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Home > Get Involved > Serve to Learn
Touch a child’s life in a unique way by teaching English in Egypt through Coptic Orphans.
Serve to Learn 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008 – Sunday, July 20, 2008
Serve to Learn 2008 Application
Are you STL Alumni? Click here for your application.
Please use this time to start preparing. Here are some suggestions:
* Start spiritually preparing and praying for the service;
* Look into how much vacation time you have at work;
* Make sure your passport is valid;
* Research procedures for obtaining a visa for Egypt;
* Research the cost of the airline tickets;
* Start saving for the airline ticket and the program fees;
* Start looking for individuals and companies to sponsor the costs of the trip.
Serve to Learn is a unique opportunity that allows volunteers to serve in high-poverty areas of Egypt by volunteering to teach a dynamic English summer course to children. Volunteers come not only to teach the children English (and have fun doing it), but also that the volunteers themselves will learn even more from the children they serve. As one volunteer from the 2003 program so aptly put it, “we went to teach, but in the end, it was we who learned.”
The typical day for a Serve to Learn volunteer begins with a morning session devoted to English classes for orphans that are in the Coptic Orphans’ Not Alone program. The afternoon session offers classes for all other interested children in the community. In the evening, volunteers visit the homes of orphaned children to develop closer relationships with them and to gain a fuller understanding of the poverty in which so many children in Egypt live.
The volunteers are asked to think creatively about how to teach English to the children. Their purpose is to nurture a more positive learning environment for the children and inspire a love of learning within them. This is an opportunity not only for Egyptian children, who start learning English from the first grade, to learn English from a native speaker, but to have an enjoyable classroom experience that they do not always have during the academic year.
Serve to Learn volunteers will be prepared prior to their arrival to Egypt through a series of preparation assignments that cover cross-cultural understanding, teaching English as a foreign language, classroom management, education in Egypt, and other relevant topics. Volunteers will also receive a one-day orientation in Cairo before beginning their work.
What to expect as a volunteer
Why you should volunteer
Applicant FAQ
Serve to Learn Yearbook
Read the adventures of the volunteers
Still have questions? Contact us
Still want to do more?
If you would like to volunteer in our Falls Church , VA office or our Cairo , Egypt office, please send an email with you C.V. or resume, and a cover letter with your areas of interest and your availability to volunteer@copticorphans.org .
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