Projects
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This is a wonderful opportunity to live as part of a unique culture on an island in this particularly beautiful part of Brazil. This traditional fishing community needs volunteers to help teach English, create a local library, develop sustainable tourist attractions, assist with setting up rural enterprises, advice and training in hygiene and basic health/nutrition, and their young people would like to learn music, drama and IT. -
Volunteers in this project in a coastal village north of Salvador, Bahia, will design a month-long module around the theme of the Living Seas. The aim is to encourage adolescents to develop social responsibility through the understanding and appreciating the importance of the oceans to their local community, and through that to the wider world. -
The Reserve covers 4,000 hectares of land, including mountains, in Rio de Janeiro State. The primary work of the reserve is the reforestation of the land and the re-establishment of the wetlands. The reserve is a well-known centre for rare birds. There is much work for volunteers in all areas of tree planting and care, clearing paths, cataloguing flora and fauna, assisting with parties of school children on educational trips. -
Margarida, originally from Switzerland, started this community school in a very poor neighbourhood of Camaçarí. The school provides places for 150 children aged between 3 and 8 years who attend either in the morning or the afternoon. -
The Sanctuary seeks 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 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 be involved with marking and protecting turtle nests.
