Escola Casa do Mar

NOTE ON RESPONSE RATE:
It is temporarily low because we missed some applications last week. Please still send your application. We respond to everyone and are actively looking for volunteers.

We accept 95% of volunteer applications :)

Trailer (2024):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ssWXqHEZH4

Trailer (2023):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZCGImgB8jk

Share a beautiful bilingual home with a dozen fellow travellers,

As you Teach, Paint, Make or Climb around Rio de Janeiro.

It is no problem if you speak no English or no Portuguese, but best that you speak at least a little of one!

OUR FOUR PROGRAMS:

1. The Escola Casa do Mar English Teaching Program: Assist at our English School & Gain an TEFL Certificate (Optional)

We teach 120 students, 100% free of charge, at 4 sites across Vidigal, Rocinha and Mandela 1 (Zona Norte). Classes are conducted in small groups, with an average teacher:student ratio of 1:3. No experience is necessary, and no Portuguese is necessary.

Our Vidigal house: https://www.airbnb.com.br/rooms/48282753
Our house in Santa Teresa: https://www.airbnb.com.br/rooms/27428250

(Please ignore the prices here, the airbnb links are just to check out the photos of the houses).

Sharing one of our beautiful houses with a dozen of your fellow volunteers, you’ll live in community, with everyone united in a shared act of creation at the school, and eager to enjoy the beach, go out to dance, and embrace life in Rio de Janeiro. You can choose to live at our charming 19th-century house in Santa Teresa, Rio's bohemian, hilltop neighbourhood, and spend your evenings and weekends lounging by the house pool and running wild and free. Or choose to live inside Vidigal, Rio’s safest favela, at Casa do Mar, a glass-fronted house opening out directory onto the rainforest, with uninterrupted views of the ocean, and monkeys playing in the canopy.

Outside of the school, we build community using weekly churrascos, weekly trips into nature (Parque Nacional do Tijuca; surfing at the beach; hikes) and regular trips to the Teatro Municipal, along with favela parties. Everyone is invited to everything, there are no cliques. And just being you is enough.

The Escola Casa do Mar team is made up of a group of Brazilians and foreigners living in Rio de Janeiro. We are deeply passionate about our projects, and grateful to be able to make a contribution to this wonderful city. You'll most likely find us at Posto 12 "in the process of getting into surfing".