Volunteer work
It is recommended a stay in the project of minimum 2 months in order to achieve the goals proposed and to ensure fluidity to the other projects.
The volunteers who come for a whole year, can take three weeks vacation separated by periods. The first can be done in the month of March , the second on the month of August and the third in the month of December . For the volunteers who come for a period lesst han a year and they want to take vacations, they should apply this requirement directly to the project coordinator.
The volunteer’s working schedule will be 6 days per week, from Monday to Saturday and 6 hours per day. The schedule is usually flexible.
The volunteers will have the chance to get involved in the social work. Working with disadvantaged children and youngsters, who run the risk of social exclusion because of poverty or because they come from broken families.
The volunteers can choose to work on:
 activities of leisure and good use of leisure time, with children and adolescents
give assistance to other volunteers and coordinators of the association
to stimulate and to mobilize the community in general and the youngsters in particular to take initiatives by organizing campaigns, raising awareness on the problems that affect the youngsters
to stimulate the involvement of local authorities through promotion and publicity of organizations and voluntary work
to contribute to the community development through education
promote volunteering among the youngsters in the community who don’t perceive yet the benefits of being a volunteer
Cultural & free time
Ventanilla is a small town with some shops, a bank and some internet cafes.
Ventanilla doesn’t have a rich cultural life. These kind of activities usually take place, in Lima or Callao. Pitifully in Ventanilla , you can not find places for healthy recreation like cinemas, theaters or other cultural spaces. To the West part is located a complex , Recreational "Balneario Blue Cost", with restaurants, a Castle of games for children, dance halls and sports clubs.
The environment though is quite pleasant: in the North and South are beaches and areas of natural and man-made lakes known as Wetlands of Ventanilla where you can see the flora and fauna of that place.
Learning activities
The organization conducts an orientation and induction meeting with the volunteer, the day after his/her arrival, welcomes the volunteer and gives him/her thanks for participating in our project, tells him/her which will be his/her obligations and tasks. It is named a guide to help the volunteers in the first days who will give information on the community, transport, currency, security, possibly dangerous areas warnings, and other important aspects.
Something really important that the volunteer should have in mind is the Spanish language knowledge. An intermediate level of Spanish is required as minimum. Without this level of Spanish as a tool to work within the community a volunteer cannot make a significant contribution to the projects because the people in the community only speak Spanish. If the volunteer is not at this level, Jóvenes de Buena Voluntad could help him/her to find the best program to improve his abilities in Spanish before the project starting.
People interested in making voluntary work in this community should be open to be part of the lifestyle and customs of people, their way of working, food and living conditions, that are precarious for its poverty level.
Accomodation & food
The participants to our international volunteering programme will have the opportunity to live for the entire duration of their stay with one of the community's families. These represent the majority of the town's families which contributes to their integration, participation and getting a better understanding of the social and economic reality and at the same time of certain behavior patterns of the Peruvian families in daily situations. The volunteer will be provided with a room and will have complete access to the bathroom shared by the family, shower, toilet, current running water.
The host family is responsible for providing food to the volunteer during his/her stay in the project. The volunteers will have to share some domestic responsibilities with the hosting family.
In Ventanilla they will not find Mc Donalds, Pizza Hut, Burger King but they can find restaurants with typical Peruvian food.
In county staff
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| Jose Luis Quiñones |
| EVS country manager |
| Jose Luis, founder and volunteer of Jovenes de Buena Voluntad , has a diploma in Business administration, occupies the charge of the general direction.
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The people working in the organization are all volunteers who organized themselves in a group that wanted to help the community. The organization has the headquarters in Ventanilla and works with volunteers from this community but also with volunteers from the neighboring cities like Lima and Callao.
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