A Broader View - Chile

Basic Information

Address: 236 Glen Place Elkins Park, Pa 19027

Phone Number: 1-215-780-1845

Fax Number: 1-215-887-0915

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Email: volunteers@abroaderview.org

Director: Sarah & Oliver Ehlers

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Additional Information

Causes Served: Orphanage Children

Clearances Required: No

Background Check: No

Population Served: Orphanage Children

Ages for Volunteer: 17 to 85 y/o

Hours of Service: 20 or 40 a week

Minimum Hours of Service Required: 20 a week

Days of Service: Monday to Friday

Languages: English / Spanish

Languages used as a Medium: Spanish

Experience Required:

Nowadays the Kindergarten and nursery receives 138 underage children, 42 toddlers and 96 children between 2 years and 3 years 11 months who live in the community of La Serena y Coquimbo. One of the main characteristic of this project is the incorporation of the families and the community to the educational work. The parents of the children are so poor that they cannot afford to keep their children healthy or well fed. The projects serve as a day care, kindergarten and support center. Volunteers assist the local staff with the basic needs such as feeding, bathing and clothing, putting them down for naps and changing diapers.

They also assist the staff with instructional activities and play with the children on the playground. Proficiency in Spanish is necessary to interact with the staff, as well as be useful to the children. Come with a positive and flexible attitude and be eager to jump in where needed.

Programs Open To: Everyone that has time and want sto help orphans 138 underage children, 42 toddlers and 96 children between 2 years and 3 years 11 months

Travel Arrangements:

Volunteer buy the arifare, we meet you at the local airport with our coordinator

Participants Work: Orphanage Assistance

Application Process:

Follow the steps from this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n__z-_wbMVE

Visa Requirements:

No Visa requirement

Program Highlights:

Mission Statement:

A Broader View Volunteer's mission is to provide developing countries around the world with significant volunteer programs that both aid the neediest communities and forge a lasting bond between those volunteering and those they have helped. A Broader View is a nonprofit organization with no religious affiliations.

Why? We believe that the best way to learn about cultural differences is to experience it first-hand. Volunteering to do meaningful work is not only beneficial to the community, it is self-rewarding. Returnees usually state that their lives have been changed forever.

Our Goals: We hope to enlighten and educate the minds of those who choose to make that journey of caring to a different culture so unlike their own. Volunteering in foreign countries helps promote communication and trust between nations, and provides everyone involved an opportunity to expand their global horizons.

ABV Impact: ABV has been sending volunteers abroad since 2007. In that time, we have sent over 5,000 volunteers to 195 programs in 22 countries. Many of these volunteers have assisted in the care and education of over 8,000 orphans. Some have served in the medical and dental arena. Numerous children and students have been instructed by ABV teaching volunteers. Many others have aided in the rescue of sea turtle and the conservation efforts in the Amazon. And others have built schools, dorms, play grounds and fresh water wells. A Broader View raised and distributed over $1 million in donations We continue to be a part of the positive change within many communities around the world.

Philosophy/Belief Statement:

A Broader View Volunteers was founded by Sarah and Oliver Ehlers, after a trip to Chile, South America. While there, they saw the overwhelming need of the children and incredible difference volunteers made in helping a local orphanage. After returning home to the USA and researching different service organizations, they were stunned at how costly and restrictive many volunteering programs are. They decided to create an affordable, safe and worthy program so that anyone who wished to travel and volunteer - could easily afford to do so.

Oliver Ehlers was born and raised in Chile, South America. He holds a BA degree in Business Administration and Tourism. He has extensive experience in Business Development, Marketing and sat on the faculty of Economy & Business at the University of La Serena, Chile. He has traveled extensive throughout South and Central America, and spent time living abroad in Denmark and Spain.

Sarah Ehlers was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA USA. She holds a degree in Hospitality Management and Business. She worked eleven years in the area of travel management, focusing on coordinating international programs for the US market. She has traveled extensively throughout Central and Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Through their travels and backgrounds in Hospitality Management, Tourism, and Business, they have created an outstanding yet affordable program which offers the traveler the experience of their lifetime -- volunteering abroad and making a difference in the world.

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Additional Information:

Please email your inquiries to us at: volunteers[at]abroaderview.org

A Broader View Volunteers Corp

236 Glen Place
Elkins Park, PA 19027

Toll Free: (866) 423 3258

International Phone:

215 780 1845
215 253 4512
(020) 812 397 81
(02) 800 368 07

A Broader View office is open 10am-4pm (ET) Monday to Friday.