The Children’s House – Helping single parents out with daycare

Location: Antigua, Guatemala

This project, The Children´s house, functions as a day care center for single parent families. It began 15 years ago as a day care center for mothers who were working at the local market in Antigua.
There are more than 50 children between 9 months and 6 years old. It is a typical day care center, but with extra emphasis on personal care and education. The children arrive, take a bath, then the foundation provides each child with a proper breakfast and they begin with classes. This is a very well organized day care center, with ample facilities and a small but professional staff. Volunteers help organize recreational and educational activities and support the staff in maintaining childcare. There are a lot of activities and responsibilities that volunteers can do and have to do. All children in the day-care centre need help with their daily personal care. This includes bathing, feeding and playing with them.
Volunteers work every day from Monday till Friday, but can choose if they want to work the whole day or only in the mornings. The afternoons are optional and most volunteers work just in the mornings.
It is important to consider that volunteers must be able to work with very little supervision and thus should be independent and responsible.

Are you interested and would you like to volunteer in this project? Contact us !