Projects in Colombia

Community Economic Development

The Community Economic Development (CED) project contributes to the growth of local and regional economies in Colombia through entrepreneurship, business advising, and personal money management.

Volunteers collaborate with teachers, governmental officials, business owners, women, and youth, to:

• Co-teach core livelihood skills at schools and in the community.
• Co-plan and co-implement entrepreneurship activities and events.
• Co-train entrepreneurs, youth, women, and business owners in basic business skills and personal money management skills through community courses.

Leveraging their own unique skills and interests, Volunteers may also work with local community members to organize youth leadership groups, teach information communication technology (ICT) practices applied to entrepreneurship and business management, facilitate environmental awareness workshops and school gardening projects, coach sports, teach English for business classes, or implement community-wide recycling projects.

Education

The Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) project supports teachers, students, and community members to develop the English communications skills necessary to access academic, professional and/or personal development opportunities.

Volunteers collaborate with local teachers and other counterparts to:

• Co-plan and co-teach high school English classes with Colombian teachers
• Guide teachers through informal English learning and conversation practice
• Organize and facilitate extracurricular English clubs, tutoring groups or other activities for students
• Facilitate workshops on English teaching strategies and technology in the classroom
• Promote the use of techniques for targeting all learners in the classroom
• Teach community English classes

English teaching can also be incorporated into many complementary and community-based activities, such as sports or arts, summer camps, environmental or health projects, technology, and more.