Environment

Volunteering with young people in Salvador, Brazil, is a rich, vibrant experience in a unique culture...

Volunteers in this project in a coastal village north of Salvador, Bahia, will work for a month teaching English to teenagers around the theme of the Living Seas. Volunteers will encourage adolescents to develop social responsibility by understanding and appreciating the importance of the oceans to their local community, and through that to the wider world. At the end of the module, the volunteer will help participants present a show to the local community.

The volunteering work will take place on weekends. There is some flexibility as to the length of time spent on this project – it would be possible to design a two or three month module instead of a month.

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Environmental Volunteering in Brazil, Ecological Sanctuary, Rio Grande do Norte

Environmental volunteering in this ecological Sanctuary will help to re-establish a part of the Atlantic Rainforest in the north east of Brazil, where it has been greatly destroyed by small scale agriculture. The volunteering work involves planting seeds and saplings, clearing paths and the formation and planting of a botanical garden of local flora.

At certain times of the year, it will be possible to volunteer for the vital work involved with the marking and protection of turtle nests.

There is a small resource centre at the Sanctuary which needs volunteer help to improve it. The botanical garden project is part of this initiative and volunteers with experience and/or interest in gardening can help improve visitors’ understanding and appreciation of the fragility of this environment.

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