This project was created to help Indigenous families in Quito who are living on the streets. At the center the families have a place to stay, and their kids can go to the childcare center or school. Wawa Wasi Kuillurkkuna is situated in the historic colonial center of Quito, where the view is amazing and the house is historic and very beautiful. Beside the childcare center and the hospedaje for the families, is an antique Indigenous church where people congregate for weddings, funerals and baptisms. Below the church lies the remains of the very famous Eugenio Espejo.

Volunteers must be of age 18 or above with minimum education of high school. This placement does not need any volunteers in the month of Volunteers with the following special skills are preferred for the placement:- Emergency Medical Technician Health & Hygiene Training Child & Youth Worker Early Childhood Education Recreational Programming Social Worker (BSW) Social Work Student Psychologist Psychology Student Day Care Work Soccer Educational Games Guitar Piano Drums Other Musical Instruments Social Worker (MSW) Volunteers can assist by doing following tasks:- Volunteers help by playing with the children, teaching them in the school or daycare center, and providing them with a lot of attention.

Volunteers can also help create alternative projects and activites for the children to participate in. Volunteers can also choose to help with cleaning and maintaining the center, serving food and helping the children with their hygiene practices.

 Basecamp International welcomes all the interested volunteers from around the world to volunteer and make a difference. If you are interested in this placement then please contact us for the details: Email: info@basecampcenters.com Website: www.basecampcenters.com Mailing Address 298 Bagot Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7K 3B4 Phone: 613.541.7862 Toll Free : 866.646.4693 Fax: 613.541.1604

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I have a 2 almost 3 year old we love story time but books at walmart and everywhere else are like 5 bucks for the good ones in her age group and she scribbles in them sometimes so i know there are free books somewhere online i just cannot find them.The library is not an option books may be injured during their stay.

Yard sales, yard sales, yard sales. Don’t pass them by. They practically give them away. Any germs will be offset by the knowledge your children will gain.

Orphanage/homecare for those afflicted by poverty, abandonment, and physical or mental illness. Houses 40 beds for children, 35 for adults. This orphanage/home is run by Catholic missionaries. They serve children, adults (usually elderly) found on streets, abandoned and affected by poverty or physical or mental handicaps. Missionaries of Charity is an orphange/homecare facility that ensure that over 40 children and 35 adults are given a safe and comfortable place to live. Volunteers are needed to help enrich the lives of those individuals who live in the home by assisting with daily operational tasks because currently they are really under-staffed.

Volunteers can assist by doing following tasks:-

 Volunteers are needed to assist in daily tasks such as helping feed, bath and care for the children. Volunteers will also be needed to help teach the children various things such as reading, writing and educational games. Volunteers will be able to help design and implement various recreational programs, educational games depending upon interest of the volunteer and residents of the home.

Volunteers must be of age 18 or above with minimum education of high school. Volunteers with the following special skills are preferred for the placement:-

 Child & Youth Worker Early Childhood Education At-Risk Youth Work Leadership Programming Recreational Programming Social Work Student Day Care Work Teacher - English Teacher - Math Teacher - Environmental Science Handicraft Design Soccer Educational Games Guitar Piano Drums Other Musical Instruments

Basecamp International Centers welcomes all the interested volunteers from around the world to volunteer and make a difference. If you are interested in this placement then please contact us for the details: Email: info@basecampcenters.com Website: www.basecampcenters.com Mailing Address 298 Bagot Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7K 3B4 Phone: 613.541.7862 Toll Free : 866.646.4693 Fax: 613.541.1604

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Orphanage/homecare for those afflicted by poverty, abandonment, and physical or mental illness. Houses 40 beds for children, 35 for adults. This orphanage/home is run by Catholic missionaries. They serve children, adults (usually elderly) found on streets, abandoned and affected by poverty or physical or mental handicaps. Missionaries of Charity is an orphange/homecare facility that ensure that over 40 children and 35 adults are given a safe and comfortable place to live. Volunteers are needed to help enrich the lives of those individuals who live in the home by assisting with daily operational tasks because currently they are really under-staffed.

