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Volunteer Testimonials from Brazil (Apply Here)
Here is a testimonial from Emily Roseler who volunteered with her 2 year old daughter (on our orphanage program)
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I will be coming back, for sure - thank you Alan ,Mirian and staff of Volunteer Brazil , so much for your hospitality.
Emily Roseler,
Dearest Friends,
I just wanted to say a massive thank you for everything that you have done for me since I have been here.
I have had the most life – changing experience here , not to mention a lot of fun ! I came here to volunteer but instead I have found my lifes plan. I am returning to the UK to train to work with disadvantaged chidlren in London – and its all thanks to you!
You have all inspired me more than I could ever describe – your attitudes , your kindness and your continous smiles. I hope that I will be able to take a little bit of you and “Tortura Nunca Mais” back home with me.
What you do is absolutely amazing! And I have been honoured to be a part of it.
I will miss you all like crazy.
Hugs and Kisses
xxxxxxxxx
Sam, London.
Volunteering in Brazil with you can only be described as a very rewarding and enriching experience.
Kerry Robinson (St Helier), Jersey, Channel Islands.
Volunteering on our Health Project in Brazil
Brazil is a brilliant country to volunteer in because everyone is just so accomodating even though our Portuguese didn´t stretch much beyond thankyou, a bit of flapping around, and many grins! Brazilian children are the easiest in the world to make friends with.
...the favelas don´t have a depressing atmosphere: music radiates from many and kids run from family to family giggling without a frown to be seen.
Georgina Worthington and Georgina Corbett-Burcher
Oxford, England.
Volunteering in an Orphanage
The boys really touched me and I would very much like to help them further by raising money for equipment and educational materials. I am currently undergoing training at a charity that helps the children of alcoholics, this will enable me to help take calls on their helpline, and hopefully give me a better insight into what the children in Brazil need in terms of support. I have several fundraising ideas, but would like some guidance from you as to how we can put everything into practice and the best way of ensuring that the money raised is used in a way that will most benefit the children.
Alison, Bristol, England.
¨Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you...I have just this minute got in through the door, when the phone rang, it was the headmaster from the school, offering me the postion....I am sure that it was my time volunteering in Brazil that swung it¨...
The above is an extract from an email we received from Samantha in London.
Samantha spent a couple of months with us , volunteering on one of our childrens projects. She had graduated the previous summer, and was so unsure of what to do with her life.
Her placement, decided her direction...
When she returned to ¨London Town¨ it was, all- systems-go; phone calls, letters, more phone calls, and even more letters. Anyway, to cut the chase, she secured a post as a teaching assistant in one of the toughest inner-city schools in London (yikes - good luck, Sam).
And in her own words ¨I am sure that it was my time volunteering in Brazil that swung it¨
Samantha, London.
Historical Preservation
On Monday morning I was brought to the Federal University of Pernambuco and introduced to the head archaeologist and shown around the School of Archaeology. I was informed I had a choice of projects, (grateful to know there was competition for my services)...
...and was met at the airport by staff from the volunteerbrazil organisation and was taken to my hotel. I was in touch with the volunteer hosts all during my stay, which was very reassuring.
Thanks to volunteerbrazil.com , the Project staff, the Federal University, the other volunteers, and most of all the Brazilian people.
Thanks, I will be back , soon.
John, Ireland.
I just recently got back to Los Angeles....all is well
here and i am writing to thank you for helping me have
such a wonderful experience. I keep thinking
of the boys at the orphanage...i really miss them!!
I would love to recommend the experience to anyone who
is interested in volunteering in Brazil through your programs.
I thank you again for all your help and for giving me
the opportunity to have such a wonderful experience.
Please keep in touch....
All the Best,
Sara Pironti,
Los Angeles.
I would like to say how fantastic the family you chose for her (Annabel, my daughter) have been and also what a
superb experience working in the orphanage has been for Annabel. Many thanks.
Yours, Hilary Clifford, London.
Volunteering With Youth
I just wanted to say thanks for your help and that I had a wonderful volunteering experience while in Brazil. The children at the center were amazing, as were Brazilians in general.
Danielle. California.
My three weeks volunteering at an orphanage were unforgettable. It was a challenge to work with so few material resources and with kids who had had such tumultous pasts.
But we learned to be creative in designing activities,
and to have patience and great respect for these girls and young women who had been through so much already in their lives (they made me put my own in perspective).
Not only did I come to love every one of them very much, but
they helped me better understand the situations of many more children in Brazil and all over the world.
Ann Erickson, California.
What fantastic kids, appearing to have nothing at first glance but laughed, smiled, sang and danced all the time and in my opinion had a richness in their life that we simply seem to have lost in the western world with our hectic lifestyles.
Adios meu amigos
Geraldine Mcelligott, Dublin.