Travel Tree Country: SOUTH AFRICA Help children to read near Cape Town, South Africa REQUEST MORE INFORMATION »» i-to-i Woodside House Low Lane Horsforth Leeds UNITED KINGDOM LS18 5NY Phone: +44 (0) 870 333 2332 Program description: Share your love of books with young children living in Cape Town’s coastal suburb of Muizenburg. Illiteracy is a major problem in South Africa with one in four adults unable to read, as a result many children are lacking the basic skills which would enable them to receive a full and rewarding education. Your role will involve reading to the children and helping them to read stories and your influence as a literate and caring adult will help them to develop a love of books and see education as both accessible and achievable. The Help to Read child literacy initiative is a pilot programme currently operating in Muizenberg, and aims to expand into further schools that want help within the next two years. The child literacy project helps children love books! By recruiting and training volunteers to help children aged 5-12 who find reading difficult. Those of us that love to read have enjoyed privileges most of us have taken for granted:     Parents who read bedtime stories,     Books in English lying around the house,     At the very least, an adult in the family able to read and write English. Many South African children have parents who can’t read or write English and who, therefore, can’t read to them. Yet, without this, kids tend to fall behind their peers, losing confidence and self esteem. With the loss of confidence comes the loss of pleasure: kids who don’t feel confident about their reading simply don’t like reading, or books. And why should they? For many of those children, reading has only ever been torture and humiliation. Those that don’t read outside of school have only ever had the school’s books imposed on them, and those books may not interest them. They’ve never had the opportunity to choose what interests them, and to explore that. General program information: Program open to: Everyone Living arrangements on the program: Independent Living How long does the program last?: 1-3 Months Cost or price of this program: £1295 for 4 weeks. £75 for each additional week Qualifications required: TEFL certificate (included in project fee) Other Teaching Positions listings from i-to-i nepal Teach Buddhist monks in Nepal nepal Work with Nepalese Children lima, peru Teach orphans in Lima india Teach disadvantaged children in Jaipur australia Care for endangered wallabies in the outback la paz, bolivia Teach English in La Paz la paz, bolivia Support the children of La Paz rio de janerio, brazil Community Work with children in Rio de Janeiro china Teach English in Yanqing costa rica Teach in rural Costa Rica costa rica Costa Rica Urban Teaching dominican republic Teach English in the Caribbean ecuador Teach English in rural Ecuador ecuador Teach English to children in Quito australia, ireland, united kingdom Online Tefl Course korea republic of Paid Teaching Jobs in Korea ghana Teach children in Accra guatemala Teach in underprivileged schools in Guatemala guatemala Support children with disabilities guatemala Create new futures for orphaned children la esperanza, honduras Teach English in La Esperanza tegucigalpa, honduras Teach English in Tegucigalpa india Teach students in Bangalore india Teach English in an arts community bangalore, india Support community work in Bangalore jaipur, india Encourage disabled youth in Jaipur calcutta, india Improve the future of Calcutta's youth kitengela, kenya Teach English in Kitengela mexico Teaching underprivileged communities in Monterrey south africa Care for Special Needs children near Cape Town sri lanka Teach English in urban or rural areas moshi, tanzania Teaching English in Moshi moshi, tanzania Community work with children in Moshi thailand Community work with children in Thailand thailand Teach English in coastal Thailand vietnam Teach at a Summer Camp in Hanoi vietnam Teach children English in Hanoi iguazu national park, argentina Teaching staff at Iguazu National Park jaipur, india Community work in the deprived areas of Jaipur posadas, argentina Teach English in Posadas rio de janeiro, brazil Teach English in Rio de Janeiro mombasa, kenya Teaching English in Mombasa honduras Teach English in coastal Honduras ecuador Teach English in the Galapagos islands darjeeling, india i-to-i: Teaching English in Darjeeling taiwan province of china Paid Teaching in Taiwan salvador, brazil Teach English on Brazil's coast dominican republic Teach English in rural areas of the Caribbean quito, ecuador Teach English to youngsters in Quito calcutta, india Teach English in Calcutta delhi, india Teach English in Delhi nairobi, kenya Teaching English near Nairobi mexico Teach English in the villages of rural Mexico thailand Paid Teaching Jobs in Thailand hungary Paid Teaching Jobs in Hungary brazil Paid Teaching in Brazil greece Paid Teaching in Greece honduras Paid Teaching in Honduras indonesia Paid Teaching in Indonesia vietnam Paid Teaching in Vietnam Back   New Search   Send to a friend