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Vietnam    VPV 23-10      Ha Cau Orphanage    02.08.-14.08.2010    KIDS/EDU   20vols
Ha Cau Orphanage was founded in 1997 as an NGO to support children in difficult situation. At this moment, there are about 70 children who are orphan, abandoned or disabled. 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. Children are living in a house built with funding from an international charity. However, they have quite limited activities and connection with local community beside their official school time.
WORK: Volunteers will spend time teaching English for the children, organizing games and other activities for them, making handicraft for fundraising with the children. Volunteers will also help redecorating the classrooms where necessary, and improve their library by collecting/buying books from home country or in Vietnam.
ACCOMMODATION: VPV's Peace House with modest condition. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: Ha Cau Orphanage is located in Ha Dong district, Hanoi. It is quite close to VPV's Peace House in Tay Mo, Tu Liem, Hanoi Capital (western end of the city).
TERMINAL: Hanoi Airport, 1 hour drive.
QUALIFICATIONS: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation
LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO

Vietnam    VPV 24-10      Saigon Chua La Orphanage    02.08.-14.08.2010    KIDS/EDU   20vols
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 HCM 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, with most of them coming from the surrounding countryside in the South and have had a difficult life. Children have had 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.
WORK: 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.
ACCOMMODATION: VPV's Dormitory in Saigon. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: District 12, Ho Chi Minh City (or Sai Gon - southern part of Vietnam).
TERMINAL: Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN)
QUALIFICATION: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation
LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO

Vietnam    VPV 25-10      Vinh Phuc Welfare Center    09.08.-21.08.2010    KIDS/EDU   20vols
Vinh Phuc Welfare Center was established in 2000. With about 300 disabled and orphan children coming from many parts of nothern provinces, 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 centre. While special education helps to lessen the burden of children's families by teaching the disabled to help themselves with personal activities, the vocational training programs enable handicapped children 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.
ACCOMMODATION: Shared rooms in project site. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: Vinh Yen City, Vinh Phuc Province.
TERMINAL: Hanoi Airport, 1 hour drive to the north.
QUALIFICATIONS: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation
LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO

Vietnam    VPV 26-10     Vietnam Friendship Village    16.08.-28.08.2010    KIDS/DISA   20vols
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 fund for the village.
WORK: 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.
ACCOMMODATION: VPV?s Peace House with modest condition. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: Tay Mo, Tu Liem, Hanoi Capital (western end of the city).
TERMINAL: Hanoi Airport, 1 hour drive.
QUALIFICATIONS: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation
LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
EXTRA FEE: 170EURO

Vietnam    VPV 27-10      Saigon Ky Quang Orphanage     16.08.-28.08.2010    KIDS/DISA   20vols
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.
WORK: 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.
ACCOMMODATION: VPV's Dormitory in Saigon. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: District 12, Ho Chi Minh City (or Sai Gon - southern part of Vietnam).
TERMINAL: Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN)
QUALIFICATIONS: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation
LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO

Vietnam    VPV 28-10      Thuy An Orphanage    06.09.-18.09.2010    KIDS/DISA   20vols
Thuy An Orphanage was founded in 1979 with the aim to provide good shelter and care for children with disabilities and orphan. 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. 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 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 or staff. [In VPV37-10, volunteers will also help organizing Christmas and New Year Festival for children in the orphanage]
ACCOMMODATION: Shared rooms in project site. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: Thuy An, Ba Vi, Ha Noi.
TERMINAL: 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.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO

Vietnam    VPV 29-10     Saigon Chua La Orphanage    13.09.-25.09.2010    KIDS/EDU   20vols
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 HCM 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, with most of them coming from the surrounding countryside in the South and have had a difficult life. Children have had 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.
WORK: 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.
ACCOMMODATION: VPV's Dormitory in Saigon. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: District 12, Ho Chi Minh City (or Sai Gon - southern part of Vietnam).
TERMINAL: Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN)
QUALIFICATION: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation
LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO

Vietnam    VPV 31-10     Saigon Ky Quang Orphanage     04.10.-16.10.2010    KIDS/DISA   20vols
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.
WORK: 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.
ACCOMMODATION: VPV's Dormitory in Saigon. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: District 12, Ho Chi Minh City (or Sai Gon - southern part of Vietnam).
TERMINAL: Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN)
QUALIFICATIONS: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation
LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO

Vietnam    VPV 30-10      Hanoi 1,000 Years Festival     04.10.-16.10.2010    SOCI/FEST   20vols
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 10 October 2010 but many activities will be organized during the year 2010, especially in the first week of October. Along with those events, VPV plans to organize an international workcamp to help local government in preparing for the festival before and even after the event.
WORK: Volunteers will help cleaning the site, setting up stages for performance, setting up an exchange sessions with discussion with local young people about Hanoi and different capital cities around the world.
ACCOMMODATION: VPV's Peace House with modest condition. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: Tay Mo, Tu Liem, Hanoi Capital (western end of the city).
TERMINAL: Hanoi Airport, 1 hour drive.
QUALIFICATIONS: Interest and motivation working with social issues
LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO

Vietnam    VPV 32-10      Thuy An Orphanage    18.10.-30.10.2010    KIDS/DISA   20vols
Thuy An Orphanage was founded in 1979 with the aim to provide good shelter and care for children with disabilities and orphan. 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. 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 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 or staff. [In VPV37-10, volunteers will also help organizing Christmas and New Year Festival for children in the orphanage]
ACCOMMODATION: Shared rooms in project site. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: Thuy An, Ba Vi, Ha Noi.
TERMINAL: 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.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO

Vietnam    VPV 33-10    Vietnam Friendship Village    01.11.-13.11.2010    KIDS/DISA   20vols
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 fund for the village.
WORK: 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.
ACCOMMODATION: VPV's Peace House with modest condition. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: Tay Mo, Tu Liem, Hanoi Capital (western end of the city).
TERMINAL: Hanoi Airport, 1 hour drive.
QUALIFICATIONS: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation
LEISURE ACTIVITIESA: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
EXTRA FEE: 170EURO

Vietnam    VPV 34-10      Saigon Volunteer Festival     22.11.-05.12.2010    SOCI/FEST/CULT   20vols
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 (1 December), the International Volunteer Day (3 December) and the Day for People with Disabilities (5 December). The event will take place in the wide public in Ho Chi Minh City 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.
WORK: Volunteers will 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 discussion with university students on the themes above.
ACCOMMODATION: VPV's Peace House with modest condition. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City.
TERMINAL: Hanoi Airport, 1 hour drive.
QUALIFICATIONS: Interest and motivation working with social issues
LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO

Vietnam    VPV 35-10      Hanoi Volunteer Festival     29.11.-11.12.2010    SOCI/FEST/CULT   20vols
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 (1 December), the International Volunteer Day (3 December) and the Day for People with Disabilities (5 December). 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.
WORK: 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 discussion with university students on the themes above.
ACCOMMODATION: VPV's Peace House with modest condition. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: Tay Mo, Tu Liem, Hanoi Capital (western end of the city).
TERMINAL: Hanoi Airport, 1 hour drive.
QUALIFICATIONS: Interest and motivation working with social issues
LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO

Vietnam    VPV 36-10      Saigon Chua La Orphanage    13.12.-25.12.2010    KIDS/EDU   20vols
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 HCM 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, with most of them coming from the surrounding countryside in the South and have had a difficult life. Children have had 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.
WORK: 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.
ACCOMMODATION: VPV's Dormitory in Saigon. Shared rooms. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: District 12, Ho Chi Minh City (or Sai Gon - southern part of Vietnam).
TERMINAL: Tan Son Nhat Airport (SGN)
QUALIFICATION: Interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation
LEISURE ACTIVITIES: Vietnamese Day, International Day, self-organized city tour and excursions, etc.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO

Vietnam    VPV 37-10      Thuy An Orphanage    20.12.-31.12.2010    KIDS/DISA   15vols
Thuy An Orphanage was founded in 1979 with the aim to provide good shelter and care for children with disabilities and orphan. 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. 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 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 or staff. [In VPV37-10, volunteers will also help organizing Christmas and New Year Festival for children in the orphanage]
ACCOMMODATION: Shared rooms in project site. Sleeping on floor. Showers and toilets available. Food prepared by vols with support from local people.
LOCATION: Thuy An, Ba Vi, Ha Noi.
TERMINAL: 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.
EXTRA FEE: 170 EURO