BACKGROUND
MLTV 1101-1 INTERCULTURAL AND LANGUAGE (ICL) – SONGKHLA, learning and sharing the intercultural and language still are the main purpose. The volunteers can share and learn culture, language, and knowledge with the local community and children in school. Also, the volunteers will know more about Thailand during working in local community

Nowadays, English language as the global language and intercultural learning are important for local Thai people, especially Thailand as a tourism country. After the project was created by VSA Thailand and has been successful for seven years. The great volunteers came to give the opportunity for children in schools where they are in the poor local community. Many local people can improve their English skills through a group by group of volunteer, or at least they try to speak the English language more. They dare to face and work with the foreigner even though they cannot speak English. Moreover, the volunteers have changed the local community. They used to stay lively and trustily with the foreigner. Local people have a chance to learn, accept, and adopt the ways of life with the new cultures from the volunteers who are like an intercultural ambassador.

In 2018, the project needs the volunteers, who are the most important of the part, to continue for developing the potential of a local community that the last volunteers did, to help children in school, and local community still practice English language, to learn your own language, and to make them learn more the different culture. On the other hand, the volunteers also get the opportunity to know local food, local transportation, local occupation and local culture with living in local habitation in the community. We believe that understanding several cultures can make the world be peaceful.

Volunteers are mainly creating non-formal education in English class with English teachers. The teacher at the school can give the advice (do not expect this point too much even the teachers are also shy to speak out in English or even could not communicate in English) You also get the volunteer's history report book which last volunteers wrote what they did and information you need.

Volunteers stay at Learning Home, VSA PEACE House, or homestay with host Thai family. Volunteers will stay in the room. Mattress and mosquito net are provided. Volunteers take turn to cook Thai food together with the host and have lunch at school. You are expected to bring your ingredients from your hometown for cultural exchange.

Love to play with kids. Please bring some teaching materials such as a book, kids’ education game, stationary, etc. from your country. It will be a good way for cultural exchange and make students have more motivation. No smoking and alcohol drinking in the project.

SONGKHLA, THAILAND

Hat Yai International Airport
Hat Yai Bus Station
Hat Yai Train Station

To be paid upon arrival.
14,000 Baht for the 1st month (including project preparation and orientation week).
12,000 Baht for 2nd and 3rd months.
10,000 Bath from the 4th month onwards.
(10,000 Bath is approx. £225).

The participation fee is spent on a project running, food, accommodation during volunteer project period, administration and organization running. The volunteers have to pay their own expenses such as souvenir, personal food, and free time travel expense, and also expense before the project starts and after the project ends.

Why it is necessary to pay a Participation Fee?
VSA is not financially supported by government to host projects related to IVS. Hence all projects are self-funded with a participation fee. Giving the remote locations and various complexities, we have tried our best to make it as affordable as possible for volunteers. Being a non-profit organization, we emphasize on transparency, below is how we spend collected participation fee.

- Food, accommodation, and logistics of the volunteers during workcamp.
- Project set up costs. (material and logistics cost)
- Running the camp. (wage of professional like mason, carpenter, plumber, etc. Training local youth supported by us.)
- Office running/admin expenses. (internet, photocopy, stationary, electricity, phone, salary, office equipment, tool and rental etc.)
- Supporting small community project.
- International travel costs to global conferences and membership fee for networking.

The participation fee will be divided as follows...
- 40% for Project running, preparing workcamp all workcamp and MLTV project cost
- 40% for Organization running, all administrative cost such as the internet, rental, salary, phone, equipment, etc.
- 10% for Networking, training, and seminar, the cost for international travel costs to global conferences and membership fee for networking.
10% for the Foundation, activities and support to our local partners outside the project.

