WorldTeach Bulgaria volunteers will spend the summer in urban and rural areas, teaching teenage and younger orphans English, computer literacy, and practical life skills through interactive approaches stimulating students' creativity and personal development.

Volunteers can either teach at local foster homes or participate in the STEP Bulgaria program (Summer Teaching English Program in Bulgaria) which brings together about 40 teenagers from five different orphanages across the country. STEP Bulgaria focuses on developing students' language, technical and practical life skills to facilitate their integration into society once they leave their state institutions.  In addition to interacting with their students on a daily basis, WorldTeach volunteers will have the assistance of local Bulgarian university students and of high-school students also volunteering for the program.

The program will begin in mid to late June and last until mid to late August.

Volunteers must be fluent English speakers over the age of eighteen.  Knowledge of Bulgarian is not expected.  Undergraduate students are welcome. Prior teaching experience is helpful but not required.  Interest in working with underprivileged youth, teaching, community participation and development are musts, as are flexibility and patience.

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