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The beauty of this kind of travel is that you can still do all of the things you would do on a typical tourist holiday – visit the sites, sample the food – whilst still making a valuable difference to people’s lives by helping out at an orphanage in Santo Domingo.
The projects that volunteers work with aim to help disadvantaged children and bring them off the streets or prevent them from becoming street children where the parents are unable to support them fully. These projects need volunteers to help provide English teaching as well as other social skills that they will gain through interaction with volunteers and staff. English is a sought after skill in the Dominican Republic, opening up the door to advanced educational opportunities and career choices.
These projects do not have English speaking staff and there is not enough funding to provide English teachers. Volunteers are desperately needed to support the staff running the centres, and to provide some basic skills, English lessons and most of all love to the children. Finally, as this tour lasts for only 2 weeks, volunteers go into the project full of energy and enthusiasm. Consequently, a lot can be done is this short period of time and the local people can really benefit form this. Furthermore this a great taster for longer volunteering positions, with many of our volunteers going on to participate in longer placements helping making even more of a difference.
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