There are 2 ways to obtain visa if you are a Medium/Long Term Volunteer

1 - Apply for a tourist visa, mostly the volunteers get a visa to stay in Thailand for 2 months. After that, if the volunteers want to extend the visa, they can extend it at Royal Thai Consulate-General Penang, Malaysia (the easiest way), and the volunteers will get more 30 days include 1900 Baht for visa fee. Furthermore, if the volunteers want to extend the visa, but less than 30 days, they can apply for tourist visa at the immigration office.
2 - If you want to stay more than 2 months, apply for Non-Immigrant Visa “O-A” (Long Stay)

Please contact us immediately if the volunteers need confirmation letter after coordinate clearly with the sending organization. VSA Thailand can help the volunteers before they leave their country, but VSA Thailand cannot provide a visa upon arrival in Thailand. The volunteers need to make arrangement for a visa in their home country before departure date. The sending organization will usually help the volunteers along with the process.
If the volunteers have a tourist visa, do not go out of Thailand until your visa date expires because the tourist visa will finish automatically, and they have to ask for visa again at Thai Consulate abroad.

Rajapachanukroh 50 School is a school for disadvantaged and poor children in the countryside of Khon Kan, Thailand.

The school is under the Royal Foundation offers education, food and accommodation for the children who have no parents, the children from the poor family, and the children from the very remote area. They can come and stay at the school from the primary (7 years) to high school (18 years). They are staying at the school with the teacher, so we are offering them. It is not only education but is also life and opportunity.

In 2018, the project needs the volunteers, who are the most important of the part, to continue for developing the potential of education that the last volunteers did, to make children in school still get inspiration to speak English and to learn your own language. The volunteers can share more about the different culture.

Volunteers are expected to work as an English teacher in primary and high school. You can prepare the easy English lesson and useful conversation. Open mind and share a new experience with the students. Use your own experience for teaching and enjoying the game.

Volunteers will stay in the school accommodation. You have your own room (bedroom and bathroom) and have a meal at the school.

Volunteers should love to play with kids. Please bring some teaching materials such as a book, kids’ education game, stationary, etc. from your country. It will be a good way for cultural exchange and make students have more motivation. No smoking and alcohol drinking in the project.
Let’s be a volunteer! We know you can make smile to local Thai people, continue the recent project area, and be an apart of the project to extend the new community of intercultural and language in Thailand.

Rajapachanukro H 50 School, Khon Kaen.

Khon Kaen Airport
Khon Kaen Train station
Khon Kaen Bus station

Visits to Buddhist temples and to the local market.

To be paid upon arrival.
14,000 Baht for the 1st month (including project preparation and orientation week).
12,000 Baht for 2nd and 3rd months.
10,000 Bath from the 4th month onwards.
(10,000 Bath is approx. £225).

The participation fee is spent on a project running, food, accommodation during volunteer project period, administration and organization running. The volunteers have to pay their own expenses such as souvenir, personal food, and free time travel expense, and also expense before the project starts and after the project ends.

Why it is necessary to pay a Participation Fee?
VSA is not financially supported by government to host projects related to IVS. Hence all projects are self-funded with a participation fee. Giving the remote locations and various complexities, we have tried our best to make it as affordable as possible for volunteers. Being a non-profit organization, we emphasize on transparency, below is how we spend collected participation fee.

- Food, accommodation, and logistics of the volunteers during workcamp.
- Project set up costs. (material and logistics cost)
- Running the camp. (wage of professional like mason, carpenter, plumber, etc. Training local youth supported by us.)
- Office running/admin expenses. (internet, photocopy, stationary, electricity, phone, salary, office equipment, tool and rental etc.)
- Supporting small community project.
- International travel costs to global conferences and membership fee for networking.

The participation fee will be divided as follows...
- 40% for Project running, preparing workcamp all workcamp and MLTV project cost
- 40% for Organization running, all administrative cost such as the internet, rental, salary, phone, equipment, etc.
- 10% for Networking, training, and seminar, the cost for international travel costs to global conferences and membership fee for networking.
- 10% for the Foundation, activities and support to our local partners outside the project.

