Please read carefully before completing your application
1. The fee required of 2012 teachers and student assistants is as follows:
New volunteers $400
Returning volunteers $300
New volunteers for Lithuania camp $300
Returning volunteers for Lithuania camp $225
This fee is required with your application form. If you are not accepted as a participant, the fee will be returned. An application form and health form should be returned at your earliest convenience.
2. We will notify you of your acceptance for the teaching program after your completed application is reviewed and references are received. We ask that our teachers be qualified and experienced. Elementary, secondary and college teachers are most welcome. Those with other experiences and training are also encouraged to apply. Knowledge of the foreign language is not necessary.
3. You will also be responsible for your airfare to and from the host country airport where we will be picked up by camp personnel. The WIESCO-designated travel agency will contact you directly about airline reservations. We strongly encourage you to travel with the group because we have found, from past experience, that we’re all more likely to arrive at the same place at the same time if we travel together. If you do choose to make your own travel plans, you are responsible for arriving in the host country in time to meet your camp colleagues who will be arriving in a group. Of course, you will need to send us a detailed itinerary of your travel plans. We anticipate that the airfare arranged through our travel agent will be between $1500 and $2100.
4. While at the camp, room and board are provided. The camp will also provide weekend excursions for us. Please be aware that you may be responsible for part, or all, of the after-camp excursion, if you choose to participate in it. This excursion is typically a three or four day trip to interesting sites or to the capital city of the country. Additionally most teachers spend some money before camp, getting their materials ready for working at the camp.
5. Participants should be in good health. The travel at times can be exhausting and one needs to be prepared for it. Please make sure to have comfortable shoes for walking, as you will do much more walking than is customary in the United States.
6. Passports are the responsibility of the participant and the passport must be valid six months beyond your date of return from the foreign country. For travel to Poland, Lithuania, Macedonia and Latvia a VISA is not required for United States citizens. A VISA is required for travel to Brazil. Inoculations may be necessary for travel to these countries, so please check with your medical center.
7. After the three-week teaching program the Polish authorities sponsor a short trip in Poland that ends in Warsaw for which they provide the room and board. In Latvia a short trip will be organized for three days in Riga or Vilnius. In Lithuania there will be a local excursion and a trip to Riga. In Macedonia, the excursion will be into neighboring mountain towns and the capital city of Skopje. You may be responsible for part, or all, of the after-camp excursion if you choose to participate in it.
8. An orientation meeting will be held in the Spring of 2012; the date will be set later. This day-long meeting will acquaint the teachers and students with the program. Attendance at this meeting is required and is very important for the success of the program. We will try to arrange a location that will be central for the participants and the meeting will begin about 10:00 a.m. and last throughout the day. The meeting for the group going to Brazil will be in December 2011.
9. Make sure to check your health insurance policy concerning coverage while on foreign travel. Should a need for medical treatment arise you will need to provide cash payment at the time of treatment and then be reimbursed by your insurance carrier.
10. Payment for the airfare is due at a date set by the travel agent.