It’s the first year SJ Vietnam has implemented social traveling camps (STC). These can vary greatly in subject such as environmental, educational, art, transportation, and social work. One traditional characteristic, originating from work camps, is that both international and national volunteers organize voluntary activities, discussions, exchange parties, school visits and sports programs. The new features of social traveling camps are to expand voluntary fields into environment, transportation, and culture as well as to help and arrange short excursions for volunteers for an additional but reasonable cost. These are high quality, cultural and recreational activities at weekends. Not only do volunteers have opportunities of doing charity work but also savoring Vietnamese scenery and culture.
Location:
Hanoi, The capital of Vietnam.
Special Skills:
Teaching and creative skills would be useful, especially experience relating to mentally-disabled people.
Project Duration:
From 2 to 3 weeks throughout the year.
Details:
The purpose of this camp, is to help mentally-disabled children to do routine tasks, and therefore integrate themselves into the community. In the center, some children are heavily handicapped, with disabilities like deafness or blindness. These children have difficulties in moving, holding things and often lose their concentration easily. You can help them improve their muscular strength greatly, by taking them for a walk, teaching them to do simple exercises and to play simple games. For not seriously handicapped children, you may organize English classes, teach them to play simple games, sing songs, draw and many other things. After that, you can teach them to play sports such as badminton in the backyard.
Hai Duong Orphanage was established in 2002. With about 1,000 disabled and orphan children coming from many parts of Hai Duong province. The orphanage aims to provide basic education and vocational training to create employment opportunities for the teenagers with many different age groups. The orphanage has a wide variety of courses for children ranging from infants to 18 years old. For example, children between the ages of 6 to 12 will be provided with educational courses, and the older children are able to attend vocational training courses at the center. While special education helps to lessen the burden on the childrens families by teaching the disabled to help themselves with personal activities, the vocational training programs enable handicapped children to earn their living and able to live independently in the future.
Work:
Volunteers will help organizing games and educational activities for children in the orphanage and exchanging with local volunteers or staff. Sometimes volunteers can help with some renovation work.
Study Theme:
Disadvantaged children in Vietnam.
Age:
18+
Accommodation:
Shared rooms on project site. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
Location:
Hai Duong City.
Travel:
Hanoi Airport, 2 hour drive to the east.
Qualifications:
Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation
Leisure Activities:
Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
Thuy An Orphanage was founded in 1979, with the aim to provide good shelter and care for orphans and children with disabilities. At this moment, there are about 150 children who are abandoned, or who are from very poor families, that cannot afford caring for the treatment of disabilities. The orphanage is providing housing, education and basic care for the children, as well as providing vocational training, with the hope that they can stand on their own feet, and obtain a job in the future. VPV is working with the orphanage to start up an organic garden, with the aim to provide extra food for the children, and at the same time provide opportunities for labor rehabilitation for them.
Work:
Volunteers will help with taking care of the children and organising social activities for them. There will also be some manual work, such as clearing the site, preparing soil, weeding, planting vegetables and fruit trees, moving bricks for construction, collecting garbage and playing with the children or exchanging with local volunteers or staff. [In VPV37-10, volunteers will also help to organise Christmas and New Year festival for the children in the orphanage].
Age:
18+
Study Theme:
Disadvantaged children in Vietnam.
Accommodation:
Shared rooms in project site. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by volunteers with support from local people.
Location:
Thuy An, Ba Vi, Ha Noi.
Travel:
Hanoi Airport, 2 hour drive to the west.
Qualifications:
Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation.
Leisure Activities:
Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
The center is an orphanage and vocational school for 1000 orphans and disabled children/ teenagers in Hai Duong province. The work will be flexible and will be confirmed during the orientation of the camp. It can be: preparing food for the children and taking care of orphan babies, renovate the bedrooms of the children, paint the walls, cleaning the center or dormitories.
Accommodation and Food:
Volunteers will stay in the center. Beds are available. The group will have meals with the children at the canteen of the center.
Program:
Your work starts at 9 am to 11:00 am and in the afternoon you work from 2 to 4:30pm. There are different tasks to be done such as preparing food for the children, taking care of orphan babies and painting children’s rooms or beds. In the evening you have free time where you can have leisure activities with kids or exchange culture with local volunteers.
Location:
Hai Duong is about 50km away from Ha Noi city. It is quite calm in the city but there is some “town and club” life around. However, you have to come back the center before 10pm.
Participation fee:
We are a non-profit organization with no external income, so we charge volunteers coming from developed countries a participation fee of 150 Euro per workcamp. You can pay in US Dollars or Vietnam Dong, and includes your accommodation, food, scholarship, donation, festivals for disadvantaged children and people, materials, training for locals, local transport and 20% of these fees will be used for SJ Vietnam administration (staff salary, rent, overhead costs, etc).
The center is an orphanage and vocational school for 1000 orphans and disabled children/ teenagers in Hai Duong province. The work will be flexible and will be confirmed during the orientation of the camp. It can be: preparing food for the children and taking care of orphan babies, renovate the bedrooms of the children, paint the walls, cleaning the center or dormitories.