There are 2 ways to obtain visa if you are a Medium/Long Term Volunteer

1 - Apply for a tourist visa, mostly the volunteers get a visa to stay in Thailand for 2 months. After that, if the volunteers want to extend the visa, they can extend it at Royal Thai Consulate-General Penang, Malaysia (the easiest way), and the volunteers will get more 30 days include 1900 Baht for visa fee. Furthermore, if the volunteers want to extend the visa, but less than 30 days, they can apply for tourist visa at the immigration office.
2 - If you want to stay more than 2 months, apply for Non-Immigrant Visa “O-A” (Long Stay)

Please contact us immediately if the volunteers need confirmation letter after coordinate clearly with the sending organization. VSA Thailand can help the volunteers before they leave their country, but VSA Thailand cannot provide a visa upon arrival in Thailand. The volunteers need to make arrangement for a visa in their home country before departure date. The sending organization will usually help the volunteers along with the process.
If the volunteers have a tourist visa, do not go out of Thailand until your visa date expires because the tourist visa will finish automatically, and they have to ask for visa again at Thai Consulate abroad.

Rajapachanukroh 53 School is the school for disadvantaged and poor children in the countryside of Sakon-Nakhon, Thailand.

The school is under the royal foundation offers education, food and accommodation for the children who have no parents, the children from the poor family, and the children from the very remote area. They can come and stay at the school from the primary (7 years) to high school (18 years). They are staying at the school with the teacher, so we are offering them. It is not only education but is also life and opportunity.

In 2018, the project needs the volunteers, who are the most important of the part, to continue for developing the potential of education that the last volunteers did, to make children in school still get inspiration to speak English and to learn your own language. The volunteers can share more about the different culture.

Volunteers are expected to work as an English teacher in primary and high school. You can prepare the easy English lesson and useful conversation. Open mind and share a new experience with the students. Use your own experience for teaching and enjoying the game.

Volunteers will stay in the school accommodation. You have your own accommodation (bedroom and bathroom) and have a meal at the school.

Volunteers should love to play with kids and please bring some teaching material such as a book, kids’ education game, stationary, etc. from your country, it will be a good way for cultural exchange and make students have more motivation.

RAJAPACHANUKROH 53 SCHOOL, SAKON NAKHON, THAILAND

Sakon Nakhon Airport
Sakon Nakhon Bus Station

14,000 Baht for 1st month (including project preparation and orientation week)
12,000 Baht for 2nd and 3rd months.
10,000 Bath for the 4th month.
NB - 10,000 Baht is approx. £225.

The participation fee is spent on a project running, food, accommodation during volunteer project period, administration and organization running. The volunteers have to pay their own expenses such as souvenir, personal food, and free time travel expense, and also expense before the project starts and after the project ends.

Why it is necessary to pay a Participation Fee?
VSA is not financially supported by government to host projects related to IVS. Hence all projects are self-funded with a participation fee. Giving the remote locations and various complexities, we have tried our best to make it as affordable as possible for volunteers. Being a non-profit organization, we emphasize on transparency, below is how we spend collected participation fee.

- Food, accommodation, and logistics of the volunteers during workcamp.
- Project set up costs. (material and logistics cost)
- Running the camp. (wage of professional like mason, carpenter, plumber, etc. Training local youth supported by us.)
- Office running/admin expenses. (internet, photocopy, stationary, electricity, phone, salary, office equipment, tool and rental etc.)
- Supporting small community project.
- International travel costs to global conferences and membership fee for networking.

The participation fee will be divided as follows...
- 40% for Project running, preparing workcamp all workcamp and MLTV project cost
- 40% for Organization running, all administrative cost such as the internet, rental, salary, phone, equipment, etc.
- 10% for Networking, training, and seminar, the cost for international travel costs to global conferences and membership fee for networking.
10% for the Foundation, activities and support to our local partners outside the project.

1 - Apply for a tourist visa, mostly the volunteers get a visa to stay in Thailand for 2 months. After that, if the volunteers want to extend the visa, they can extend it at Royal Thai Consulate-General Penang, Malaysia (the easiest way), and the volunteers will get more 30 days include 1900 Baht for visa fee. Furthermore, if the volunteers want to extend the visa, but less than 30 days, they can apply for tourist visa at the immigration office.
2 - If you want to stay more than 2 months, apply for Non-Immigrant Visa “O-A” (Long Stay)

Please contact us immediately if the volunteers need confirmation letter after coordinate clearly with the sending organization. VSA Thailand can help the volunteers before they leave their country, but VSA Thailand cannot provide a visa upon arrival in Thailand. The volunteers need to make arrangement for a visa in their home country before departure date. The sending organization will usually help the volunteers along with the process.
If the volunteers have a tourist visa, do not go out of Thailand until your visa date expires because the tourist visa will finish automatically, and they have to ask for visa again at Thai Consulate abroad.

