Description:
Purpose: To support Puente’s Health Educators in various aspects of their work in rural villages.
Location: Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, and surrounding villages
Time Commitment: Minimum three months. 30 hours per week. Some overnight trips.
Level of Spanish needed: Intermediate-High
Level of English needed: Basic
Skills/ Qualifications:
- Basic knowledge of rural communities and/or Latin American culture
- Interest in public health
- Experience providing constructive feedback in a professional or academic setting
- Outgoing, friendly personality
- Volunteers in this position must be responsible and dependable.
Responsibilities:
Puente’s Health Educators visit two to five villages per week, where they employ various techniques to diffuse information about amaranth, its production, and regular consumption. Promotion techniques are based on participative, adult-appropriate learning tools, marketing tools, and community diagnostics.
This volunteer will accompany Puente’s Health Educators to rural communities, observe amaranth promotion techniques, provide auxiliary support to the Health Educator as needed, and give concrete feedback and new ideas to the staff. Additionally, this volunteer will have a checklist and will assist the Health Educator in the completion of tasks.
