Ky Quang Pagoda is a charity organization where more than 200 children including newborns spend their lives. The children are not only orphaned but also disabled, having-AIDS or suffering from fatal diseases. With their golden hearts and nonstop contribution, 17 mothers and monks have been devoting their time and effort to the care of the children. They not only take care of and guide the disabled children to practice their body to be rehabilitated physically, but also give lessons including Braille for the blind children to help them know to read and write in order to integrate into the community normally. Ky Quang Pagoda has gradually turned into a full house where the disabled children, poor orphans or beggars to ask for joining.

Organize activities for the orphans who live in a pagoda, support the monks in feeding and taking care of the kids, especially disabled children. Sometimes we will help with small constructions at the pagoda.

Volunteers will stay in basic accommodation at the guesthouse. Western style bathrooms, wifi are available. Meals are provided at a local restaurant nearby the site.

Ky Quang pagoda, Ho Chi Minh city.

Tan Son Nhat international airport (SGN)

Public bus

Sleeping bag, info materials and pictures of your country, presents, toys and activities materials for the children if you have prepared any.

With a total of 326 children (155 girls), Nuoc Trong nursery school is supposed to be among the main kindergartens in Tan Hoi village. Operated by the workforce of 10 staff and 19 teachers, the kindergarten is still considered to be underdeveloped with the lack of necessary facilities. Indeed, the school is totally short of teaching tools and there are not enough toys to help the kids to develop their intelligence as well as social skills properly. Additionally, the majority of teachers are young and inexperienced, thus suffering a great deal of difficulties in teaching and nurturing the kids. Furthermore, a number of classrooms in the school are quite poorly decorated, which may make it much harder in stimulating the children’s spiritual awareness and growth.

Organize activities for the kids (teaching, singing, playing games...); do gardening (planting, picking-up grass, etc.); join in with repairing house or other manual works.

Volunteers will stay at the dormitory with basic conditions. Meals will be prepared by volunteers, or sometimes dine in the local restaurant nearby.

Tay Ninh, Ho Chi Minh city

Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN)

Public bus

Sleeping bag, raincoat, info materials and pictures of your country, presents, toys and activity materials for the children if you have prepared any.

Hai Duong welfare center was established in March 1982. With about 1000 mentally and physically disabled and disadvantaged children attending the center from many parts of Hai Duong province. The center aims to provide compulsory education and vocational training to create employment opportunities for teenagers. It has a wide variety of courses for children ranging from 6 years old to 18 years old. For example, children between the ages of 6 to 12 are provided with educational courses and the older children can attend vocational training courses at the center. The voluntary work at the center is quite intense and it requires high motivation and patience from volunteers, volunteers need to be well prepared before starting this project but will gain so much from the experience.

Work in classrooms where handicapped children come to study and have physical therapy. Do manual work with renovation (painting tree or wall). Help the staffs in the kitchen as they need to cook for a great deal of children.

Volunteers will sleep in the guesthouse nearby the center. Wifi, western style bathrooms are available. Meals will be prepared by volunteers within the center’s kitchen.

Welfare center, Hai Duong province

Noi Bai International Airport (HAN)

Public bus

Sleeping bag, raincoat, info materials and pictures of your country, presents, toys and activities materials for the children if you have prepared any.

Cat Ba is the largest of the 366 islands spanning 260km2 that comprise the Cat Ba Archipelago, which makes up the southeastern edge of Ha Long Bay in Northern Vietnam.

Cat Ba is the largest island in the Bay and approximately half of its area is covered by a National Park, which is home to the highly endangered Cat Ba Langur. The island has a wide variety of natural ecosystems, both marine and terrestrial, leading to incredibly high rates of biodiversity. Types of natural habitats found on Cat Ba Archipelago include limestone karsts, tropical limestone forests, coral reefs, mangrove and sea grass beds, lagoons, beaches, caves, and willow swamp forests.

For all of its natural beauty, Cat Ba Island faces numerous environmental problems. Increases in tourism and recent developments threaten the ecological integrity and biodiversity of the island, reducing and fragmenting the natural habitat for Cat Ba's numerous species. Illegal hunting and poaching, overfishing, and water pollution in Ha Long Bay continue to threaten the ecological health of the island. The island is a national park of Vietnam and was recognized by UNESCO in December 2004 as a Biosphere reserve of the world.

Organize activities for the children, small renovation at school, activities to raise awareness of youth and local people about environment, climate change, protect white-headed langur at Cat Ba National park...etc

Cat Ba island, Hai Phong city.

Noi Bai International Airport (HAN)

Volunteers will stay with the host families. Meals are self-prepared.

