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.
Accomodation & food:
Volunteers will stay at the center with basic conditions. Volunteers will share a toilet in the room. Meals are cooked by volunteers.
Location & leisure:
You will have free time during the evenings and the weekends to spend as you please. During those free moments you can explore Phu Yen i the province encompasses a diverse landscape of mountains, rivers, lagoons and fertile plains. The capital city Tuy Hoa offers a good base for exploring the beaches, bays and offshore islands up and down the coast, with an ancient tower (Nhan Cham) to see and a large seated Buddha on a hilltop just north of the city.
Requirements:
Sleeping bag, sleeping mat, raincoat, swimming suites, info materials and pictures of your country, toys and learning materials for the children if you have. Prepare some games that are interesting for kids.
Organize activities and teach English; conduct small workshops about child s right for the kids here, get adult, young parents who live nearby involved.
Accomodation & food:
Volunteers will stay at the guest house nearby school. Meals are at local restaurant.
Location & leisure:
You will have free time during the evenings and the weekends to spend as you please. During those free moments you can visit local markets nearby and come to center of HCM to discover the busiest cities in Vietnam.
Requirements:
Info materials and pictures of your country, presents, toys and activities materials for the children if you have. Prepare yourself to deal with kids- some of them are annoyed, closed.
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.
Accomodation & food:
Volunteers will stay at the dormitory with basic conditions. Meals will be prepared by volunteers, or sometimes dine in the local restaurant nearby. Please bring your own sleeping bag and portable mattress as we sleep on the floor.
Location & leisure:
You will have free time during the evenings and the weekends to spend as you please. During those free moments you can travel to discover further wonders of Vietnam You can climb Ba Den mountain-the highest mountain in the southeastern part of Vietnam nearby, come to center of HCMC to visit lots of famous places there and visit Me Cong Delta also.
Requirements:
Prepare games that are interesting and suitable for stages of 3-5 years old especially for outside activities. Bring some toys from your country for kids if you can,..
Re-decorate the wall of the patient room, make it become a real kindergarten and enjoyable environment for pediatrics especially the one who have to stay in hospital for years. Organize the suitable activities (singing, drawing-) for kids under the observation of doctors.
Accomodation & food:
Volunteers will stay at the guesthouse with basic conditions. Wifi and western style bathroom are available. Meals are at local restaurant.
Location & leisure:
You will have free time during the evenings and the weekends to spend as you please. During those free moments you can visit local markets nearby and come to center of HCM to discover the busiest cities in Vietnam.
Requirements:
Sleeping bag, raincoat, info materials and pictures of your country, toys and learning materials for the children if you have. Prepare yourself to play with kids some are annoyed or even closed.
Volunteers will work with disabled children in one of projects of VPV in Ho Chi Minh city. Here is one of projects to support children with disability. Volunteers will spend most of their time in the day-care room working with disabled children. Volunteers also are expected to help some other manual work such as cleaning, painting or renovation children room.
Accomodation & food:
Peace House-VPV s Dormitory in Saigon. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor with mattress. Showers and toilets available. WI-FI free at volunteer house. Breakfast and dinner will be prepared by volunteers. Lunch is provided at the project.
Location & leisure:
Ho Chi Minh city. Self-organizing city tour and excursion, etc.
Requirements:
Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation
Help local people to garden and repair traditional houses (if needed), organize leisure activities for their children and cultural exchange with the villagers
Accomodation & food:
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.
Location & leisure:
On the weekend, the group can visit beautiful natural spots in Hoa Binh that can t be found in the tourist books. Besides, we can organize cultural exchange activities and games with villagers and local volunteers.
Requirements:
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.
Take care, feed the wild animal (crocodile, monkey, deer-), do gardening at the project site. Organize activities for the children from the village nearby, small renovation at school if needed, activities to raise awareness of youth and local people about environment, climate change, protect white-headed langur at Cat Ba National park...etc
Accomodation & food:
Volunteers will stay inside the tourism center, within a very basic condition. A shared room for all.
Location & leisure:
Volunteers have two days off on the weekend for visiting beautiful spots in Cat Ba and the surroundings such as Ha Long Bay and Yen Tu Pagoda in Quang Ninh. In the evenings, there will be cultural exchange, games and parties with local volunteers.
Requirements:
Flash light, sleeping bag, prove-water clothes, raincoat. Toys and learning materials for the children if you have.Prepare yourself to work with kids, some of them are loud , annoyed.
For volunteers, through participation on the project, they will have chance to learn more about local culture, pupils and children life in Vietnam. Depend on the plan of project, work-camp will work at one school (elementary, secondary or high school). Volunteers will be mainly focus on speaking and communication issues. Games, songs, other funny activities are encouraged in order to have nice exchange with local puppils. Beside the time at class, there are also out-door activities, club can be organized and volunteers may be invited to join as a member or co-organizer. The working schedule will be from Monday to Friday, from 09:00am to 03:00pm with two hours in between for a lunch break.
Accomodation & food:
VPV Dormitory in Sai Gon. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor with mattress. Showers and toilets are available. WIFI free at volunteer house. Breakfast and dinner will be prepared by volunteers. Lunch is provided at the project.
Location & leisure:
Ho Chi Minh city. Vietnamese day, International day, self-organized city tour or excursions, etc.
Requirements:
interest and motivation working with youth and pupils.
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