Caring placements

Product Details

Caring placements are in an institute for children who are unable to be looked after by their parents. There are many children from one family as they do not want to split the families up. The children range from babies to 16 years old. The older children living in the house do all the housework and look after the children. There is a very strong community atmosphere in the centre and you soon become one of the family.

All the volunteers who have been there have loved it and don’t want to leave! However, as it can be expected, these placements are tougher and more demanding than other, and not for the faint hearted.

Locations

Lattitude teaching placements are nearly all in the west of the country, never far from the Andes. They stretch from Salta in the north, close to the Bolivian border, to Neuquen in the south, the largest city of Argentine Patagonia, and going eastwards to Buenos Aires and Cordoba.

Skills required

A good level of Spanish is necessary for this rewarding work. The nature of the work requires Volunteers to have a good command of conversational Spanish - a minimum of UK GCSE standard. However if you have no Spanish but are willing to learn, you may also be considered.

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"Argentina experiences to reflect upon. I certainly think about my time in Argentina quite frequently and when I first got home my friends must have got tired of the line 'when I was in Argentina' I would thoroughly recommend young people leaving school to take a gap year of some form before commencing University or college. I am very grateful to Lattitude for awarding me one of their bursaries otherwise I would have been unable to afford a gap Year. I hope you continue to help young people such as myself grow into well rounded and Confident members of society."