📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Hanoi HighTech Vocational College is located Tay Mo commune, Tu Liem District, about 15 km from Hanoi city centre. One of the increasing labour market requirements is the foreign language skills (English, Japanese, Korean) and usually this sector of the population have a very little chance to learn foreign languages or to meet foreigners to practice English and exchange communication skills.
Hanoi HighTech Vocational College has over 2,000 students from 18 to 21 years old. The main purpose is to provide multi-level vocational services of high quality to meet the labour demands, equipping students with effective and practical professional skills related on computer repairing, computer programming, metal works and accounting, in different levels of professionalism. The College also provides communicative English skills in order to meet the high demand of the society in the integration process, especially with the labour export market.
The aim of the project is to provide English language speaking environment for the students to practice and improve their confidence in using a foreign language in communication.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will be expected to help with the followings:
- Improving listening and speaking skills for students.
- Improving students' competency in communication.
- Teaching students following the university's curriculum.
- Organizing games and other activities in classrooms or outdoor in more flexible classes.
Normally volunteers will teach about 30 hours a week. No placements available in summer time (June – July- August).
Each class has one local English-teacher with 30 to 40 students, depending on the class. Each period lasts for 45 minutes.
The volunteer participates in different classes per day, working from Monday to Friday. The general time frame at school is from 7:50 to 17:20. The lunch break is between 11:15 and 1:05 o'clock. Depending on volunteers' schedule, he/she has different beginning and ending time.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in a dormitory with rooms shared with other volunteers. Living conditions will be Vietnamese standard with shared bathroom, shared room with bunkbeds. Mattress, blanket, pillow and mosquito net are provided.
Food will be provided at accommodation everyday except Saturday. Meals will be mostly local food, which vary from the daily cooking schedule. Volunteers, especially those who are vegetarian may be required to do some cooking by themselves. Sometimes, food is provided by the host project during workdays.
📍 About the location
Address: Tay Mo, Nam Tu Liem, Hanoi.
Travel to work from volunteer accommodation: about 1 hour by bus.
⚠️ Requirements
- Volunteers should like to work with children, maturity and initiative spirit.
- Fluent English/ French
- Age: 18 and over.
- Be open-minded and sociable.
- Be willing to learn more about the country and adapt to different and working style in Vietnam.
- Extra fee: 430 EUR for the first 2 weeks, 115 EUR for every extra week