Nicole Vecchio Feb 20 - Mar 27/2010
Margo Buchanam Feb 20 - Mar 20/2010

The goals for volunteers at CAASAH is to provide love, support and attention to the children there as well as being a good role-model not being worried about if a project planned goes wrong. Once we arrived the children were in many different places of the home as opposed to be in a room all together. Half of the children also went to school. We brought in an art and crafts activity everyday. We also tried to teach manners (please and thanks). After two weeks we can better communicate and understand the children better. It is important if you spend some individual time with them since they are very different and also some have learning disabilities, some are deaf, etc. The language barrier was difficult but there are many ways to communicate like using gestures or having a portuguese dictionary (take advantage of CCS portuguese class).
Be patience and try not to get frustrated you need to be a self motivator at CAASAH just be yourself and the kids will love you.