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Closer to Home Volunteering in Australia
Description
While closer to home, living and working in a remote Indigenous community offers a cultural experience that is worlds apart. It is a privilege that the communities offer to very few Australians, and you'll find it alters your values and beliefs, and challenges you in ways you never realized! Becoming immersed in the world's oldest living culture can be extremely gratifying and enriching, but requires real dedication, motivation, flexibility and a sense of humor. The communities are remote, so you'll need to be prepared to change your lifestyle in many ways: your diet, social life, climate - not to mention language, with English often being the second or third language spoken.
The placements we offer in Australia are very diverse - you could be helping indigenous pupils in a classroom, arranging activities at an outdoor camp or getting involved in conservation work in remote areas which need preserving. All our placements offer a challenging experience so volunteers need to be open-minded and able to adapt to new environments.
Projects:
* Schools - traditional day and boarding (6 or 11 months)
* Schools indigenous (6 months)
* Conservation (5 months)
* Outdoor Camps (6-11 months)
* Community (12 months)
Highlights
Schools (Boarding) projects offer the chance for volunteers to live and work with young people from remote Indigenous communities. For many pupils it will be the first time they have attended formal education. Schools will be all Indigenous or have a mixture of white and Aboriginal students.
Volunteers will help to supervise pupils in the boarding house, before and after school and at weekends. Volunteers will assist in the classroom with one to one tutoring and group work, this is particularly important for pupils with low levels of grammar and literacy. Help will also be required in intensive English programs for children who do not have English as their native language.
Volunteers will learn a tremendous amount about Indigenous culture and their communities but will need to be patient, tolerant, flexible and resourceful.
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