Volunteers can assist by doing following tasks:-

 Volunteers are needed to assist in daily tasks such as helping feed, bath and care for the children. Volunteers will also be needed to help teach the children various things such as reading, writing and educational games. Volunteers will be able to help design and implement various recreational programs, educational games depending upon interest of the volunteer and residents of the home.

Volunteers must be of age 18 or above with minimum education of high school. Volunteers with the following special skills are preferred for the placement:-

 Child & Youth Worker Early Childhood Education At-Risk Youth Work Leadership Programming Recreational Programming Social Work Student Day Care Work Teacher - English Teacher - Math Teacher - Environmental Science Handicraft Design Soccer Educational Games Guitar Piano Drums Other Musical Instruments

Basecamp International Centers welcomes all the interested volunteers from around the world to volunteer and make a difference. If you are interested in this placement then please contact us for the details: Email: info@basecampcenters.com Website: www.basecampcenters.com Mailing Address 298 Bagot Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7K 3B4 Phone: 613.541.7862 Toll Free : 866.646.4693 Fax: 613.541.1604

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A plethora of opportunities are open if a person decides to go into the field of child development. Mostly teachers and other people involved in educational field are common examples of such people and sometimes also social workers. Such people devote themselves to enhancing the mental and physical abilities of children and also focus on making them honest and responsible citizens.

Patience is the key to having a good career in the field of development of children. Each and every child is special and not the same when it come to their needs and desires that have to be addressed. The next crucial skill needed is proper communication. People in this field must be able to very clearly make the point they are trying to convey in such a way that the child understands.

To be successful in this career, being creative and being able to properly nourish a child is vital. If the child’s mind is constantly thinking and not idle, it can avoid many troubles as an adult. An important part of learning for children comes from playing, hence it should be a frequent activity in their school. From the teachers side, activities drawing, painting, music and writing works and other projects will help keep the child occupied. Respect for other people and their things can be thought only via healthy interactions with other kids.

Besides just teaching, the teacher has to do a lot of physically straining activities, like lifting, running , carrying books, picking up scattered and harmful objects. All this is inclusive of both things needed for the job as well as for the child’s needs.

Generally salary for doing work related to children development will start from six or seven till fifteen dollars nearly for every hour and it depends on what work is needed and where is the work situated.

Some recent findings show that the other avenues available for these workers will be drawing teacher, psychologist , all kinds of therapists for children , in educational institutions to mention a few.

So what is needed to be a children development worker ? All is based on the occupation liked by the specific person .Everyone should undergo through early and late childhood programs for children development .Also, all those getting into this field have to know the problems they might undergo when dealing with many children. Mostly requirements differ by region to state. Many ask for a degree in young education for children.

Rapid rise in population makes sure that plenty of jobs will be waiting for all who ask to get into child development programs. The options in this field are expanding due to huge demands for more such workers.
Start searching the news paper, maybe even online for more information about education needs, and the requirements, availability of job options nearby. Having a career in a field like child development is a boon for people who have patience and a ability to nurture.

Abhishek Agarwal
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"A father was stopped from taking a photo of his son on a children’s train ride after an over-zealous security guard accused him of being a paedophile.

Kevin Geraghty-Shewan, 48, was approached by the guard after he took the picture of his four-year-old son Ben on the toy engine outside a shop.

He was then threatened with arrest after refusing to hand his mobile phone containing the picture after a row with a policeman.

Mr Geraghty-Shewan said: ‘Ben saw a children’s ride which had a train on it and wanted to have a go because he’s obsessed with trains.’

Moments later, he was apprehended by the security guard.

The father-of-one, who was in the North East visiting family, said: ‘He said "you can’t take pictures in here". I asked why and he told me it was because for all he knew I could be a paedophile.

