CareGiving
For people with disabilities and the elderly living in Mexico, life remains a challenge. Abuse and neglect are common. Publicly funded institutions fall short of meeting all needs. Private institutions and NGOs provide care and support to make up for the lack of institutional oversight and funding. Volunteers aid these organizations by bringing energy, love and dedication to help local staff in local caregiving projects.
Volunteers in caregiving projects work in shelters and clinics for the elderly and/or for the physically and mentally disabled. Our programs make up for lack of staff to give individual support to the residents and patients. Volunteers assist local staff with daily activities invigorating residents’ and patients’ mental and physical health. Volunteers are welcome to bring their own workshops and creative ideas to the projects. Additionally, volunteers assist with feeding patients and helping with physical therapy, and most importantly, giving residents and patients the love and attention they need.
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Our Special Needs Project in Mérida welcomes volunteers with open arms. Volunteers work alongside local staff in a structured learning center and/or in residencies for adolescents and adults with physical and/or mental disabilities. Some residents are institutionalized because they have been abandoned by their families. The work with this project includes helping teachers with daily operations and classroom maintenance, going on outings with residents, or overseeing simple activities with small groups of students.
This home. Pastoral de Amor, is run by a religious order and volunteer work can involve assisting with fundraising efforts to benefit the residents. These residential sites are funded solely by donations.
Volunteers should come with open hearts, patience and creativity. They are invited to bring their own workshops for the residents - in music, dance, and art, for example. Volunteer Inn Merida hopes to assist limited institutional staff and personnel with assistance - from education and mental development - to physical therapy and creative arts. Volunteers support specialized attention residents need and often lack. Volunteer tasks include helping with daily operations, preparing food, serving meals and cleaning. Many residents require physical therapy that is given on-site and take classes in basic skills.