Support a Brazilian orphanage by learning Portuguese in Rio

This month, the Casa do Caminho Language Centre was officially opened in Rio de Janeiro.

What is the so special about this language centre? It’s been created and managed entirely by volunteers and all revenues go to the orphanage Casa do Caminho; only the teachers are being paid for their services. Foreigners can learn Portuguese and ‘Cariocas’ (as the inhabitants of Rio are called) can learn English or Spanish. The centre is located in Ipanema, one of the most safe and affluent areas of the city and only 3 blocks from the beach.

Casa do Caminho orphanages have existed for nearly 27 years and are located in Xérem, about an hours’ drive from the centre of Rio De Janeiro. Their mission is to shelter and protect children and adolescents from different family backgrounds and vulnerable situations, to give priority to their education and helping them prepare for re-integration into a family situation, to improve their employment potential and finally to develop projects promoting education, health, sports, culture and leisure pursuits.

If you going to Brazil or already there just traveling and have some time on your hands to pick up the language, do visit our website. It’s so much more fun to discover a culture when you can manage to talk with and understand the locals. We are by far the cheapest course for foreigners and we are different in the fact that all our profits go to the orphanage. Courses cost about 85 EUR or 110 USD per month or 4 EUR/ 5USD per hour.

For more information contact casadocaminho.languagecentre@gmail.com or visit the website at www.casadacaminho-languagecentre.org