Below you will find brief descriptions of the work we do while in each country. Please keep in mind that although we have worked in these placements for years, they could change at any time; this is the nature of working in developing countries, so you should always remain flexible.
Tanzania: L.O.A.M.O school in Arusha, Tanzania, is home to 500 students from baby class to grade 7. We teach every day from 8:00am-3:00pm and get to teach a variety of subjects, experiments and fun concepts! There is no place on earth like this school. For between 10-14 days we will be immersed in teaching, giving and loving to the students, staff and families of this incredible institution. You will feel your confidence grow every day and our students are usually teaching 4-6 classes a day, with their teaching partners. We will be teaching 30-50 children in each classrooms, so THIS IS HARD WORK, but nothing you cannot handle with the right attitude and work ethic!
Nepal: LISHA school serves children from Dattatraya square, located in Bhaktapur, Nepal about 40 minutes from Kathmandu. The school is walking distance (10 minutes) from our guesthouse. Our student volunteers teach classes daily from 10:00am-3:00pm with classes from 4th to 10th grade. Each day we also save time to help at the pre-school which is 2 blocks away from the primary campus. Our home visits take place after school and are our chance to sit in the homes of the children we are teaching and learn about their culture and way of life. This trip is filled with cultural experiences throughout the trip so you will really get a great understanding of what life is like for our Nepalese friends. For 2025 we are also tentatively planning a surprise weekend trip!
This trip will not be offered in 2025-We have been working in Cambodia for ten years and it is our longest running program. In Cambodia we will work this year at a school in the Kampot province. The school has been in operation for 27 years. There are 230 students in 10 classrooms that range from 1st to 6th grade. While in Cambodia, we also teach basic care, hygiene, and self-sustainability. We work hard to improve the living conditions of the children and staff by repairing buildings, picking up trash, cleaning, and gardening.
During the day, we have two teams that trade-off between manual labor at the school when appropriate and teaching English and tutoring at the school. The children are learning basic and intermediate level English. Our job is to make it as fun and interactive as possible. You will be teaching in teams to enhance the learning experience and to offer support to your teammates.
The improvements made in the classroom and around the school will leave you with a heart full of pride and eyes wide open to some “you have to see it to believe it” living conditions. We are able to get a lot of work done in a short amount of time and help hundreds of people in the process.
We work in an artisan school that serves children from middle school to young adults in the old medina in Rabat, the capital city of Morocco. We walk through one of Morocco’s oldest outdoor markets every day on our way to school and often run into our students in the streets. We set up our “CGA English School” from inside this existing school which consists of 4 classrooms and 40-60 students total. The dedication the students show on a daily basis will change the way you look at your own opportunities, simply just to go to school. You will also have a new appreciation for your own teachers and the work that they do. After school we get to visit the homes of our students, meet their families and learn about their way of life. There are very few experiences that are as rewarding as this one! This trip will be between 10-14 days and include a variety of cultural experiences so you really get to experience and learn about this magical country.
We work at the El Tambo School in the rural farming town of El Tambo, Nicaragua, located about 2.5 hours from the capital city of Managua. This place is absolutely incredible and you will leave with a full heart and true sense that you did your part to help this community. The school is a 15 minute drive from our home base and enrolls 60 students ranging from pre-school through sixth grade. We will be teaching Monday-Friday from 7:00am to 12:00pm, teaching classes, working one on one with students, assisting teachers in their classrooms and supporting students. After school we teach an English class for the mothers in the community who want to better themselves and have more work opportunities. Then is our chance to meet the families and sit in the homes of our students to learn about their culture. These “home visits” typically happen 3 times per week during your trip, after our teaching is done for the day. We also get to experience Nicaraguan culture through different activities during the trip. This trip typically lasts 9 days and is tentatively scheduled for early June.