‘I told him Ben Was my son. But he said I couldn’t prove it.

‘I couldn’t believe it. I walked away and then I thought about making a complaint.’

A few minutes later a police officer arrived at the Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland and threatened to delete the photograph.

‘They said I matched the description of a man who had been taking pictures,’ Mr Geraghty-Shewan said.

‘They took my details and said they had the right to remove the picture from my phone.

‘I got annoyed and things got heated, then he threatened me with arrest for breach of the peace.

‘Ben thought I was in trouble because he had sat on the ride and we didn’t put the money in.’

Mr Geraghty-Shewan was so annoyed by the incident he posted a picture of the security guard on his blog.

A spokesman for the Bridges Shopping Centre said: ‘We take the safety at all our shopping centres very seriously.

‘We do ask our security guards across the estate to be diligent in implementing our security measures, which includes monitoring photography in our centres.

‘Unfortunately on this occasion what should have been a simple polite conversation led to a misunderstanding and we apologise for any offence caused.

‘It is always our aim to implement our security procedures with the minimum of fuss and disruption to our shoppers.’

A spokesman for Northumbria Police said: ‘We received reports of a disagreement over a photo taken on the premises of a shopping centre. No offence took place.’"
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Its just an excuse to clamp down on the british public, they are under a constant contraction of freedom and rights, its ironic that they have 20% of the worlds cctv cameras there, they can film you but you cant take a picture of your kid. They have all sorts of bizarre social controls in place. They use their anti terrorist laws to spy on their own public. Of course this sort of nonsense is cheered on and enforced by the likes of the security guard, feminists and other totalitarian state supporters.

Wiritng a term papaer on how children books look at the character of the loner or the outsider, do you know of any that deal with this kind of character?

You’re taking me back a ways, but I recall that Beverly Cleary did some great work on the outsider child. Particularly her Ramona books.

This organisation is working for the welfare of children with special needs. The atmosphere at the foundation is homey, warm and nurturing. This service offered by Fundacion Integrar is not often addressed by government social services funding. The foundation has therapists and teachers that work half days with the children, who receive care in the areas of motor skill coordination and therapy, physical therapy, early intervention, meals, language therapy, horseback riding therapy and hydrotherapy. In 2004 a group for teenagers was also started where they receive lessons in art and wood working, and how to help themselves adjust society.

Volunteers must be of age 18 or above with minimum education of high school. Volunteers with the following special skills are preferred for the placement:- Doctor Emergency Medical Technician Child & Youth Worker Early Childhood Education Recreational Programming Social Worker (BSW) Social Work Student Psychologist Psychology Student Day Care Work Computers - Web Design Educational Games Social Worker (MSW) Massage

 Volunteers can assist by doing following tasks:- Volunteers can work directly with these special children providing orientation for the different groups of children, learning about the children and getting to know them, facilitating and participating in group activities in music, theatre, handicrafts and dance, helping with mealtimes and teaching appropriate behaviour, helping once a week at the pool, and helping with horsebackriding. Making a difference in these childrens’ lives!

Basecamp International welcomes all the interested volunteers from around the world to volunteer and make a difference. If you are interested in this placement then please contact us for the details: Email: info@basecampcenters.com Website: www.basecampcenters.com Mailing Address 298 Bagot Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7K 3B4 Phone: 613.541.7862 Toll Free : 866.646.4693 Fax: 613.541.1604

