Gambia volunteer project: Nursery school support
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Country: The Gambia
Dates: Anytime
Description: Share your nursery and creative learning skills at Bijilo Nursery School. Work with local teachers in their school to help them give their children the best start possible.
Price: £1295 (4 weeks) based on bed and breakfast in a small hotel whose owners are huge supporters of the volunteer programme and have been recognised internationally for their responsible tourism practises. Additional weeks are priced at a sliding reducing rate.
Dates: Anytime
Description: Share your nursery and creative learning skills at Bijilo Nursery School. Work with local teachers in their school to help them give their children the best start possible.
Price: £1295 (4 weeks) based on bed and breakfast in a small hotel whose owners are huge supporters of the volunteer programme and have been recognised internationally for their responsible tourism practises. Additional weeks are priced at a sliding reducing rate.
Included: accommodation and breakfast, airport transfers, full local orientation, city tour, social event, weekend hike, local SIM card, project & placement liaison. Your project donation will be used for the purchase of essential equipment and teaching aids. Previous donations have been used to purchase training equipment.
Not included: flights, insurance, visa costs, personal expenses such as phone calls, medical expenses, etc..
For meals (other than breakfast), an allowance of £10 to £20 per day will be more than sufficient.
Not included: flights, insurance, visa costs, personal expenses such as phone calls, medical expenses, etc..
For meals (other than breakfast), an allowance of £10 to £20 per day will be more than sufficient.
How your money is spent based on 4 weeks
The volunteering...
Based on your skills, you will work with local teachers in their school to help them give their children the best start possible. The principal Mr Carrjobe would welcome the following skills and volunteer input:
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I’ve seen a few classrooms now with the odd thing obviously donated by well-meaning visitors from abroad – the odd reading book or coloured poster, and they always look at though they are just put on one side or sellotaped to the wall and never looked at, for example alphabet friezes with half the sections missing. I’m coming to realise that donating things is a waste of money, the important thing is to raise the quality of teachers." Dianne, volunteer 2009
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The difference...
Giving back to the destination
80% of your fee reaches the host country! Each project is costed individually, you can find the details at the top of this page. the project will show not only how your money is spent, but also where it is spent – which is perhaps even more important. This project assumes that you want the vast majority of your money to be spent with your hosts, not in the UK!
Furthermore, we give you the opportunity to give straight back to community projects in the destination through our partner, TravelPledge. This means that whatever you wish to donate to specific projects in the destination will go directly there.
Teaching students, teaching teachers
Early childhood care and development has become part of the basic education title in The Gambia, given the importance of the early years development for children. The education policy (2004-2015) acknowledges the importance of these early years, and the department of state for education has developed linkages with other governments, NGOs and local authorities and local communities to promote an integrated approach to ECD. Since ECD is largely provided by the private sector, affordability becomes an issue and poses a major constraint for poor households. The problem becomes more pronounced in the rural areas where poverty is more acute and where the traditional practice of leaving children in the care of siblings or grandparents, or having children accompanying their mothers to the farm or other work places still remains the dominant practice for early childhood care.
You will be helping the programme develop through teaching the skills that you have to offer to Gambian teachers and educators. This will allow the sustainability of the project, but will also provide opportunities for educators to learn skills they would not normally have the possibility to learn subsequently benefiting the children that they teach.
Empowerement
You will work effectively for local communities, this project works with local people – they work in full and open partnership with responsible and professional teams who have close links to their own communities. You will be working with local people not replacing local labour to help them build the future they want for themselves.
80% of your fee reaches the host country! Each project is costed individually, you can find the details at the top of this page. the project will show not only how your money is spent, but also where it is spent – which is perhaps even more important. This project assumes that you want the vast majority of your money to be spent with your hosts, not in the UK!
Furthermore, we give you the opportunity to give straight back to community projects in the destination through our partner, TravelPledge. This means that whatever you wish to donate to specific projects in the destination will go directly there.
Teaching students, teaching teachers
Early childhood care and development has become part of the basic education title in The Gambia, given the importance of the early years development for children. The education policy (2004-2015) acknowledges the importance of these early years, and the department of state for education has developed linkages with other governments, NGOs and local authorities and local communities to promote an integrated approach to ECD. Since ECD is largely provided by the private sector, affordability becomes an issue and poses a major constraint for poor households. The problem becomes more pronounced in the rural areas where poverty is more acute and where the traditional practice of leaving children in the care of siblings or grandparents, or having children accompanying their mothers to the farm or other work places still remains the dominant practice for early childhood care.
You will be helping the programme develop through teaching the skills that you have to offer to Gambian teachers and educators. This will allow the sustainability of the project, but will also provide opportunities for educators to learn skills they would not normally have the possibility to learn subsequently benefiting the children that they teach.
Empowerement
You will work effectively for local communities, this project works with local people – they work in full and open partnership with responsible and professional teams who have close links to their own communities. You will be working with local people not replacing local labour to help them build the future they want for themselves.
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