Cofradia's Bilingual School - Teach English in Honduras!

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The school is located in the lovely town of Cofradia, Cortes, near to the Caribbean coast of Honduras. We aim to offer a top-quality, affordable bilingual education to our children and a level of community support and involvement that does not exist in the local public schools. Many of our kids come from very low socio-economic backgrounds and thanks to our volunteers we are able to offer them a free or low cost bilingual education they could not otherwise afford. Being bilingual in Honduras is a massive advantage and gives our kids the chance to end the cycle of poverty for themselves and for their families.

In order to offer a free or low cost education to our students, we are reliant on foreign volunteers coming to teach with us throughout the year. The school is founded on the principle that education empowers students to lead lives of their own creation. Students who attend our school become responsible, motivated, and passionate people ready to build a brighter future for themselves, their community and their country.

Our school has been educating the students of Cofradia for over 20 years and follows the The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Whilst our volunteers are required to plan lessons, we have an effective and easy to use curriculum in place for our teachers.

Our volunteers love working with the students at our school as well as the bond that is created between our teachers. At any one time we normally have between 9 and 13 volunteers teaching with us. Our volunteers typically spend the time after school together and often travel together at the weekends. A typical afternoon can be cooking together, watching a movie using our projector or walking to the local river. Our volunteers come for the students but often leave with life long friends.

All volunteer-taught classes are conducted in English, so Spanish-language skills are not required. Prior teaching experience is not required to work at our school. While experience in education is certainly beneficial, we place more importance on highly passionate and dedicated volunteers who want to make a difference in the lives of our students.

We are now looking for help from our volunteers to help teach for Kinder (ages 4-5) through 11th Grade (ages 16-17) for the 2021/2022 school year. For the sake of consistency and to insure maximum progress and success for our students, we do prefer to accept volunteers that commit to the entire academic year (10 months). However we welcome enthusiastic teachers who can only come for shorter periods to be classroom assistants, resource teachers and/or can offer something really special for either the students or the community in general. In return for volunteering with us, we offer free accommodation in our volunteer house as well as 2 cooked meals per day and group food available to cook for evening meals.

For more information, email our Volunteer Coordinator at MissStephanieCBS@gmail.com. Please do not use volunteer@cofradiaschool.com as the domain is currently down.

Check out our YouTube video: https://youtu.be/8-R-l9YINZM