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Teach English, save turtles on Nicaragua's Pacific Coast - Paso Pacifico
ORGANIZATION: Seeds in the Middle
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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9 people are interested
Are you willing to go to the southern Pacific coast of Nicaragua? Then read on!
Are you an adventurer who wants to do good? Do you want to spend time at an off-the-beaten-track, tranquil, beachside community for little money? Do you want to empower women and girls and kids around the world?
This is a great opportunity for college-age students taking a gap year or a retiree looking for warm weather. Or anyone who just wants to enjoy a stunning, peaceful, exotic destination and do good at the same time.
Paso Pacifico, a conservation organization dedicated to preserving the forests and wildlife just north of the border from Costa Rica is developing eco-tourism by creating small businesses. It's called Project Ellas.
These phenomenal women - plus some men and children - can be guides, operate small hostels with a few rooms with private baths, run restaurants, lead horse-back riding or boat trips.
But they need to learn English.
So, Paso Pacifico is looking for folks willing to spend a few weeks at Ostional, Rivas, Nicaragua, volunteering to teach English and help them develop inexpensive, magical tourism opportunities for the whole family. No experience necessary, just a willingness to talk English!
There are expenses - but reasonable - count on $50 a day or less, plus your airfare.
If this sounds like you, email
- info@pasopacifico.org
- goodgreentravel@gmail.com
We'll tell you more! Ostional is just north of the Costa Rica border, and about 20 miles south of the Nicaraguan Pacific cruise port of San Juan del Sur.
See Paso Pacifico's work at pasopacifico.org
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About Seeds in the Middle
Location:
153 Warren Street, BROOKLYN, NY 11201, US
Mission Statement
Seeds in the Middle partners with students, educators, parents & their communities to access all opportunities, beginning with improving health, enhancing arts education and greening their environment. We empower and educate all to get healthy and scale educational and social disparities. Our pilot schools are in central Brooklyn, a neighborhood with among the city’s highest obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates. We teach how to grow, market, cook, access and prepare fresh food, how to exercise & engage in the arts, all the elements needed to promote life-changing lifelong health. Our volunteers come from all walks of life. We cross cultures. We transform gray into green, destitution into inspiration.
Description
Seeds in the Middle offers joyful, healthy interventions that nurture the whole child and address the multiple obstacles blocking low-income children and families from getting healthy. We teach how to grow edible gardens, run a student-led Hip2B Healthy Market, bring chefs into schools, started soccer, running and fitness programs at school and in the community and music and arts in the schools. We integrate professional development for teachers so that a healthy lifestyle and environmental stewardship becomes organic and sustainable in the school community. To build community, we created Soccer for Harmony tournaments and the Crown Heights Farmers Market. In two years, we have engaged more than 1,000 families, and students and teachers report changing their habits to include more fruits and vegetables, and fitness. This is a pilot for any school and Seeds in the Middle plans to replicate.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
OstionalBrooklyn, NY 11201
DATE POSTED
March 22, 2017
SKILLS
- Adult Education
- Teaching / Instruction
- Habitat Restoration
- English as a Secondary Language (ESL)
- English
- Spanish
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 18
- At least two weeks on site in Nicaragua
- Be adventurous, love the sea and nature, personable, easy with people