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Why do people lie?  Why do some people seem to NOT be able to tell the truth even when the truth is clearly obvious or evident?  What makes a person tell lies instead of the truth?
Liars eventually get caught in their tangled web of lies and deceitfulness.  Lying hurts the liar and those who are subjected to the lies of the liar.  Lying hurts relationships and it makes the liar untrustworthy.  A liar violates the trust others may have had in them when they are caught in their lies.  Liars seem to carry an enormous amount of burden upon their shoulders.  Think about it…..  if you tell a lie,  then you have to live a lie and in order to live a lie,  you have to remember all the lies you tell and to whom.  Remembering the lies becomes quite a heavy burden.  Even if the liar lies just a little bit…..the pain they cause hurts alot.   Finding out someone you trusted has lied in such a horrific ways makes you wonder why they did this to begin with?  It causes you to wonder why they would not just ruin a relationship,  but completely break any possibilities of trusting.
Lying can spill over into other areas of your life such as on the job, with co-workers and employees if you run your own business.   Some people lie so much that they believe their lies and it then becomes their “truth”.  They become habitual liars.  People who discover their friend or family member has lied, feels cheated.  Especially when the lie is about them or becomes personal. 
Why do people feel compelled to lie?  First we must understand why the person has lied to begin with.  Are they afraid of the truth?  Are they afraid of being caught of wrong-doing?  Do they lie because there is something they want and feel the only way to get it is to lie?  Compulsive or habitual liars seem to be very lonely people.  Some liars must embellish stories so that others will befriend or like them…..or so, thinks the liar.  A liar who embellishes stories just to win over “friends” will eventually lose their “friends” when their lies have been discovered.
People who go through life lying believe that their lies  will make their lives better.  A person who lives their life by lying, does so to avoid the pain of living.  Their lives seem to be void of happiness and they live their life unfullfilled.  Some people try and justify their lies.  “They will be mad at me if they know the truth”;  “They won’t be my friend if I tell them the truth”.  Liars attack their accuser because they believe it makes the lie less than what it is, but the truth is…a lie is a lie and there’s no such thing as a “little white lie”. 
A liar lives a miserable life and it seems that they are only  happy when everyone around them is just as miserable as they are.  It makes no sense.  With the case involving my estranged sisters who continue to this day to make up lies and stories of things that never happened,  their untruthful internet postings are basically written to try and make my life as miserable as their own.  They believe that it is okay to hurt people they know because this is what they themselves were taught as children.  They grew up in a very dysfunctional family unit which causes them to continue to live their lives as dysfunctional adults.
Lies diminish feelings we have for one another and lies decrease the love we may have felt for one another.  Lies destroy relationships.  Lies  extinquish hope, trust and friendship as well as remove any possibility to believe in the person who lies.  Some people say,  “well, why don’t we just forgive the liar and move forward?”.   I’ll tell you why.   Forgiveness can be stretched to the limits and its a word that is frequently over used.  Forgiving someone may make YOU feel better,  but if the person who causes damage beyond repair continues to lie and they feel no remorse…how does forgiveness help?  To forgive someone for wrongdoing who intentionally lies to cause pain and hurt causes others to become confused.  Forgiveness is only appropriate if the liar actually feels remorse for lying……acknowledges they have lied to cause another person pain and if they ask to be forgiven and truely regret their lies and the pain they’ve caused.  Failure to forgive appropriately can make a situation become much worse.
There is also a difference between condoning and forgiveness.  Some people condone the liars behaviour by ignoring it and allowing it to continue.  If someone has lied about you or has caused you pain by lying,  it is completely appropriate to speak out about what the liar has done.  Ignoring a liar is basically condoning the liars’ behaviour.  The religious call to forgiveness is not a call to being a sucker.  If someone has lied about you or to you,  it is appropriate that you not pretend it didn’t happen or that it doesn’t matter because lying does matter.  It matters to everyone involved with the liar and those who are suckered into the lie by affiliation. 
Is it easy for a liar to stop lying?  Well,  that depends.  A habitual liar has difficulty in putting a stop to lying just as an alcoholic has difficulty saying no to a drink.  A compulsive, habitual liar needs help if they are to completely stop living their life through lies.   There are differant types of liars:
Braggarts; Compulsive liars; exaggerators; habitual liars and bull throwers.  The habitual liar is the most difficult of them all with the rest of the other types being a tiresome lot.  It seems the bigger the role model,  the worse a lie becomes.  It wouldn’t be so bad if lets say someone I didn’t know told a lie about me.   It is much worse to have a sister lie about me and its even worse than that when the sister is estranged because they are dysfunctional and live their lives  through hateful lying and outright deceitfulness and directly hurting others through deceitfulness.  If more people would raise the bar,  it would help restore truthful behaviour.  Every time we hear someone lying,  we should call them out as liars and not condone the behaviour by ignoring it or by accepting them as a liar.  We are far better off without liars than to live our lives with a liar.  There are two types of people:  The liars and the lie catchers.   I chose to be the lie catcher because I live my life in truth.  I have no fear about what I say because I speak the truth and know my story as factual.  Liars on the otherhand have extreme difficulty living a quality life because their life is void of truth.  Mark Twain once wrote, “Everybody lies…every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy and in his mourning.” This was written in 1882 in his essay,  “On the decay of the art of lying”.
