International Volunteer Workcamps - season 2008
Brazil
	Network	Country	Camp code	Type	Date start	Date finish	Age limit
	SCI	Brazil	BR-SVI 5.1	KIDS	12.06.2008	29.06.2008	18+
	description
	BR-SVI 5.1  LAR DE MEIMEI (Itajubá)
	12/06 – 29/06. 5 vols.  
	KIDS, SOCI
	
	Lar de Meimei is a centre for children education where socially disavantaged people can leave their kids for free to 
	spend the day while they go to work. Today there are 55 kids using the centre every day (morning and afternoon). 
	The kids are from 3 to 6 years old.
	
	W: There will be 4 kinds of work to be done by the volunteers: 1) help the teachers in the classroom activities, 
	mainly related to arts; 2)build and decorate a small recreative park for the kids, 3) help with the cleaning and 
	kitchen tasks and 4) help with the traditional “Festa Junina”, when the families of the kids are invited for a 
	traditional celebration. The work in itself will be done from Monday to Friday, mornings and afternoons, and during 
	one saturday, the 28th, the day scheduled for the “Festa Junina”. Before starting the work, the volunteers will have
	 some days with activities planned to introduce them in the social context and in the team of colleagues working in 
	the Lar de Meimei.
	S: There will be a short lecture about the social work done by the institution beyond the “Lar de Meimei”. Other 
	lectures related to the social context of the project will be prepared and better described in the infosheet.
	A: The 5 volunteers will be acommodated in a house of one local family involved in the Lar de Meimei project. The 
	house is big enough to acommodate well the volunteers and it is very near (10 minutes walk) from the Lar de 
	Meimei. The food for the volunteers will be arranged in the hosting house and in the Lar de Meimei facilities.
	L: English, Spanish and/or Portuguese. To promote the interaction with the local workers and with the kids, we 
	prefer volunteers with some knowledge of Portuguese and/or with high-motivations (a letter would be appreciated).
	Q: We would like to host volunteers highly motivated to be useful, to learn and to bring her/his own ideas on how to
	 improve the educational work done with these kids from 3 to 6 years old.
	T: Itajubá is a mid-size (rather small for a Brazilian standard) town in the extreme south of the Minas Gerais State, 
	in the Southeast region of Brasil. It has around 90 thousend inhabitants. It can easily be reached by bus from Belo 
	Horizonte or São Paulo. Arrival details will be informed in the infosheet. It is a town surrounded by mountains and 
	full of college students. There are several high-level colleges in the town.
	X: There is no maximun age limit. We prefer volunteers not younger than 21 years old. Exceptions can be done if 
	well justified. There is a placement fee of EUR 150,00 to be paid by the incoming volunteer in the arrival day to 
	cover SVI Brasil administrative expenses. SVI Brasil is a not-for-profit NGO and its financial administration will be 
	soon available to be checked on-line by everyone interested. Feel free also to ask any clarification you want about
	 how the placement fees are used by SVI Brasil. We strive to be an example of transparency.
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	Network	Country	Camp code	Type	Date start	Date finish	Age limit
	SCI	Brazil	BR-SVI 6.2	ENVI	05.07.2008	26.07.2008	18+
	description
	BR-SVI 6.2  MARIA DE BARRO (Nazareno)
	05/07 – 26/07. 20 vols. 
	ENVI, SOCI 
	
	“Projeto Maria de Barro” is a NGO which promote social and environmental local development projects since 
	September 1999. The main project aims to recover extremely eroded soils, developing and applying new 
	environmental technologies. They also create jobs in a poor community and promote environmental conscience. It 
	is located in a very small and not developed town called Nazareno.
	
	More information about the organisation can be found at  (http://www.projetomariadebarro.org.br)
	
	W: The volunteers will be involved in 4 kinds of work: 1) production of forest seedlings, 2) collecting forest seeds, 
	3) planting seedlings and 4) support on environment education lectures for kids and teenagers.
	S: Short lectures on the activities held by the “Projeto Maria de Barro” and other related issues will be held. We will 
	also provide one or more lectures/discussion group about the historical exploration of the native forests in Brasil.
	A: All the volunteers will be acommodated in the Projeto Maria de Barro lodge, it is a big building where many of the
	 organisation activities are done. There will be very basic facilities there: dormitory, bathroom, toilet and kitchen. 
	Enough food will also be available for the volunteers in the lodge.
	L: English, Spanish and/or Portuguese. To promote the interaction with the local workers and the local community, 
	we prefer volunteers with some knowledge of Portuguese and/or with high-motivations (a letter would be 
	appreciated).
	Q: We would like to host volunteers highly motivated to be useful, to learn and to bring her/his own ideas on how to
	 improve the work done in the “Projeto Maria de Barro”.
	T: Nazareno is a lovely very small town with only 7 thousend inhabitants, what is very small for a Brazilian 
	standard. Nazareno is not well developed, although it is near by important towns such as Lavras or São João Del 
	Rey. It is located in the centre-south of Minas Gerais State and can easily be reached by bus from Belo Horizonte.
	 Arrival details will be informed in the infosheet. The people from Nazareno are very simple, rural and hospitable. 
	They will be very curious about your international backgrounds! 
	X: There is no maximun age limit. We prefer volunteers not younger than 21 years old. Exceptions can be done if 
	well justified. There is a placement fee of EUR 150,00 to be paid by the incoming volunteer in the arrival day to 
	cover SVI Brasil administrative expenses. SVI Brasil is a not-for-profit NGO and its financial administration will be 
	soon available to be checked on-line by everyone interested. Feel free also to ask any clarification you want about
	 how the placement fees are used by SVI Brasil. We strive to be an example of transparency.
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