Organized together with Green Volunteers for Green Future(GV4GF) since 2012 (2nd time in this place). GV4GF is a NGO newly founded to promote voluntary service, environmental protection and improve rural life. NICE's been co-organizing the projects to enable them to do by themselves from 2015! Anuradhapura is suffered by lack of facilities for students, health and transportation. More than 70% of the people are living here below the poverty level, living in the house made by clay without toilets.
Work:
We will do various types of work such as helping the villagers to plant seedlings and plants of their farm lands (Pani 1) and harvesting (Pani 2), working with local youth and organizing cultural exchange events for local community. We also aim to widen the recognition about the marginalized community.
Study Scheme:
Future plan of workcamps in Sri Lanka and global cooperation for it. Bring some info.!
Accommodation:
Village house or community center. Be ready to enjoy simple life. Cooked by volunteers. Sleeping bags needed!
Location:
Rural village another 21km from the nearest Anuradhapura, which is the most ancient kingdom (world heritage site) and a lot of ruins are still there including stone carvings, temples, shrines, parks & lakes.
Terminal:
Colombo (you need to arrive by the end of the day before the first day and can leave there after the midnight of the last day)
Leisure Activities:
Excursion, environmental education, farewell party, etc.
Special Remarks:
High motivation to work and respect to the local culture and way of the local organization!
Participation Fees:
230 US$ to be paid on your arrivals. One week participants (first 7 days) should pay 160 US$.
Organized together with Green Volunteers for Green Future(GV4GF) since 2012 (3rd time in this place). GV4GF is a NGO newly founded to promote voluntary service, environmental protection and improve rural life. NICE’s been co-organizing the projects to enable them to do by themselves from 2015! The local NGO has a model farm using organic manure, having 4 cattle and a bio gas unit. The project place is a dry and historic, yet less developed town, is in agriculture and livestock farming.
Work:
We will 1. work to establish organic farm, 2. assist the villagers’ farming of members of the local NGO, 3. help the families to make their clay pots and burn. and 4. organize cultural exchange events for local community. We can also learn the rural organic farming and techniques.
Study Scheme:
Future plan of workcamps in Sri Lanka and global cooperation for it. Bring some info.!
Accommodation:
Village house. Be ready to enjoy simple life. Cooked by volunteers. Sleeping bags needed!
Location:
Home to the Veddh (meaning people of the forest), descendants of the tribes inhabited thousands of years ago. 180 km from Colombo on the South East region of Matale, 14km from Mahiyanganaya city.
Terminal:
Colombo (you need to arrive by the end of Mar. 22nd and can leave there after the midnight of Apr. 4th)
Leisure Activities:
Excursion, environmental education, farewell party, etc.
Special Requests:
High motivation to work and respect to the local culture and way of the local organization!
Participation Fees:
230 US$ to be paid on your arrivals. One week participants (03/22-03/28) should pay 160 US$.
Organized together with Green Volunteers for Green Future(GV4GF) since 2012 (2nd time in this place). GV4GF is a NGO newly founded to promote voluntary service, environmental protection and improve rural life. NICE's been co-organizing the projects to enable them to do by themselves from 2015! Anuradhapura is suffered by lack of facilities for students, health and transportation. More than 70% of the people are living here below the poverty level, living in the house made by clay without toilets.
Work:
We will do various types of work such as helping the villagers to plant seedlings and plants of their farm lands (Pani 1) and harvesting (Pani 2), working with local youth and organizing cultural exchange events for local community. We also aim to widen the recognition about the marginalized community.
Study Scheme:
Future plan of workcamps in Sri Lanka and global cooperation for it. Bring some info.!
Accommodation:
Village house or community center. Be ready to enjoy simple life. Cooked by volunteers. Sleeping bags needed!
Location:
Rural village another 21km from the nearest Anuradhapura, which is the most ancient kingdom (world heritage site) and a lot of ruins are still there including stone carvings, temples, shrines, parks & lakes.
Terminal:
Colombo (you need to arrive by the end of the day before the first day and can leave there after the midnight of the last day)
Leisure Activities:
Excursion, environmental education, farewell party, etc.
Special Remarks:
High motivation to work and respect to the local culture and way of the local organization!
Participation Fees:
230 US$ to be paid on your arrivals. One week participants (first 7 days) should pay 160 US$.
Organized together with Green Volunteers for Green Future(GV4GF) since 2012 (4th time in this place). GV4GF is a NGO newly founded to promote voluntary service, environmental protection and improve rural life. NICE’s been co-organizing the projects to enable them to do by themselves from 2015! Local poor families after here collect special soil and make and sell clay pots. After that they make a difference kind of cooking items to cook vegetables and rice which is using firewood.
Work:
We will 1. prepare clay for make pots for cooking made by clay to be burnt with guidance of locals, 2. assist farming of the villagers and 3. organize cultural exchange events for local community. Local people also make clay lamps, little pots for curds, etc.
Study Scheme:
Future plan of workcamps in Sri Lanka and global cooperation for it. Bring some info.!
Accommodation:
Village house or Training Center. Be ready to enjoy simple life. Cooked by volunteers. Sleeping bags needed!
Location:
Home to the Veddh (meaning people of the forest), descendants of the tribes inhabited thousands of years ago. 180 km from Colombo on the South East region of Matale, 18 km from Mahiyanganaya city.
Terminal:
Colombo (you need to arrive by the end of Mar. 22nd and can leave there after the midnight of Apr. 4th)
Leisure Activities:
Excursion, environmental education, farewell party, etc.
Special Requests:
High motivation to work and respect to the local culture and way of the local organization!
Participation Fees:
230 US$ to be paid on your arrivals. One week participants (06/15-06/21) should pay 160 US$.
« I can say that the best things about the workcamp and this whole experience were the chance of making a real difference to the lives of very needy children. This is an extremely valuable project where volunteers can have a massive impact. Also the possibility of learning a huge amount about a country so different from our own. I learnt ten times as much by carrying out a workcamp than I would ever do backpacking. »
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