Many times a person will lie and not even know it.  When someone asks you “how are you doing?” and you answer “I’m great” when in fact,  you are feeling unwell or not doing well,  you’ve just told a lie.  But these types of lies are not harmful.  They are in fact,  the type of lies that are near involuntary and done without even thinking  and helps keep the fabric of our society from unraveling.  But if someone lies and says that you’ve done a horrible thing when in fact,  you’ve done nothing…….this is an outright lie that was done with malice and the liar has done this with malicious intent to cause harm.  We always tell our children that honesty is the best policy but if the parent is always telling lies,  how can they possibly be a good role model?  Here are my estranged sisters,  supposed role models  peddling lies big and small……exaggerating, beefing up a boring story by embellishing events that never happened…..misleading people that they know as well as those they don’t know.  Perhaps their parents gave them conflicting messages as they were growing up……either way,  they’ve turned into very deceptive adults hoping their lies will provide them with a “reward”.  In my estranged sisters’ case,  their reward is gaining my mother’s assets, property and small income since my mother no longer has the ability to realize their depths of deception, due to her diminished capacity from dementia.  My mother has never been a wealthy woman.  She was a hard worker who was smart with her income.  It’s quite sad to know that the very people she thought she could trust have robbed her of not just her personal belongings,  but of her dignity,  her peace of mind and are causing her great stress through their deception.  The worse part is that these people feel no remorse and knowingly deceive her so that they can gain the “rewards” they feel they are entitled to.
Psychologist Paul Ekman says that people lie to avoid punishment, to get a reward, to enhance egos and to control information.  They lie to remove themselves from an awkward social situation.  There are so many reasons why people lie.  So many reasons we wonder how to  drill our way and cut through the molten core of truth?
It’s quite simple really.  By practice and training on a daily basis to tell nothing but the truth.  When it comes to lies,  Paul Ekman is the man.  He wrote the book,  “Telling lies” in 1985.  He tested the lie detection ability on over 12,000 people and found that the average person can detect a lie 54 percent of the time.  This is hardly an acceptable rate.  A person can actually do much better at detecting a lie if taught to detect micro-expressions.  What is a micro-expression?  This is a flash of emotion that quickly flashes across someone’s face, which is either a  suppressed or repressed emotion.   The truth is often tucked discreetly under a quilt of cheerful lies.
In order to detect concealed  emotions,  you must not trust your impressions.  Paul Ekman says that if you do this,  you’ll be wrong the majority of the time through stereotype.   It is quite difficult to judge a person by demeanor.  One of the easiest ways to see beyond impressions is to learn to catch micro-expressions, which betray emotions.  Mark Twain wrote in his essay, “If a man keeps his tongue still… his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception…and purposely.”
Some people don’t seem to want to know the truth.  Getting away with lies seems to be easier to do these days.  More people are interested in deceptive tales rather than boring truth.  There’s alot of double talk now that our world is more electronic.  If a person is really interested in knowing the truth,  all you have to do is follow the liars’  trail of deception.  They will blatantly contradict themselves and their stories will often times change.  Choosing to lie is a serious gamble of integrity.  But you have to remember that a compulsive or habitual liar has no integrity.  They have no remorse.  They live a life shut off from their true feelings because becoming too close to their true feelings would bring about all the pain they have hidden deep down inside.  The lies are packed neatly on top of the truth and the truth is sometimes too great for the liars to bare.
The bottom line is that there is a big cost at living a life full of lies and deception.  People will refuse to trust in you and people will stop believing in you.  The person hurt the most is the liar because living a life full of lies is detrimental to the well being of the liar and to those who unknowingly allow the liar to continue to lie.  I for one will no longer sit back and allow my estranged sisters to lie about me as a person or as a business.   They can create fictitious stories and continue to build their web of lies,  but the end result is they are only hurting themselves.  My life is driven in truth.  Their lives are driven by deception and untruthfulness.  They continue to lie to not just others but to my mother so that they can  obtain the small “reward” they feel they are entitled to.  What a very sad, lonely life to live.  Everyone knows what it takes to lie,  but very few know what it takes to re-establish trust.  You can’t like someone, live with someone or care about someone you can’t trust.  Liars are very untrustworthy people.