Flash light, sleeping bag, prove-water clothes, raincoat, gift from your country for host-family, toys and learning materials for the children if you have.

With a total of 326 children (155 girls), Nuoc Trong nursery school is supposed to be among the main kindergartens in Tan Hoi village. Operated by the workforce of 10 staff and 19 teachers, the kindergarten is still considered to be underdeveloped with the lack of necessary facilities. Indeed, the school is totally short of teaching tools and there are not enough toys to help the kids to develop their intelligence as well as social skills properly. Additionally, the majority of teachers are young and inexperienced, thus suffering a great deal of difficulties in teaching and nurturing the kids. Furthermore, a number of classrooms in the school are quite poorly decorated, which may make it much harder in stimulating the children’s spiritual awareness and growth.

Organize activities for the kids (teaching, singing, playing games...); do gardening (planting, picking-up grass, etc.); join in with repairing house or other manual works.

Volunteers will stay at the dormitory with basic conditions. Meals will be prepared by volunteers, or sometimes dine in the local restaurant nearby.

Tay Ninh, Ho Chi Minh city

Tan Son Nhat International Airport (SGN)

Public bus

Sleeping bag, raincoat, info materials and pictures of your country, presents, toys and activity materials for the children if you have prepared any.

Phu Yen is one of the CEC is an environment for children aged from 6-15 years old and an English supportive center for adults who take part in in-service training and associate training courses with universities and colleges throughout the country. In Phu Yen, volunteers will teach English to children and support the teachers to improve the english teaching methods.

Organize a play scheme for the children during summer. Different workshops such as painting, sport, art, dancing will be held by volunteers. Teaching some basic English to the children through games, songs, activities. Small renovation for classroom at the kindergarten.

C&C center, Tuy Hoa, Phu Yen province.

Nearest International airport: Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN).

Tuy Hoa airport

Volunteers will stay at the center with basic conditions. Volunteers will share a toilet in the room. Meals are cooked by volunteers.

Sleeping bag, sleeping mat, raincoat, swimming suites, info materials and pictures of your country, toys and learning materials for the children if you have.

The mission of Phuc Tue Center is to help disabled children become more independent in their everyday life by building their self-confidence. At the centre we aim to help educate and improve mental health, as well as provide development and vocational skills training to help integrate these individuals back into employment. This not only allows these individuals to feel independent in their everyday life but this will also lessen the potential burden on the family and society. Currently, the centre has 80 disabled children with ailments including Down’s syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, children who have been victims of Agent Orange, as well as other mental illnesses. The Centre has applied the specific education measures which are suited for each individual and has used psychotherapy methods in attempts to rehabilitate the mentally disabled. Some of the children are treated with medicine while others are not.

Organize activities for the kids; do gardening (planting, picking-up grass, etc.); join repairing house or other manual works

Phuc Tue disabled and autism children center – Hanoi

Noi Bai International Airport (HAN)

Public bus

Volunteers will stay at the dormitory with basic conditions. Breakfast and dinner will be provided at accommodation, only lunch at local restaurant near project site.

Sleeping bag, pillow, toiletries, info materials and pictures of your country, toys and learning materials for the children if you have.

Triem Tay is a village located near the well-known Hoi An World Heritage Site and surrounded by several tourist attractions, such as the Kim Bong wood carving and Phuoc Kieu bronze casting villages. To reach this village, visitors will take 15 minute boat transfer from Hoi An fishing port, across Thu Bon River. There are totally 147 households in this village and their local lives depend on weaving mats, farming and fishing. The main architecture of Triem Tay eco-tourism village is based on the rural community, so there are many ancient wooden houses, tranquil garden houses and bamboo huts for visitors to enjoy beautiful river landscape.

SJ Vietnam settles down a long term project here (capacity building) in collaboration with Unesco Hanoi and International Labor Organization Vietnam (ILO) not only to improve infrastructure, stop landslide because of rain/typhoon but also promote our true Vietnam beauty as well as our value of countryside through eco-tourism based on community with our human resource are international volunteers.

Organize activities to raise awareness of local people about social tourism; help local people building fence, “bamboo road” from house to common play ground of the village; organize workshop about world heritage preservation in university; conduct event 1 day “Walking for Hoi An”, encourage foreigners tourist join us to walk around the old town and to Triem Tay village...etc

Triem Tay village, Quang Nam province - belong to Hoi An, world heritage site.

Da Nang International airport (DAD)

Public bus, boat or bicycle

Volunteers will stay at the home stay at the project site. Meals are at local restaurant.

Sleeping bag, toiletries, info materials and pictures of your country, toys and learning materials for the children if you have.