Work in Orphanages
Despite the rich cultural and natural beauty, hunger and poverty still staggers the development of Sri Lanka. Thousands of children are forced to desert their home in search of job and food to nearby cities. Moreover, 20-year of civil war on the one hand and destructive Tsunami of 2004, on the other, have left many children homeless, dejected and orphans. Local social workers and organizations have instigated many orphanages to provide these children a bright future and to protect them from the neglect and violence of miserable street life. RCDP-Sri Lanka in collaboration with local orphanages and children support organizations invites compassionate volunteers to work for these displaced, abused, abandoned and needy orphans to lead them a happy and prosperous life. If you have a strong enthusiasm and willingness to create a positive impact in the lives of these innocent children, your helping hands are always welcomed solely for the advantage of the orphans.
Your Responsibilities as a Volunteer:
As a volunteer joining in orphanage program in Sri Lanka, you will primarily support the needy orphans and children for their overall development. Volunteers support children in teaching basic conversational English, health, sanitation, music, art, dance and other physical activities. You will teach English 3-4 hours a day for the children. You can also help children with their homework and monitor in academic activities. You can take the children for shopping or visiting to different places in free time. Most importantly, your love, care, affection, inspiration are indispensable for them. You can also involve in fund raising activity for the project to safeguard the life of these orphans.
Skills Required:
No skills or qualifications are needed to join orphanage project. Your most essential requirement is love, affection and well treatment to children. You should have strong enthusiasm to work for children. Volunteers should also be flexible, self-motivated with openness to a new culture and should have a willingness to learn.
Project Location:
Our projects are located in a beautiful town of Galle, 5 hours drive from Colombo, near the southern end of the country. And it's a district that boasts a great variance of scenarios, from beaches to marsh lands to dry planes to hills. During their free time, volunteers can visit to beautiful beaches, monasteries, temples, parks, churches, museums, art galleries etc. There are many beautiful villages nearby Galle where volunteers can visit and explore Sri Lankan typical culture, way of living style, people, society and so on.
Room/Food/Supervision
RCDP-Sri Lanka arranges room, food, and supervision for our volunteer from the very beginning to the end of the program. Volunteers stay with host family during the first week of language and cultural program. Host family arranges you a separate room providing Sri Lankan meal thrice a day. During your work as a volunteer, you will also live with host family in warm, welcoming and pleasing environment. They provide you a separate room. You may have to share shower and bathroom facilities with host families. We can also manage you to stay in hotel with little more additional fee, if you like. Volunteers will have 24/7 access to our office in Sri Lanka by e-mail or telephone. Our staff also will visit each volunteers in every one to two weeks to acknowledge their situation and to have feedback of the program.