Dee Gerrish
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As a nonprofit humanitarian organization, Fundacion Niñez Internacional strives to help children around the world overcome the burdens of poverty to become healthy, educated, self-sustaining and contributing members of society. This goal is achieved primarily through child sponsorship, which unites children in need with individual sponsors who wish to address the childrens immediate and basic needs, and gives them the tools and opportunities necessary for success. In addition to sponsorship, Fundacion Niñez Internacional works to further improve the living conditions of children and families living in poverty. Through projects such as latrine building, clean-water initiatives and income-generation programs, we help families live healthier and happier lives. Fundacion Niñez Internacional is always looking for volunteers to assist the doctors and dentist and make a difference in the childrens’ lives that they work with. Because C.I. only accepts as many children as there are sponsors, the center is well funded, but is still in great need of volunteers, providing their time! Volunteers must be of age 18 or above with minimum education of high school.

Volunteers with the following special skills are preferred for the placement:- Doctor Nurse Medical Student Pre-Med Student Emergency Medical Technician Standard First-Aid Health & Hygiene Training HIV/AIDS Awareness Training Medical Administration Public Health Physiotherapy Child & Youth Worker Early Childhood Education At-Risk Youth Work Leadership Programming Social Worker (BSW) Social Work Student Psychologist Psychology Student Report Writing / Data Collection General Administration Educational Games Sexual & Reproductive Health Training Natural Medicine Social Worker (MSW)

Volunteers can assist by doing following tasks:- Volunteers at the Medical/Dental clinics are asked to assist the doctors and dentists in their routine check-ups and tasks. Volunteers usually spend at least half of the day working side-by-side with the doctors, weighing patients, doing eye exams, helping to administer medicine and be a support for the children and their families that come to the centers. The other half of the day is often spent helping to archive patient information, and to prepare patient folders and information for the coming day. Volunteers at this clinic receive excellent practical experience in how a well managed clinic is run, are able to see the daily tasks and the energy involved in administering such a medical center, as well as interact with people who would otherwise never recieve these kinds of services. Volunteers at the medical clinic in the past have helped with English classes after the doctors are finished for the day (2:30pm) and volunteers are also welcome to help out with sexual education workshops for young people on the weekends (often seen as a taboo subject here).

Basecamp International welcomes all the interested volunteers from around the world to volunteer and make a difference. If you are interested in this placement then please contact us for the details: Email: info@basecampcenters.com Website: www.basecampcenters.com Mailing Address 298 Bagot Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7K 3B4 Phone: 613.541.7862 Toll Free : 866.646.4693 Fax: 613.541.1604

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