Rajapachanukroh 50 School is a school for disadvantaged and poor children in the countryside of Khon Kan, Thailand.

The school is under the Royal Foundation offers education, food and accommodation for the children who have no parents, the children from the poor family, and the children from the very remote area. They can come and stay at the school from the primary (7 years) to high school (18 years). They are staying at the school with the teacher, so we are offering them. It is not only education but is also life and opportunity.

In 2018, the project needs the volunteers, who are the most important of the part, to continue for developing the potential of education that the last volunteers did, to make children in school still get inspiration to speak English and to learn your own language. The volunteers can share more about the different culture.

Volunteers are expected to work as an English teacher in primary and high school. You can prepare the easy English lesson and useful conversation. Open mind and share a new experience with the students. Use your own experience for teaching and enjoying the game.

Volunteers will stay in the school accommodation. You have your own room (bedroom and bathroom) and have a meal at the school.

Volunteers should love to play with kids. Please bring some teaching materials such as a book, kids’ education game, stationary, etc. from your country. It will be a good way for cultural exchange and make students have more motivation. No smoking and alcohol drinking in the project.
Let’s be a volunteer! We know you can make smile to local Thai people, continue the recent project area, and be an apart of the project to extend the new community of intercultural and language in Thailand.

Rajapachanukro H 50 School, Khon Kaen.

Khon Kaen Airport
Khon Kaen Train station
Khon Kaen Bus station

Visits to Buddhist temples and to the local market.

To be paid upon arrival.
14,000 Baht for the 1st month (including project preparation and orientation week).
12,000 Baht for 2nd and 3rd months.
10,000 Bath from the 4th month onwards.
(10,000 Bath is approx. £225).

The participation fee is spent on a project running, food, accommodation during volunteer project period, administration and organization running. The volunteers have to pay their own expenses such as souvenir, personal food, and free time travel expense, and also expense before the project starts and after the project ends.

Why it is necessary to pay a Participation Fee?
VSA is not financially supported by government to host projects related to IVS. Hence all projects are self-funded with a participation fee. Giving the remote locations and various complexities, we have tried our best to make it as affordable as possible for volunteers. Being a non-profit organization, we emphasize on transparency, below is how we spend collected participation fee.

- Food, accommodation, and logistics of the volunteers during workcamp.
- Project set up costs. (material and logistics cost)
- Running the camp. (wage of professional like mason, carpenter, plumber, etc. Training local youth supported by us.)
- Office running/admin expenses. (internet, photocopy, stationary, electricity, phone, salary, office equipment, tool and rental etc.)
- Supporting small community project.
- International travel costs to global conferences and membership fee for networking.

The participation fee will be divided as follows...
- 40% for Project running, preparing workcamp all workcamp and MLTV project cost
- 40% for Organization running, all administrative cost such as the internet, rental, salary, phone, equipment, etc.
- 10% for Networking, training, and seminar, the cost for international travel costs to global conferences and membership fee for networking.
- 10% for the Foundation, activities and support to our local partners outside the project.

There are 2 ways to obtain visa if you are a Medium/Long Term Volunteer

1 - Apply for a tourist visa, mostly the volunteers get a visa to stay in Thailand for 2 months. After that, if the volunteers want to extend the visa, they can extend it at Royal Thai Consulate-General Penang, Malaysia (the easiest way), and the volunteers will get more 30 days include 1900 Baht for visa fee. Furthermore, if the volunteers want to extend the visa, but less than 30 days, they can apply for tourist visa at the immigration office.
2 - If you want to stay more than 2 months, apply for Non-Immigrant Visa “O-A” (Long Stay)

Please contact us immediately if the volunteers need confirmation letter after coordinate clearly with the sending organization. VSA Thailand can help the volunteers before they leave their country, but VSA Thailand cannot provide a visa upon arrival in Thailand. The volunteers need to make arrangement for a visa in their home country before departure date. The sending organization will usually help the volunteers along with the process.
If the volunteers have a tourist visa, do not go out of Thailand until your visa date expires because the tourist visa will finish automatically, and they have to ask for visa again at Thai Consulate abroad.

