Exchanging culture and supporting teaching a language to university or college students

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Vietnam Education Social work Study Education Social work +1 Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

SJ Vietnam is an international youth NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) that promotes values of solidarity, peace and tolerance through youth citizenship projects to improve society during and after the voluntarism. It was set up in 2004 by international and Vietnamese young volunteers. SJ Vietnam is an independent Vietnamese branch of SJ France, a full member of CCVIS (UNESCO) and NVDA, a partner of YAP and Alliance. SJ Vietnam is an independent, non-political and non-religious organization open to everybody without any distinction of nationality, race, education or sex.

💼 What the programme involves

The role of the university is to prepare students for their professional future life and career. In today’s globalized world and modern societies, English speaking is extremely important in developing a country like Vietnam. The issue is that, even though Vietnamese students spend 6-7 years learning English, they still cannot speak and communicate in English. Because of the traditional teaching methods, they can only write grammatical sentences, while their oral skills are very bad. With this project, SJ Vietnam helps university and college students to improve their speaking/oral skills interacting with foreign volunteers and helps them to open their mind by learning from different cultures. Our international volunteers have a real impact and encourage Vietnamese students to pursue their dreams and to participate in the development of Vietnam (through tourism and business, and the development of a qualified Vietnamese workforce).

*Your work: Help students improve their English skills as a mentor, work together with the local staffs and cooperate with humanitarian aid service and non-profit organizations to organize social activities for students (such as charity/voluntary work in the community, fundraise for those activities, etc.)

🏠 Accommodation on site

The college/university will provide simple accommodation. Meals are served at the canteen of the project site and vegetarian catering is possible.

📍 About the location

Ben Tre is on the south of Vietnam and belongs to Mekong Delta. The Mekong Delta is a network of distributaries in southwestern Vietnam, between Ho Chi Minh City and Cambodia. The river itself starts in the Himalayas and passes through China, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia before reaching Vietnam, which partly explains why the waters are so murky. More than half of Vietnam’s rice and fish comes from the delta region. It’s vital to the Vietnamese economy and diet. Life in the area revolves around water, from the famous floating markets to the vast agricultural industries. An amazing variety of fruits, flowers and livestock grow in the region. The Mekong River Delta is the rice basket of Vietnam, providing the sustenance for millions.

🎒 Leisure activities

1. Make a boat cruise through small canals The best way to explore the beauty and uniqueness of Mekong Delta is by a boat cruise on waterways. Remember that Mekong River includes a complex system of channels. From the boat, it is quite surprising to feast your eyes on stunning sights of green/yellow rice paddies, lush orchards, lines of coconut trees and quiet stilt houses. While immersing in a scenic boat trip through this immense delta, you will not only discover the bustling colors of floating markets, but also experience the traditional lifestyle around the Mekong River as well as take a close glimpse at rural Vietnam. 2. Floating market You can visit one of the floating markets by our tour on the motorized boat, and then spread their eyes on the panorama of people exchanging goods, fruits and other commodities on vessels. The busy vibe and noisy atmosphere of these markets start as early as 3 AM morning. To help other buyers notice and realize their goods, traders are likely to suspend a sample of what they’re selling from the top of a pole.

3. Can Tho

Can Tho is the biggest city in the Mekong Delta region and home to the Cai Rang floating market, which really is an amazing sight. There are hundreds of boats packed with more varieties of fruits than you ever thought possible, and a dazzling assortment of flowers. Although Can Tho is a large, somewhat industrialized city, it also serves as the cultural center for the surrounding rural areas. The nice thing about this city is you can get the best of both worlds: comfortable accommodations in the city center, with easy day trips available to head out and see the picturesque agricultural communities.

⚠️ Requirements

water-resistant clothes, raincoat, laptop, computer equipment and pictures of your country.

Volunteers with Bachelor degree in fields of Social Science, Social Administration, Social Planning and Development, international relations, public relations, development studies or equivalent are preferred.

ℹ️ Additional information

Our holidays

01st Jan 2022: New Year

29th Jan 2022 to 6thFeb 2022: Vietnamese traditional New Year

02nd April and 03rd April 2022: Hung King ancestor ceremony

30th April and 1st May, 2022: National reunification day and international labor day

2nd Sept 2022: Independence Day

We are NOT going to have projects these days.
Therefore, kindly keep your eyes on this and inform your volunteers before sending. During the time, our volunteers working in the period would have holidays as well."

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