What programs are Rostro de Cristo volunteers involved in?
Most Volunteers have two worksites – a morning and an afternoon placement. In the morning, volunteers work in many different places within the broader community as partners with Ecuadorian organizations. These positions are predominately in the fields of health care, education, and social work and have included day-care centers, HIV/AIDS education projects, outreach to street children, serving as a teacher or teacher’s aid, or working at a clinic or hospital, such as Padre Damien’s Hansen Hospital. In the afternoons, most volunteers run three different RdC after-school programs begun by RdC, and a few teach English as a second language in the Catholic school Nuevo Mundo. Participants have some flexibility in choosing where they work based on their skills and interests. and work placements are decided about two weeks after arrival in Duran through a process of community discernment, with the guidance of the in-country director. Usually each volunteer has two or three work placements.
