Hoa Binh Social Work Center was set up in 2001. It is a government social welfare center under Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs. The center is accommodating homeless elderly people, mentally and physically disabled people, poor children and orphans.
The mission of the center is to provide health care and education access for the residents, providing them a safe home and better living which will ultimately get them integrated into normal social life.
At the moment the center has 60 staff with more than 100 residents including 15 homeless elderly people, 57 mentally and physically disabled people, 32 poor and orphans.
Hoa Binh Social Work center is located in Ky Son District, Hoa Binh Province in North West Vietnam, around 70km from Hanoi.

•Take care of/keep an eye on the kids and single people old age.
•Take care of the orphans.
•Organize games and educational activities for the residents.
•Help with the gardening.
•Help with cooking work.
•Organize events for the center
•Networking if relevant.
•Feed the kids when needed.
•Help with fundraising and organize charity campaign for books, old clothes, old shoes for the children if relevant.
•Teach English for children from 6 years old to 18 years old.

English

Hanoi (Noi Bai Airport)

Interest in working with children with disabilities

Shared large room, hot shower available. Local food provided.

5,000,000VND (about 170 Euros)

Background BUOC-village is a small village of Thai-people (an ethnic group came from southern of China) with very pure landscape. As you can see on the above map, this area is placed by only green color and a lot of mountain. Because of this natural condition, Thai-people here rely mainly on agriculture. In the past, the village was located adjacent to streams and people in the village used water of the stream for gardening. During the rainy season water from the mountain goes down through the streams and washes everything away, making it very dangerous to live close to the stream. For this reason, the government has helped residents here to move to higher lands, and build permanent \traditional houses with wood. 10 years have passed since the new BUOC-village was reconstructed in 2002. Currently, firm houses, concrete roads, electricity have become the basic-living-condition of every villager. Although the stream is very beautiful it is dangerous. Despite the good aspects of new infrastructure, villagers still lack a lot of education and understanding about modern society. Therefore, it would be very helpful to help and stay with BUOC-villagers.

Help local people to garden and repair traditional houses (if needed), organize leisure activities for their children and cultural exchange with the villagers.

Buoc village, Hoa Binh city.

Noi Bai International Airport (HAN)

Volunteers will stay together in the bamboo house; western toilets and bath room are available. Meals are normally served by the local people with the help of volunteers.

Sleeping bag, sleeping mat, pillow, prove-water clothes, raincoat, info materials, pictures, specialties and traditional clothes of your country, you are encouraged to bring along small gifts for the local people and the children and volunteers of your camp.

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.

June 1st was proclaimed International Children’s Day by The World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland in 1925. It is widely celebrated in former Soviet nations such as Russia, China and Vietnam. In Vietnam, June is announced as National Action Month for children with the theme is changed every year as part of Vietnam’s efforts to raise public awareness of the care, education and protection of children.

Organize special event to celebrate children’s day for the disadvantaged children (disabled, orphans).

Ho Chi Minh city.

Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN).

Volunteers will stay at the guesthouse with basic conditions. Wifi and western style bathroom are available. Meals are at local restaurant.

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

Since the Youth Centre project was launched 9 years ago SJ Vietnam has succeeded in meeting their first target goals due to the support of our local and international partners and endless hard work of our coordinators and volunteers.

SJ Vietnam had sent most of the disadvantaged, poor and street children to public school and vocational school where they can acquire a proper education and get integrated into the society. Nevertheless the school fees, provided entirely by SJ Vietnam, are rather expensive and need to be covered. SJ Vietnam will therefore continue to provide education to the children staying at the Youth Center but will also participate to activities to raise funds to cover the children school fees. The Centre demonstrates the important role of volunteerism and public-private partnerships in social development.

gathering together to establish this center for disadvantaged, poor and street children; create a space for people to exchange ideas, have a chance to study vocational skills and to be integrated in the community. We also want this center to be a place for Vietnamese youth to exchange their knowledge, experience and culture with international volunteers via workshops and everyday exchange. The Youth House school has now become a Youth center.

Organize activities for disadvantaged children who live illegally in the Red river and at the school nearby Youth center.

Volunteers will sleep in volunteer’s house at SJ Vietnams office. Meals are at local restaurant. Volunteers will have lunch at the Youth center with children and the other volunteers.

Hanoi

Noi Bai Airport (HAN)

Sleeping bag; sleeping mat. Toys for kids are appreciated as well.

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.