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Organizing
social activities for children and creating
an organic garden
in Thuy An Orphanage Volunteer project: Thuy An Orphanage was founded in 1979 with the aim to provide good shelter and care for children with disabilities and orphans. 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 children can stand on their own feet with a job in the future. International volunteer groups will be working in 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.
Volunteers will help with taking care of
the children and organizing social activities for them. There will be
also 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 and staff. Study part: Disadvantaged children in Vietnam Special requirements: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation Leisure activities: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc. Language: English Accommodation: Shared rooms in the project site. Location: Thuy An, Ba Vi, Ha Noi Terminal: Hanoi Airport, 2 hour drive to the west Age range: 18 and over
Extra fee: 170 Euro
Teaching
English and organizing games for orphans in Saigon
Volunteer project: Chua La Orphanage is part of Chua La Pagoda located in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). It was built in 1996 when Head Monk, Thich Truyen Tu, returned to the countryside and sold his parent’s land, in order to purchase 2 hectares of muddy land to build a pagoda in Nha Be town. At first the pagoda was named Huyen Trang, but due to the roofs linking together with coconut leaves it got its name Chua La, meaning Leaf Pagoda. Today, in this peaceful and quiet space in the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, the Leaf pagoda is bringing up orphan children and helping old people in need. At the moment, there are about 40 children of ages from 4 to 17 years old. In addition, there are 20 old people in Leaf Pagoda, most of them coming from the surrounding countryside in the South and have had a difficult life. Children have opportunities to learn and speak foreign languages with English being the most studied. They can also speak some Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. The standard of living here is low, almost all of their food is donated, and they only buy tofu. Volunteers will spend time with the children and help improving their English, organizing games and other activities for them. Volunteers will also help redecorating the houses and classrooms, planting vegetable, cleaning the area. Volunteers will get closer to the children’s life and try to build up wider horizon for the children and encourage them to learn better for brighter future. Study part: Disadvantaged children in Vietnam Special requirements: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation Leisure activities: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc. Language: English Accommodation: In a dormitory in Saigon. Shared rooms. Location: District 12, Ho Chi Minh City (or Sai Gon), in the southern part of Vietnam. Terminal: Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN) Age range: 18 and over
Extra fee: 170 Euro
Celebrate
the 1000th anniversary of
Hanoi Volunteer project: Hanoi has been the capital of Vietnam for 1,000 years. On this occasion the local government has planned for the biggest festival in the history to celebrate this event. The main festival will be on October 10, 2010 but many activities will be organized during the year 2010, especially in the first week of October. International volunteers are invited to help the local government in preparing for the festival before and even after the event. The volunteers will help cleaning the site, setting up stages for performances, setting up exchange sessions with discussion with local young people about Hanoi and different capital cities around the world. Study part: History and culture Special requirements: Interest and motivation working with social issues Leisure activities: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc. Language: English Accommodation: In a house with modest conditions. Shared rooms. Location: Tay Mo, Tu Liem, Hanoi Capital (western end of the city). Terminal: Hanoi Airport, 1 hour drive Age range: 18 and over
Extra fee: 170 Euro
Volunteers will spend time with the children and help improving their English, organizing games and other activities for them. Volunteers will also help redecorating the houses and classrooms, planting vegetable, cleaning the area. Volunteers will get closer to the children’s life and try to build up wider horizon for the children and encourage them to learn better for brighter future. Study part: Disadvantaged children in Vietnam Special requirements: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation Leisure activities: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc. Language: English Accommodation: In a dormitory in Saigon. Shared rooms. Location: District 12, Ho Chi Minh City (or Sai Gon), in the southern part of Vietnam. Terminal: Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN) Age range: 18 and over
Extra fee: 170 Euro
These activities are combined with projects to help disadvantaged people at the Fisher Village, who are very poor and live in slum-boats on the Red river. This is done by giving them food, medicines, water filters (for clean drinking water), toothpaste, second-hand warm clothes and free showers in winter, etc. The Red River is the biggest river in Vietnam. The delta is located in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. The city continues to expand with many people coming from the countryside into the urban area. This however, is an expensive endeavor with the government imposing a tax on people coming from the rural area to prevent a massive influx of people. Some people decide however to come despite this financial situation and thus must live in house boats at the river to escape from having to pay. Since they do not technically live in Hanoi they must pay for school which is usually free until the age of 12. The entire family must work hours that most people would consider inhumane. The children wander the streets begging and collecting rubbish. An entire family barely makes $2 a day. Language: English Accommodation: The volunteers will live in the Youth House. The accommodation is dormitory style, beds provided. Volunteers should bring a sleeping bag. Location: Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. The Youth House is close to the city center. The volunteers will have the chance to visit and explore many historical places. Age range: 18 and over
Extra fee: 150 Euro
Organic
gardening project in support of Agent Orange victims Volunteer project: Vietnam Friendship Village is a treatment/care centre located in the western outskirts of Hanoi Capital, which was opened in 1993 to treat children and veterans who suffer from the effects of Agent Orange (a chemical used by the American army during Vietnam-US War). The children, whose fathers or grandfathers were exposed (causing chromosomal damage) or who were contaminated from their mother’s milk, suffer from a range of difficult conditions. While staying in Vietnam Friendship Village, children and veterans are nourished and are provided with free medical care. The children, who may stay there for several years, receive not only basic education, but also some forms of job training.
The Organic Gardening Project was launched in 2004 with the goal of creating islands of a harmonious approach to agriculture within areas of environmental and human devastation - increasing awareness of the consequences of war and, at the same time, demonstrating positive strategies for healing and living. At this moment, the farm is providing about 60% of the village’s consumption of vegetable. It is expected that it will cover all the need and there are products left for sale to raise funds for the village.
