Volunteers work on their project from Monday to Friday. Your days begin early, to eat breakfast with your host family before you meet up with the other volunteers (usually up to six per community) to catch the transport to the relevant project site, arriving to start classes by 9.00am. There is a break mid-morning for a fruit snack for the children, then classes continue to 12.00pm, when volunteers will eat with a local family in the community, plan lessons and relax. Classes then restart with new children at 2pm, with the fruit break mid-afternoon, to finish at around 4pm, when the volunteers all return to Antigua a little after 5pm.
Volunteers have the option to take their own class or assist other volunteers until they feel they could take their own class. It is hoped that a new volunteer will work with an experienced volunteer for 1-2 weeks, with the aim to take over that class once the experienced volunteer has left. Each class size can range from 5-20 children, depending on the collective ability or the attention needed by the children. Lessons range from basic literacy and numbers to educational reinforcement, help with homework and English, games, sports and other activities. Full records are kept of each child’s progress on a monthly basis, to facilitate the volunteer changeover and allow continuity of the child’s education process.
