📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Thu Duc hospital with ISO 9001:2008 is the general hospital which provides responsive and comprehensive healthcare service for people. It has an authorized bed capacity of 800 patients and a daily inpatient average of 3,000 patients. It serves an average of 560000 outpatients per year. There are up to 100 pediatrics who are in desperate need of regular assistance.
During treatment periods, the patients do not have access to formal education and are unable to participate in common leisure activities. The hospital itself is deficient in organizing psychological-care activities for young patients. Pediatric patients have a right to healthy development, both physically and spiritually like anyone else. They also have a desire to communicate, play and, receive knowledge (some children there are quite shy so volunteers need to encourage them to be more confident). Efforts have been made by all doctors and nurses in the hospital to meet the patients’ needs though they often fall short. Furthermore, patient families are often in need of financial aid and help with caring for their relatives there.
💼 What the programme involves
Support their parents and nurses to take care of the kids
Prepare materials and activities for kid such as puppet shows, singing, dancing (1 hour per day)
Repaint the wall with cartoons
Encourage children to be more confident and interact with other children
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stayed in guest-house with 3-4 people in a room with aircon, wifi, washroom european style.
Meals are at the local restaurant.
📍 About the location
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) is Vietnam at its most dizzying: a high-octane city of commerce and culture that has driven the country forward with its pulsating energy. A chaotic whirl, the city breathes life and vitality into all who settle here, and visitors cannot help but be hauled along for the ride.
From the finest of hotels to the cheapest of guesthouses, the classiest of restaurants to the tastiest of street stalls, the choicest of boutiques to the scrum of the markets, HCMC is a city of energy and discovery.
Wander through timeless alleys to incense-infused temples before negotiating chic designer malls beneath sleek 21st-century skyscrapers. The ghosts of the past live on in buildings that one generation ago witnessed a city in turmoil, but now the real beauty of the former Saigon’s urban collage is the seamless blending of these two worlds into one exciting mass.
2 days off at the weekend will be for excursion time of volunteers :)
⚠️ Requirements
Please prepare yourself working with sick-kids. They are cute and annoying at the same time.
ℹ️ Additional information
Fee needs to be transferred at least 2 weeks prior to the camp.