Fundacion Mariposas Amarillas, Santa Marta, Colombia

Mariposas Amarillas is a small Colombian grassroots organization committed to supporting disadvantaged children and families around Santa Marta, Colombia. We provide services (education, psychological assistance, recreation), supplies (food, clothing, items for school and home), and information on nutrition, education, and childcare to families in Santa Marta's poorest neighborhoods.

Volunteers are needed to teach a wide range of subjects including English, Art, Music, Dance, Sports, Spanish, and Math. Classes take place in rooms offered by the community and supplies are basic. Volunteers can teach as little as one class per week. If you would like to be a class teacher, though, we ask you to commit to a minimum of a three week volunteer period.

If you are coming for one or two weeks, you can work as a classroom assistant or organise your own art, music, sport or theatre etc projects with the children in conjunction with the teachers or before/after school.

We also run social work and community health programs, adult English classes and literacy programs, for which we always need volunteers.

You can find out more at our website, www.fmacolombia.weebly.com

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Fundacion Mariposas Amarillas
• Colombia
• volunteering
• Santa Marta
• teaching
• voluntourism