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Emotional Nurturing & Child Care at Tacloban Facility

The experience

Provide emotional care, educational support, and fun for abandoned children! 🧸

We are seeking compassionate individuals to provide the vital interaction and emotional support that is currently lacking due to high caregiver-to-child ratios.

What you offer

4 hours of help per day

Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 1190 One time

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: $1,190 US Dollars for 4 weeks $120 for each week thereafter The fee covers essential services: Homestay Accommodation, 2 meals daily, Airport Reception, program orientation, Waray Waray language lesson, and 24-hour local staff support. This fee is paid directly to the host. Note that Airfares, Insurance, and Visa costs are not included.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner English

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Your Role Focuses On:

Emotional Nurturing: Providing individual attention to children who thrive on it.

Skill Enrichment: Running activities to boost their social, motor functional, and cognitive skills.

Household Support: Assisting house parents and nuns with daily chores and supervision.

A note on Experience: No formal training is required, but compassion and adaptability are crucial. Prospective volunteers who have experienced similar childhood trauma must have received counseling to manage the emotional demands of this setting.

Activities & Shift

Activities:

Enrichment Activities: Organizing and running learn and play activities and fun games to boost self-esteem.

Educational Support: Helping children to read and creating a schedule of different activities.

Child Supervision: Babysitting and providing vital interaction with children aged one month to twelve years.

Daily Support: Assisting house parents and nuns with daily chores.

Shifts:

Hours: 6 hours per day (minimum of 30 hours per week).

Schedule: 08:00 AM – 12 Noon (Morning) and 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Afternoon), Monday to Friday.

Rules

Emotional Preparedness: Prospective volunteers who have experienced similar childhood trauma must have received counseling for themselves.

Duration: Minimum stay is 4 weeks; maximum is 6 months.

Age: Minimum age is 18.

Logistics: International or Domestic Airfares, Insurance, and Visa costs are not included.

Homestay Respect: You must respect the cultural norms and house rules of your local host family.

Traits: Volunteers must be compassionate, non-judgmental, and highly adaptable.