Get a Job Teaching Bridge to Children in Foreign Countries and Get Paid to Travel


 

Are these words in your vocabulary: Opening bid, call, contract, rubber, trick, book, pass, trump and dummy? You may qualify to get a stipend to teach Bridge at home or internationally.

How can I get a job teaching Bridge?

In many places around the world, the World Bridge Federation is promoting Bridge by offering stipends to instructors willing to teach Bridge to children.

As the popularity of the game of Bridge has waned since its heyday in the1930s and 1940s, the IBF has a goal to bring another generation into the fold with the intent of keeping the game alive.

How much will I get paid to teach Bridge?

The World Bridge Federation offers stipends in three-month increments. Check the World Bridge Federation website to find the amount of the stipend. Depending on the economy of the country in which you would be working, the stipend may or may not be enough to support you in the foreign country or at home.

How does the teaching Bridge program work?

Remember that the purpose of the program is to teach bridge to children, so this is how it works in Oaxaca. A group of children gather round a table at a charity called Esperanza Infantil. This charity supports the education of children whose parents mostly sell goods in the Zocalo.

The charity's main focus is feeding, clothing, and helping with schoolwork but they encourage volunteers to come up with new ways to educate children.

Since Bridge is extremely popular in the Oaxaca expat community, one of the expats secured a stipend for teaching Bridge.

In this case, a local person does the majority of the teaching because fluent Spanish is needed. Volunteers work as helpers.

However, if you are fluent in a language, you may be able to secure the stipend for yourself. Wouldn't this be a wonderful way to travel? You become a Bridge ambassador bringing education to the youth and at the same time, supplement your travel and involve your self in the local community.

What is the format for teaching Bridge in Mexico?

Bridge requires a group of 4 so we usually have two to three tables. The children receive their instruction, play games and once in a while we'll have a tournament. 

Adults, usually expats, sit in when needed to fill the table. This provides an added bonus of the children learning English at the same time as learning Bridge.

Are interested in the game of Bridge? Contact the World Bridge Federation if you are interested in teaching Bridge in your own community or throughout the world.

Read our blogpost about the charity Centro de Esperanza Infantile to see how teaching bridge operates at a charity in Oaxaca, Mexico

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