A good organization!

I worked for La Esperanza Granada for two months and had a great time. I was a teacher´s assistant in one of the schools the organization is working in. That means I was in class with the teacher helping her with the kids, making them do their tasks and explain to them if they don´t understand. At La Esperanza, you can either be one of these teacher´s assistants or a part of the English team, that are having only English classes with classes in different schools.

I really like the work, but it´s also very frustrating sometimes when the kids don´t want to work and are just running around instead. It´s hard to see a progress, at least when you are here for only a few months, but our work is very important. Because there are very many kids in each class it´s hard for the teacher to pay attention to all children, and that´s why the work of the volunteers is important.

Usually you work 10 am - 3.15 pm Monday - Thursday/Friday and you have the weekend of. We have been travelling around a lot on the weekends. There are four volunteer houses of different size, and up to 15 persons in each house. You can either stay in a dorm with three more persons, or in private/double rooms. Although the houses are not very clean it´s been very nice staying here. They have a great atmosphere and it´s very nice living with the other volunteers. There is a lot going on in the spare time and Granada is a very nice place to live, it never gets boring.

Overall La Eseranza Granada is a very good organization, and I recommend you to work for them! I would recommend you to stay for at least two or three months, it takes some time to get into the work and it´s also better for the children with long term volunteers, to get to know them better and so that you can actually make a difference!