Accommodation and Food:
Volunteers will stay in the center. Beds are available. The group will have meals with the children at the canteen of the center.
Program:
Your work starts at 9 am to 11:00 am and in the afternoon you work from 2 to 4:30pm. There are different tasks to be done such as preparing food for the children, taking care of orphan babies and painting children’s rooms or beds. In the evening you have free time where you can have leisure activities with kids or exchange culture with local volunteers.
Location:
Hai Duong is about 50km away from Ha Noi city. It is quite calm in the city but there is some “town and club” life around. However, you have to come back the center before 10pm.
Participation fee:
We are a non-profit organization with no external income, so we charge volunteers coming from developed countries a participation fee of 150 Euro per workcamp. You can pay in US Dollars or Vietnam Dong, and includes your accommodation, food, scholarship, donation, festivals for disadvantaged children and people, materials, training for locals, local transport and 20% of these fees will be used for SJ Vietnam administration (staff salary, rent, overhead costs, etc).
Thuy An Orphanage was founded in 1979, with the aim to provide good shelter and care for orphans and children with disabilities. At this moment, there are about 150 children who are abandoned, or who are from very poor families, that cannot afford caring for the treatment of disabilities. The orphanage is providing housing, education and basic care for the children, as well as providing vocational training, with the hope that they can stand on their own feet, and obtain a job in the future. VPV is working with the orphanage to start up an organic garden, with the aim to provide extra food for the children, and at the same time provide opportunities for labor rehabilitation for them.
Work:
Volunteers will help with taking care of the children and organising social activities for them. There will also be some manual work, such as clearing the site, preparing soil, weeding, planting vegetables and fruit trees, moving bricks for construction, collecting garbage and playing with the children or exchanging with local volunteers or staff. [In VPV37-10, volunteers will also help to organise Christmas and New Year festival for the children in the orphanage].
Age:
18+
Study Theme:
Disadvantaged children in Vietnam.
Accommodation:
Shared rooms in project site. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by volunteers with support from local people.
Location:
Thuy An, Ba Vi, Ha Noi.
Travel:
Hanoi Airport, 2 hour drive to the west.
Qualifications:
Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation.
Leisure Activities:
Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
The center is an orphanage and vocational school for 1000 orphans and disabled children/ teenagers in Hai Duong province. The work will be flexible and will be confirmed during the orientation of the camp. It can be: preparing food for the children and taking care of orphan babies, renovate the bedrooms of the children, paint the walls, cleaning the center or dormitories.
Accommodation and Food:
Volunteers will stay in the center. Beds are available. The group will have meals with the children at the canteen of the center.
Program:
Your work starts at 9 am to 11:00 am and in the afternoon you work from 2 to 4:30pm. There are different tasks to be done such as preparing food for the children, taking care of orphan babies and painting children’s rooms or beds. In the evening you have free time where you can have leisure activities with kids or exchange culture with local volunteers.
Location:
Hai Duong is about 50km away from Ha Noi city. It is quite calm in the city but there is some “town and club” life around. However, you have to come back the center before 10pm.
Participation fee:
We are a non-profit organization with no external income, so we charge volunteers coming from developed countries a participation fee of 150 Euro per workcamp. You can pay in US Dollars or Vietnam Dong, and includes your accommodation, food, scholarship, donation, festivals for disadvantaged children and people, materials, training for locals, local transport and 20% of these fees will be used for SJ Vietnam administration (staff salary, rent, overhead costs, etc).
Thuy An Orphanage was founded in 1979, with the aim to provide good shelter and care for orphans and children with disabilities. At this moment, there are about 150 children who are abandoned, or who are from very poor families, that cannot afford caring for the treatment of disabilities. The orphanage is providing housing, education and basic care for the children, as well as providing vocational training, with the hope that they can stand on their own feet, and obtain a job in the future. VPV is working with the orphanage to start up an organic garden, with the aim to provide extra food for the children, and at the same time provide opportunities for labor rehabilitation for them.
Work:
Volunteers will help with taking care of the children and organising social activities for them. There will also be some manual work, such as clearing the site, preparing soil, weeding, planting vegetables and fruit trees, moving bricks for construction, collecting garbage and playing with the children or exchanging with local volunteers or staff. [In VPV37-10, volunteers will also help to organise Christmas and New Year festival for the children in the orphanage].
Age:
18+
Study Theme:
Disadvantaged children in Vietnam.
Accommodation:
Shared rooms in project site. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by volunteers with support from local people.
Location:
Thuy An, Ba Vi, Ha Noi.
Travel:
Hanoi Airport, 2 hour drive to the west.
Qualifications:
Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation.
Leisure Activities:
Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
« I would recommend participating in a workcamp, especially with VAP, who ensured that I found a project to suit me and provided essential training for me in preparation for my trip. Being part of a workcamp really is a life-changing experience, oh, and it looks great on your CV! »
