volunteer opportunities
Volunteers are critical to the success of every entreamigos project or program.
If you are living in San Pancho or just visiting for a few days, please consider joining us!
Volunteers needed in the LIBRARY 
DATE: MONDAY-FRIDAY 2-6pm, SATURDAY 10-2pm
ACTIVITIES: Reading circle, homework help, book organizing and sorting (especially the English section), general organizational help and occasional special projects. You can choose the area that you are most interested in.
REQUIREMENTS: No spanish necessary although you will learn quickly. We ask for a 1 day a week minimum commitment or advance notice for “one time” or occasional volunteer help.
BENEFITS FOR YOU: Forget all those spanish classes and boring grammar books… we’ll have you fluent and street savvy in just a few weeks!
CONSTRUCTION/MAINTENANCE volunteers needed
DATE: as your schedule allows although we are working to establish Saturday/Sunday work teams - once a month.
ACTIVITIES: Library maintenance and special projects at the public schools. Mostly shelf building, light electrical, painting, planting and simple installation jobs. We will be building new computer desks for the public school and working on classroom improvement projects.
REQUIREMENTS: General handyman knowledge or the willingness to pick up a paintbrush. Tools are always appreciated but entreamigos has most basic construction tools available.
BENEFITS FOR YOU: Help fulfill critical needs in San Pancho schools, meet local residents in joint work projects, build strong”er” muscles and gets some exercise! The girls at entreamigos will dote on you and regularly say things like “hero” while in your presence.
entreamigos STORE volunteers needed!
DATE: Monday - Saturday 10-2 or 2-6. all shifts available. Sunday 11-3pm.
ACTIVITIES: We need ENGLISH SPEAKING help. No experience necessary. You can use the computer and internet while you are working! We are looking for people who are able to share information about entreamigos and the work that we do, while handling simple sales transactions.
REQUIREMENTS: Honesty, punctuality and friendliness. Simple math skills… although we have plenty of calculators!
BENEFITS FOR YOU: Meet many new people, share in the busy, productive energy of entreamigos, learn about the diverse artist community of San Pancho, practice your spanish (a little bit), help make a difference for children and families in San Pancho …and surf the web to your heart’s content!
WORKSHOP LEADERS/ENGLISH TEACHERS volunteers needed
DATE: Afternoons, flexible
ACTIVITIES/REQUIREMENTS: Share your unique skills with the children or women of San Pancho. We need english teachers of all skill levels…or without skills but with lots of patience. We need art workshop leaders for children and adults, and we are always looking for diverse short term workshop leaders… anyone ride a unicycle? Some spanish is certainly helpful.
BENEFITS FOR YOU: You will be the light, the one, the most amazing awe inspiring teacher to the masses… what could be any better?
COOKS AND BAKERS
DATE: Wednesdays at 10:15 and every other Thursday at 5pm.
ACTIVITIES/REQUIREMENTS: The ability to make a food type dish once a week or once a month. Wednesday is “lunch” at the elementary school with the teachers (10 people). Thursday is entreamigos staff meeting and we like sweet, fattening and mostly chocolatey goodies!
BENEFITS TO YOU: Well… technically you are providing the ENERGY that propels all of the people that work to improve the education of children in San Pancho… talk about inspired cooking!
and most importantly…
VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR needed to help organize all of the amazing people that choose to help entreamigos improve education in San Pancho. You need to be friendly, organized and have access to a phone line and/or the internet. We (as in entreamigos and the children of San Pancho) will be eternally grateful!
