Administration is committed to:

• Facilitating and supporting
• Monitoring
• Evaluating
• Providing materials
• Providing continuity for the success of the volunteer program

Staff are committed to:

• Welcoming volunteers
• Informing them about their tasks
• Encouraging their initiatives and celebrating their efforts

Volunteers are committed to:

• Respecting school rules and procedures
• Performing assigned tasks to the best of their ability
• Working cooperatively with all staff and seeking clarification when necessary
• Share their ideas, insights, concerns  and ask questions.

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES / PROGRAMS

The following are areas for volunteer opportunities

• Classroom help
  • Tutoring
  • Training teachers
  • Reviewing work with students
  • Supporting sustainable  projects
  • Teaching an area of skill (art, music, speech, etc.)
  • Filing and paperwork
  • Decorating bulletin boards
  • Write and/or type dictated stories
  • Read stories
  • Assist with administrative task
  • Work with a group
  • Help a group move from one place to another
  • Play and/or teach games in classroom and play yard
  • Monitor students working on assignments
  • Assist class in library
  • Building and construction
  • Vocational training
  • Traditional art
  • Public health awareness (HIV/AIDS, malaria)
  • Environmental conservation and appropriate technology
  • Building and construction
  • Ethno-botany
  • Micro-credit/enterprises
  • Permaculture
  • Integrative health care
  • Clean water projects
  • Traditional medicine documentation
  • Natural medicine/homeopathy
  • Other:

• Supervision (recess or lunch times)
  • Assist at dismissal, lining up students.
  • Supervise students during lunch
  • Accompany group on field trips

• Working in Volunteer Room
  • Clerical Tasks
    • Typing as needed
    • Make phone calls for teachers
    • File materials
    • Put names of children on lists, materials, notes
    • Copy materials
    • Gather materials for projects
  • Work on projects left for parents, teachers, students and upcoming events.
    • teaching aides such as games and flashcards,
    • prepare materials such as cutting paper with the paper cutter,
    • maintain art supplies by washing paint brushes,
    • correcting papers,
    • trim laminated papers