schools:
 
In the actuality we have 5 schools in the
rural places, these schools are gratuitous and they belong to Peru Luz De Esperanza,
where we offer to the children orphaned, children mistreated, young workers, in
general we take care of the poorest children, we give materials for the study gratuitously.
In Peru Luz De Esperanza we divided the classes of the children of the following
form:
Principiantes class or Kindergarthen: They are the children of 3 to 6 years of age, they learn
games, songs in English and many activities according to our academic program.
Primarios class:
They are the children of 7 to 9 years of age, they learn the English language, mathematical,
geography, universal history, language and writing and other educative matters,
all our classes are with different recreational activities like songs, games, music,
dance, theater, sports and other activities that the volunteers want to help.
 
 
Secundarios class:
They are the children and adolescent of 10 to 16 years of age, they learn the English
language and also more complicated matters according to their age like Chemistry,
Physics, geometry and other courses, also our classes are with different recreational
activities like songs, games, dance, music, theater, sports and other activities
that the volunteers want to help.
PROJECT OF WORK WITH MOTHERS
This project was created because much economic necessity in the rural towns exists,
we have enthusiastic mothers that they want to work and to create another source
of economic entrance for the feeding of his family, because this year the agriculture
was not good for them, the hectares of culture are had lost because of the frost,
they are mothers of low economic resources. It is therefore that Peru Luz de Esperanza
created two projects to generate work sources and to contribute with the social
and economic development of the rural places of the Andes of Peru.
Education of the English language:
The objective of this project is to teach the English language to the mothers so
that they in the future are guides of tourism of their places, and can offer its
artisan works to the tourists who come from the foreigner, because the places where
we are working are tourist places, beautiful places with much nature, we needed
to promote these attractive places like tourist, the towns receive visits of the
foreigners at some times of the year.
  
Education of different skills:
The objective of this project is to teach different types from skills so that they
can generate his own income economic, we have areas like: weaving, elaboration of
bracelets, scarfs, necklaces, classes of kitchen, to make candies, bakery and others.
 
Visits to the houses of the mothers:
This area was created with the objective to arrive at the remote families but from
the rural places. We make these visits to the different houses from all the town
and distributed the visits by zones by means of a map-guides and situation of poverty,
with the purpose of visiting most of the possible houses, and to give education
for the children and also to inform to the mothers on different courses.
 
Mothers of the children: We taught health, infantile nutrition, personal hygiene,
first aid and also familiar planning.
Technical area:
In this area we made different technical projects in coordination with the volunteers,
workers of Peru Luz de Esperanza
and with the representatives of the farmers in different
areas from technical assistance: Electrical engineering, Protection of environment
and biodiversity, channels of irrigation, Architecture, civil Engineering, zootecnia,
agronomy, forest and human development, with the objective to improve the situation
of the farmers.
 
 
 
Carpentry: The work is going
to be carried out in a rented and equipped room, for all those people who are interested.
The volunteer, a person in charge, and the children and adolescents with their attention
will make the work happen. What is more, the work is going to be done in an enjoyable
manner, such that it will be an agreeable experience for any volunteer; new ideas
and experiences will be exchanged. All the work is done in wood, using natural resources
from the zone. At the end of the volunteer's working period an exhibition of the
works is organized, and a goodbye ceremony for the volunteer will be held in gratitude
for the work offered. The volunteer has the option to bring materials from his country
to facilitate his work. All the work will be accompanied by diverse games and other
activities, as wished by the volunteers. Our objective is that the young person,
when he/she reaches adulthood, will be able to create him-herself a little carpentry
business to be able to earn his own and his family's living.
Bakery: The work is going
to be carried out in a previously rented and equipped room, for all those people
who are interested. The work is going to be done with the help of a volunteer and
a person in charge, who is going to give his/her support. The bread baking is carried
out in a hand-made oven, constructed with stones and clay. The work is accompanied
by diverse activities, such as games or other activities, as wished by the volunteers,
so that a warm, cheerful trustful environment is achieved. When the volunteer's
work period reaches an end, a chocolate party is organized, to which everybody is
invited, in a joyful environment, in gratefulness to the volunteer and his work
offered in this community. The volunteer has the option to bring any materials from
his country to facilitate his work. Our objective is that the young person, when
he/she reaches adulthood, will be able to create by him- herself a little bakery
to earn his own and his family's living.
Cattle raising and Agriculture:
The work will be carried out outdoors in the fields of the towns, for all the interested
person. The work carried out it the volunteer and a taken charge person that it
will be of support.
In agriculture nurseries or experimentation plants were created
according to the volunteer he/she believes convenient, previous coordination to
their arrival to Huancayo, the purpose is to improve crops, siembras or other since
Huancayo is par excellence a farming town and one has a great variety of tubers
and plants. Our objective is that that person when reaching her age majority is
a great excellent farmer for the development of the region, for her sustenance and
that of her family.
In cattle raising: the volunteer will teach his reaches and improvements
as for the cattle raising in such a way that improves the races of the animals,
the growth and other, so that it is avoided this way deaths by illnesses and others.
All the works will be accompanied by activities that the volunteers want to carry
out in such a way that cultural ideas are shared and it is observed an atmosphere
of happiness and friendship. When concluding the volunteer's works people they will
expose the works to the whole community and a special farewell will be made in gratefulness
to the volunteer's work. Our objective is that that youth when reaching her age
majority is a cattleman I prosper contributing this way to the region and having
economic revenues for him and her family.
General Medicine:
The work
will be carried out in the villages in open air. The work will be done by the volunteer
and a person in charge, who offers support. Health campaigns will be raised: -sexual
orientation, course on sexuality -family planning, due to the increase in adolescent
mothers in the villages -First Aid Workshops -Hygiene and health workshops -Nutrition
for children, healthy nutrition, balance of nutrients And others that the volunteer
suggests and wishes to put into practice. The volunteer will get to know different
villages and different life conditions, which makes this an unforgettable experience.
Computation:
The work will
be carried out within a previously rented and equipped room. The work will be put
into practice thanks to the volunteer and a person in charge. In general the program
'Office' is going to be taught. If the volunteer wishes, he cans teach other programs
as well. It's not necessary to be professional in computation to be able to teach.
The computer skills to be taught are at a basic level and there will also be diverse
activities, such as games, going for walks, or anything that the volunteer considers
appropriate and convenient. We wish that the friendships between all will be strengthened
and that this will be an unforgettable experience for the volunteer. We are going
to provide 2 laptops that can be taken to the various villages and used for the
computation class (if you like to offer your financial support to buy computers
see the 'projects' link). At the end of the volunteering period, the students are
going to demonstrate what they have learnt and there will be a goodbye ceremony
for all people who wish to express their gratitude for the help they have received.
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