To celebrate artwork that children and volunteers create together during ongoing art workshops, VE Global hosts an art festival twice a year, providing a supportive space to build children’s confidence and show off their creativity. Festival includes everything from paintings, poems and dance to singing. For this Festival de Arte on October 30th, we celebrated […]
Festival de Arte, VE Supporters
This month at Liga, the kids became experts in Field Hockey, thanks to a fun, active taller led by Señor Raúl and his young women’s field hockey team! Señor Raul and his league of players ran drills and explained field hockey basics before dividing everyone up into 3 groups to play on teams against one another. […]
Liga de Deportes
By Violeta Parilli, VE Volunteer, September 2012 Este mes en VE Global nos hemos estado preparando para nuestro Festival de Arte que tendrá como tema Halloween, o como aprendimos hace poco, Día de Todos los Santos o Muertos. La mayoría de las personas piensan que Halloween es una festividad americana, sin embargo en los países […]
Anakena, Festival de Arte
By Sanya Bischoff VE Volunteer from Frankfurt, Germany Read the original post in German, or click here for the English translation. Wenn ich einen Arbeitstag mit nur einem Wort beschreiben wollte würde ich „kunterbunt“ sagen, denn man wird immer von neuem überrascht. Ich bin mit den Kleinsten von fünf bis sieben in „Grupo 1“ und […]
Mi Club Domingo Savio
This month at Liga, the kids learned how beneficial dance can be for the body! Volunteer instructors came to teach the kids some Zumba-inspired aerobic dance, followed by snack of whole wheat pan con palta, kiwi, apples, and nuts. After snack, the kids had free time (which, in this case, meant fútbol and table tennis time). It was […]
Liga de Deportes
By Jacolien Kisteman VE Volunteer from Zwolle, Netherlands Read the original post in Dutch or click here for the English translation. Op het moment dat ik dit schrijf zit de eerste oriëntatie week bij VE Global er al weer op. Een week die voorbij is gevlogen. Een week die ontzettend gevarieerd, interessant en leuk was, […]
Orientation
American Tower has recently teamed up with VE in an effort to support Art and Technology! With their generous support, we will improve our Festival de Arte program with exciting new features like art kits for volunteers to take to their placements and a larger budget for use in exciting, creative workshops for the kids. […]
VE Supporters
By Jessica Wilcox VE Volunteer from Nebraska, USA I arrived in Santiago, Chile in September 2011. Having made the minimum four month commitment with VE, I planned to stay until the middle of January. When that date was approaching, I decided to stay until the end of February. And when February came and went, I […]
Extended Stay, Hogar Fundación Promesa
This month’s theme at Liga de Deportes was the Olympics! The kids learned all about the Olympic games and good sportsmanship and then took part in their own Olympic competition. Split into three groups, they competed in long jump, 25-meter sprint, and rythmic gymnastics. Then gold, silver, and bronze medals were handed out to each team […]
Liga de Deportes
Our September 2012 Volunteer class started their orientation this week! Hailing from Australia, Chile, Germany, the Netherlands, Venezuela and the United States, this amazing group is already impressing us with their insight and enthusiasm. After 10 days of orientation, with trainings from VE staff as well as Chilean social service professionals, our “newbies” will get […]
