Experiencing culture with ethnic people in Buoc village

Name: Experiencing culture with ethnic people in Buoc village
Start: 2020-06-16
End: 2020-06-27
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam

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Vietnam Environment Children Renovation Teenagers Environment Children +2 Fixed dates

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 SVI, 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

In the workcamp, volunteers will be divided into small teams to do different tasks including: - Organizing activities for children - Create a friendly environment - Help locals understand the importance of protecting the environment - Some environmental activities, like gardening, building a bamboo fence, planting trees - Working with local communication volunteers to update your activities at the project site on SJ Vietnam’s websites and on ICT Life’s online newspaper through reports, pictures, videos,…

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will stay in a traditional bamboo house in the BUOC-village, western toilets and bathroom are available. The village will provide meals for volunteers. Vietnamese food consists of many varieties and flavors, but if you have any special dietary needs please inform us in advance

📍 About the location

You will have free time during the evenings and the weekends to spend as you please. During those free moments you can travel to discover further wonders of Vietnam!

⚠️ Requirements

The total fee is 5,500,000 VND/participant which includes transportation at the project site, food, basic accommodation and materials for the project. The transportation to get to the project site is not included. Volunteers will pay their participation fee directly to SJ Vietnam account at least 2 weeks before their arrival in Vietnam. Volunteers must send a scanned copy of the receipt to SJ Vietnam to inform that they have transferred money. If they want to pay on arrival, they will be charged 300,000 VND more plus the fee. For another way of your payment, please contact your sending organization to confirm us. Participation fee enables SJ Vietnam to take care of the volunteers during their stay and to fund projects. Volunteers’ activities in the evenings or on the weekends are on their own expense

Participation fees: 5.500 000 VND

5.800 000 VND (if the participant wants to pay on arrival)

ℹ️ Additional information

Volunteers should bring: a sleeping bag, a mosquito spray, basic pharmacy kit, small gifts from your country, craft materials for your project, if possible, electricity adaptor to charge your electricity equipment. At the project site there is no internet.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

SJV2003 Mai Chau

16/06/2020 → 27/06/2020

Closed

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

17–80 years old

Solidarity donation

5500000.00 VND ≈ 192 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Hanoi, Vietnam

Vietnam

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Viet Nam Dong (VND / ₫)

Exchange rate

1 VND = 0.000035 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Indochina Time

Local time: 21:59 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Vietnamese