Rajapachanukroh 53 School is the school for disadvantaged and poor children in the countryside of Sakon-Nakhon, Thailand.

The school is under the royal foundation offers education, food and accommodation for the children who have no parents, the children from the poor family, and the children from the very remote area. They can come and stay at the school from the primary (7 years) to high school (18 years). They are staying at the school with the teacher, so we are offering them. It is not only education but is also life and opportunity.

In 2018, the project needs the volunteers, who are the most important of the part, to continue for developing the potential of education that the last volunteers did, to make children in school still get inspiration to speak English and to learn your own language. The volunteers can share more about the different culture.

Volunteers are expected to work as an English teacher in primary and high school. You can prepare the easy English lesson and useful conversation. Open mind and share a new experience with the students. Use your own experience for teaching and enjoying the game.

Volunteers will stay in the school accommodation. You have your own accommodation (bedroom and bathroom) and have a meal at the school.

Volunteers should love to play with kids and please bring some teaching material such as a book, kids’ education game, stationary, etc. from your country, it will be a good way for cultural exchange and make students have more motivation.

RAJAPACHANUKROH 53 SCHOOL, SAKON NAKHON, THAILAND

Sakon Nakhon Airport
Sakon Nakhon Bus Station

14,000 Baht for 1st month (including project preparation and orientation week)
12,000 Baht for 2nd and 3rd months.
10,000 Bath for the 4th month.
NB - 10,000 Baht is approx. £225.

The participation fee is spent on a project running, food, accommodation during volunteer project period, administration and organization running. The volunteers have to pay their own expenses such as souvenir, personal food, and free time travel expense, and also expense before the project starts and after the project ends.

Why it is necessary to pay a Participation Fee?
VSA is not financially supported by government to host projects related to IVS. Hence all projects are self-funded with a participation fee. Giving the remote locations and various complexities, we have tried our best to make it as affordable as possible for volunteers. Being a non-profit organization, we emphasize on transparency, below is how we spend collected participation fee.

- Food, accommodation, and logistics of the volunteers during workcamp.
- Project set up costs. (material and logistics cost)
- Running the camp. (wage of professional like mason, carpenter, plumber, etc. Training local youth supported by us.)
- Office running/admin expenses. (internet, photocopy, stationary, electricity, phone, salary, office equipment, tool and rental etc.)
- Supporting small community project.
- International travel costs to global conferences and membership fee for networking.

The participation fee will be divided as follows...
- 40% for Project running, preparing workcamp all workcamp and MLTV project cost
- 40% for Organization running, all administrative cost such as the internet, rental, salary, phone, equipment, etc.
- 10% for Networking, training, and seminar, the cost for international travel costs to global conferences and membership fee for networking.
10% for the Foundation, activities and support to our local partners outside the project.

1 - Apply for a tourist visa, mostly the volunteers get a visa to stay in Thailand for 2 months. After that, if the volunteers want to extend the visa, they can extend it at Royal Thai Consulate-General Penang, Malaysia (the easiest way), and the volunteers will get more 30 days include 1900 Baht for visa fee. Furthermore, if the volunteers want to extend the visa, but less than 30 days, they can apply for tourist visa at the immigration office.
2 - If you want to stay more than 2 months, apply for Non-Immigrant Visa “O-A” (Long Stay)

Please contact us immediately if the volunteers need confirmation letter after coordinate clearly with the sending organization. VSA Thailand can help the volunteers before they leave their country, but VSA Thailand cannot provide a visa upon arrival in Thailand. The volunteers need to make arrangement for a visa in their home country before departure date. The sending organization will usually help the volunteers along with the process.
If the volunteers have a tourist visa, do not go out of Thailand until your visa date expires because the tourist visa will finish automatically, and they have to ask for visa again at Thai Consulate abroad.