In Senegal, French is taught from nursery school, while in the Gambia English is thaught from nursery school and other European languages, such as Spanish and German, are taught from secondary level. Given that tourism is one of most important industries in these countries, the Department for Education insists building relations with European countries through teaching English, Spanish and German etc as second languages. The children tend to admire your language skills and are generally keen to learn about your culture. Alongside teaching English, you can organise your own programme and teach other subjects such as IT, music, maths, drama and science.

The age of the pupils of the colleges and schools where our volunteers will teach is between 15 and 19 years. However, the possibility exists to give English or French lessons to children in the CEM2 class (last year of primary school) who are between 12 and 15 years old, and to the children of the neighbourhood where you are accomodated.

20 hours per week = 4 hours per day = 2 hours in each class (different levels).