Volunteer Stories

While volunteering with Project TEN in Mexico I noticed the reality is that kids raise their little siblings, kids do laundry and wash dishes and kids also move between strangers and stand in busy junctions begging for money. I could not help but wonder if the children who are supposed to arrive to our next …

Volunteering with Project TEN: A New View on Being a Child// Noy Gershoni, Project TEN Mexico 2021 Read More »

This week, our Teachers seminar was held at Project TEN Ghana. A seminar that aims to provide teachers in the schools we work with with tools for good communication with the child and optimizing the transfer of lessons, methods and knowledge. On the morning of the seminar, each teacher had a notebook and a pen …

Teacher Seminar in Ghana/ Hila, Project TEN Ghana volunteer, November 2021 Read More »

After last weeks succsess playing “rush hour” with the kids during thinking games space, we decided to make the game with them so they could play at home. In this game, each kid has an individual board made from recylced materials. The goal of the game is to move the cars so that the red …

Playing in Uganda// Joelle, Project TEN Uganda, 2021 Read More »

“While the rest of the group continued reading by themselves books from our library, I sat with a child for a one-on-one session and taught him the ABC. I did not have to work too hard, he listened to me with great interest and with endless attention. The child eagerly sipped every drop of knowledge …

Cheers For Reading/ Tamar Gafni, Volunteer Project TEN Ghana, 2021 Read More »

The language challenge was the thing that worried me the most when I got here. I have been involved in training and mentoring children of all ages my whole life. I wanted to use my tools of years of work while meeting the new community in Mexico for the first time! For the first few …

Volunteering with Project TEN Mexico: Beyond the Language Barrier!// Dana Levanon Read More »

“I arrived in Ghana in May and now towards the end of the trip, we are saying goodbye to the children. As part of volunteering we are in seven different schools, where the level of education of the children varies. On Tuesdays we came every week to the school from Nissipal, a government school. The …

Little Translators/ Dana, Project TEN Ghana Volunteer, 2021 Read More »

“Due to the Covid-19 pandemic there are new guidelines in Uganda. Schools and other institutions were closed this week for 42 days. We decided not to let the children of our community sit at home bored! We opened a “take away” service! We are distributing boxes with activities to the children’s homes in the neighborhood. …

Project TEN Take Out/ Madva, Project TEN Uganda, July 2021 Read More »

“During one of the walks to school on our first days of the project, a group of African boys walked towards us, and before we knew it, our director began to speak to them enthusiastically in Hebrew. We could not understand what was happening and couldn’t believe what we were hearing! This was the first …

Hearing Hebrew on the streets of Namulanda/ Tamar Gonen, Project TEN Volunteer Uganda, 2021 Read More »