CULTURAL CUBE PROGRAMMES AND SERVICES
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Due to the economic situation in Peru, Peruvian workers are often displaced by volunteer workers for lack of funding. Many non-profit organizations discontinue hiring their regular workers because it costs less to use volunteers. To avoid this, the project discourages giving volunteers work that can be done by paid local people. The volunteers for this project are “support” staff and are here to help as well as to learn.
"We believe that one way to further communication and understanding in our world is to learn about each other, in a deeper and more profound way."
Being a volunteer at this amazing project is one way to expand your horizons!
The Founder, Jesús Napancca, was born in Lima and grew up working throughout his childhood to help support his family with their living expenses. He managed to earn enough to study English, Japanese and mechanical engineering in Lima. He also completed a course to become a teacher of Spanish as a second language. In 1997 he moved to Cusco to teach Spanish to tourists. Since then he has become a highly successful and well respected teacher within Cusco’s tourist world.
As a Spanish teacher in Cusco, Jesús noticed that, because so many tourists visited Cusco, there was a need for an English speaking work force. He and a few of his fellow Peruvians spoke English well, many of the choice jobs in Cusco were taken by foreign expatriates. Whilst working with his students from all over the world, he realised that almost everyone had the same wish to help the poor working children they saw on the streets. Thus his idea of beginning a Spanish school for tourists blossomed. It was to be a school where the profits from the language courses would fund a programme for a number of the poorest of Cusco’s young people.
The aim of the Programme for the students is:
to provide a resource so that the young people could learn English for three years. This would possibly enable them to enter the University system or the work force.
to provide the young people with emotional support in order to develop self esteem.
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