Volunteers will help with clearing the site, preparing soil, weeding,
planting vegetables and fruit trees, cleaning a fish pond and
redecorating the flowers in the garden. Additional activities may
include planting trees, moving bricks for construction, collecting
garbage and playing with the children or exchanging with local
volunteers or farmers.
Study part: Disadvantaged children in Vietnam Special requirements: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation Leisure activities: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc. Language: English Accommodation: In a house with modest conditions. Shared rooms. Location: Tay Mo, Tu Liem, Hanoi Capital (western end of the city) Terminal: Hanoi Airport, 1 hour drive Age range: 18 and over
Extra fee: 170 Euro
Beauty
in Diversity Day in Saigon Volunteer project: The “Beauty in Diversity Day” is an annual event organized by UNDP in cooperation with many local and international organizations in Vietnam to celebrate 3 special days together: the World AIDS Day (December 1st), the Day for People with Disabilities (December 3rd) and the International Volunteer Day (December 5th). The event will take place in the wide public in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). It is dedicated to recognizing the diversity of individuals living with or affected by disability, those living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, together with wide range of individuals that volunteer their time and energy to contribute to the community's needs. The volunteers will prepare for the information corner with materials collected from different sources on the themes of HIV/AIDS prevention, disability and volunteering. The work will include designing, erecting, decorating and preparing games and activities for the event. Prepare a lot of ideas for this. Bring related materials from your country. Volunteers will also organize discussions with university students on the above themes. Study part: Voluntary service, HIV/AIDS, disabilities Special requirements: Interest and motivation working with social issues Leisure activities: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc. Language: English Accommodation: In a house with modest conditions. Shared rooms. Location: Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City Terminal: Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN) Age range: 18 and over
Extra fee: 170 Euro
Beauty
in Diversity Day in
Hanoi Volunteer project: The “Beauty in Diversity Day” is an annual event organized by UNDP in cooperation with many local and international organizations in Vietnam to celebrate 3 special days together: the World AIDS Day (December 1st), the Day for People with Disabilities (December 3rd) and the International Volunteer Day (December 5th). The event will take place in the wide public in Hanoi City. It is dedicated to recognizing the diversity of individuals living with or affected by disability, those living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, together with wide range of individuals that volunteer their time and energy to contribute to the community's needs. The volunteers will prepare for the information corner with materials collected from different sources on the themes of HIV/AIDS prevention, disability and volunteering. The work will include designing, erecting, decorating and preparing games and activities for the event. Prepare a lot of ideas for this. Bring related materials from your country. Volunteers will also organize discussions with university students on the above themes. Study part: Voluntary service, HIV/AIDS, disabilities Special requirements: Interest and motivation working with social issues Leisure activities: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc. Language: English Accommodation: In a house with modest conditions. Shared rooms. Location: Tay Mo, Tu Liem, Hanoi Capital (western end of the city) Terminal: Hanoi Airport, 1 hour drive Age range: 18 and over
Extra fee: 170 Euro
Volunteer project: International and local volunteers will organize Christmas and New
Year festival for extremely poor children living in the Fisher village at
the Red River and for the patients of the National Pediatric Hospital in
Hanoi. The volunteers will make nice gifts for the children such as
light stars. The volunteers need to bring Santa Claus clothes. They will also collect second hand clothes to give to the very poor children who don’t have enough warm clothes for the winter. Language: English Accommodation: The volunteers will live in a house near the Red River. Kitchen and sanitary facilities available. Please bring a sleeping bag. Location: Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, a thousand year old city, situated at the banks of the Red River, with an estimated population of about 4 million inhabitants. Age range: 18 and over
Extra fee: 150 Euro
Volunteer project: Tet (Feast of the First Morning) is the Lunar New Year of Vietnamese people. It is the most important traditional celebration each year in Vietnam. Vietnamese usually spend one or two weeks to visit their families, friends, and relatives, and beautiful places. They also go to pagodas and temples to pray for happiness, luck, success, good health, etc. with holy meanings for the New Year. They also make and enjoy very delicious food and cakes, especially “Chung” cake which is square sticky rice cake that all Vietnamese make only for Tet. However, there are still poor people and street children who do not have money for buying or making “Chung” cake. The international volunteers will join a group of local people and volunteers to make "Chung" cake for the poor people and then give them out as happy gifts for the Lunar New Year. "Chung" cakes need to be cooked for 12 hours. The volunteers are expected to help about 300 people on this special occasion. They will also take part in preparing and decorating houses of the poor people. The volunteers will organize special parties and give gifts to street and disadvantaged children to wish them a Happy New Year. Language: English Accommodation: In the International Youth House, near the center of Hanoi. The accommodation is simple, dormitory style. Volunteers should bring a sleeping bag. Location: Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam Age range: 18 and over
Extra fee: 150 Euro
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Volunteer
project: Ky Quang Orphanage is run by Ky Quang Pagoda, which was
built in the early part of the 20th Century in 1924 and is quite famous
in Ho Chi Minh City. The pagoda is now a place of charity for unlucky
children and also helps treat diseases. Now, the pagoda is taking care
and bringing up more than 200 children in the South of Vietnam. The
children here have unfortunate backgrounds as many have been abandoned
by their parents and relatives. Every few months, the monks find a new
baby left in front of the pagoda gate. The head monk sometimes receives
phone calls from hospitals requesting him to take in abandoned babies.
At the moment, about 200 children are living in the Pagoda, their ages
ranging from 5 days old to 40 years old. 90 of these are orphans that
are suffering from cerebral-palsy, blindness or Down's syndrome. At
present, about 30-40 local children have a chance to study at Ky Quang
as some local teachers teach Vietnamese for them in the morning.
Educational and leisure activities for disadvantaged children
in a poor fishing village
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