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Assignments

Viatores Christi expects all our trainees to undergo garda vetting.  Viatores Christi is a signatory to Comhlamh's Code of Good Practice. 

Whilst Viatores Christi endeavours to find an assignment to suit you, here are some of the requests for personnel we currently have:

 

MEDICAL:

Tanzania

Nurse desperately needed for a very poor area about one hour from Shinyanga town. 

 

Peru

Set up by an Irish man, the charity based in a shanty town outside Lima, has raised funds to build community dining rooms, small starter homes, a therapy centre and provides medication for sick and disabled children who could not otherwise attend school.  They currently need an administrator / social worker who has a good knowledge of Spanish to help develop the services in the Therapy Centre. 

Haiti (the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere)

-  An established hospital in Milot, Haiti, has a need for a medical personnel.

Also, at another of our mission partner sites, there is an on-going need for childcare support staff in an orphanage. 

Nigeria

- Carpenter required to teach in a training school in Oyo state. 

South Africa

One of our mission partners in South Africa who work in the areas of education, day care and nutrition of children (including AIDS orphans), identifying families with particular needs as a result of HIV/AIDS, promoting AIDS prevention, promoting adult literacy and skills development have various needs for volunteers in 2009:

(1)  Working with families and children orphaned due to AIDS.  While a social work qualification would be helpful, a person with experience of working with children, their own or in a play group or other setting could contribute to the project. 

A volunteer will help the local workers with running various groups and an After School Club for orphan children ages 1 to 18.  Many of these children have great ability and have developed confidence from helping to run the club.  Working as part of a team. 

(2)  A RE Co-ordinator

(3)  Manager and developer of Nutrition Centre.  Would suit a person who works well with children, has initiative, enjoys creativity (using local resources - gardening, needlework, crafts in an afterschool club) and who likes to work as part of a team.

(4)  Financial assistant: In an AIDS outreach project and also a creche and adult literacy project, this role would involve drawing up records and reports for funders etc, training a local person in the same and in basic accounting, setting up suitable structures for succession and with management to identify a successor.

A number of our members have already worked for this organisation.  Due to the AIDS pandemic, needs are many and great.

Ethiopia:

A Project Manager, required for a project that assists the poor especially those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and the poor women to help themselves, to live life as fully as possible.  This role has a lot of scope including offering support in coming to terms with the reality of living with AIDS.  Desirable skills include computer literacy and managerial experience (optional). 

Also

Peru

- opportunities to work in existing teams in Peru:

professionals in mental health care,

intellectual disability, physiotherapists, occupational therapist, speech therapists,

teachers in conductive education, teachers/therapists of movement- dance

Teachers:

El Salvador

In a lovely region in (rural) El Salvador, working with the poorest children.  Good English teaching important.  Would suit somebody who would appreciate living with a religious community.  Two Viatores Christi volunteers currently working in this region.  Spanish necessary.  Its possible to also spend a few weeks in language school in nearby Guatemala, if your Spanish needs improvement.

Tanzania

In the Tanga region:

Computer Science teacher, required, asap. 

For January 2010, a science teacher with emphasis on physics and chemistry.

For January 2010, a computer and and English teacher

Brazil

To be part of a small missionary team.  Both Brazilian and Irish living and working in a very poor area of the semi-desert region of North Eastern Brazil: trained teachers are needed to help the volunteers (local) who run a Homework Club helping with basic literacy and numeracy.  Help is needed to make this work more stimulating and appealing to the children.  A very important service as the children have very poor schooling and a basic existence.  They need individual attention which they can never get in school.

                                    

St Vincent (West Indies)

- looking for teachers in Biology, Chemistry and IT, in September 2009.

Nigeria

- teachers of Maths, Science and English required for a junior secondary school,

  Nigeria.  Would suit a graduate or trained teacher.  Additional interests including

 sport, gardening etc welcome.

Peru

- teachers of English (children, youth and adults), art, instrumental music.

Sierra Leone

- two primary teachers required for a very rural/remote area in Sierra Leone.
As education very weak so training of teachers also involved.
Would have support and benefit of being in a community where there is a high    level of interest in learning (among the staff) and a welcome for missionaries. Very humid in May and June.  Lot of scope, including developing sport, a library and drama.

 

Other:

Peru

- community workers, youth workers, promoters of women's rights, catechists and

  other trained parish ministries

Bolivia

- various professions / trades and skills required for an organisation that works with street children - both skilled and unskilled personnel welcome

 

 

Please contact info@viatoreschristi.com for more information on any of the above.