Today we moved in with a Bolivian family, consisting of Jorge, Lumen and their two daughters, and will tomorrow be starting our volunteering at the Fox Academy in central Sucre.
The academy (aka Instituto Fox) was set up by the Fox family in 1982 with the aim of helping underpriviledged Bolivian children and adults to improve their English, thus also improving their employment prospects. In later years, the organisation was expanded to teach Spanish to visiting foreigners, thereby subsidising the English teaching by 50%. Rob and I will therefore be contributing by paying for morning Spanish lessons and then volunteering to teach English in the afternoons.
The academy (aka Instituto Fox) was set up by the Fox family in 1982 with the aim of helping underpriviledged Bolivian children and adults to improve their English, thus also improving their employment prospects. In later years, the organisation was expanded to teach Spanish to visiting foreigners, thereby subsidising the English teaching by 50%. Rob and I will therefore be contributing by paying for morning Spanish lessons and then volunteering to teach English in the afternoons.
After a warm welcome this morning from the family we´re staying with, we met with Consuelo, the director of the academy. It was great to finally put a face to the name with whom I´d swapped many emails over the past few months! She explained that at first we´ll be working alongside one of their paid teachers and then taking over ourselves in order to allow the teacher to get on with lesson planning and marking. We will be working with 15 eight-thirteen year-olds, and are both really looking forward to getting back into the swing of things after our Christmas and New Year ´holiday´(and of course Rob has already identified a running route in order to burn off all those salteñas...). So, let the classes begin!
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