INTERACTING WITH DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN
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About the project
INTERACTING WITH DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
SJ Vietnam (Sisterhood of Joy Vietnam) is a non-profit organization that focuses on community development and humanitarian efforts in Vietnam. The organization is dedicated to creating opportunities for volunteers to contribute to meaningful social projects while fostering cultural exchange and learning.
SJ Vietnam typically runs various initiatives aimed at improving the lives of local communities, particularly in underserved areas. These initiatives often focus on education, healthcare, environmental sustainability, and support for vulnerable populations, such as children, the elderly, and marginalized groups.
Volunteers with SJ Vietnam are often involved in activities like teaching English, assisting in orphanages, running healthcare awareness campaigns, organizing community events, and supporting environmental conservation efforts. The organization emphasizes the importance of hands-on engagement and building meaningful relationships with the local community.
In addition to contributing to the local population, SJ Vietnam provides volunteers with the chance to immerse themselves in Vietnamese culture, learn about local traditions, and gain a deeper understanding of social challenges within the country. Volunteers typically come from various countries, adding a dynamic international aspect to the organization's work.
Overall, SJ Vietnam is focused on making a positive impact on the lives of individuals and communities in Vietnam while promoting cultural exchange and international solidarity.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers work in a groupcamp all from one country. Renovate kindergartens (paint, decorate classroom), organize leisure activities for the children and cultural exchange with local people. Organize leisure activities for the children. Cultural exchange with local people. Group camps are short-term projects organized by SJ Vietnam seek to provide an experience that connects solidarity, intercultural learning, and community life to help disadvantaged, street, poor people and blind children, needy children in disabled, old, homeless people for community development and capacity building for our partner’s/target groups. Work camps include international volunteers from different countries and group camps include a Group of volunteers from one nation.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay together in the bamboo house, western toilets and bathroom are available. rs will stay in the Hostel. Food will be cooked by volunteers or served by hostel. Sleeping bag, sleeping mat, prove-water clothes, raincoat, info materials and pictures of your country, toys and learning materials for the children if you have.
🍲 Food
Meals are normally served by the local host
📍 About the location
Thai Hai - Thai Nguyen–about 65 km away from Ha Noi, the capital of Vietnam.
🎒 Leisure activities
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.
🤝 Meeting point
Noi Bai International Airport
ℹ️ Additional information
Open all year, workcamp for one nationality, fee around 3.000.000 - 10.000.000 VND depends on the duration of the groupcamp. Insurance: volunteers have to prepare their own insurance in
advanced. We only accept transfer payment in advanced. At least 2 weeks for work-camp and 1 month for long-term project before projects start.
1st January: New Year
Vietnamese traditional New Year
Hung King ancestor ceremony
National reunification day and
international labor day
2nd September: Independence Day
3,000,000 – 10,000,000 VND/par. Depends on the duration and number of volunteers for Group work camps.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
SJVG-1
08/02/2017 at 00:00 → 31/12/2017 at 00:00
SJVG-1
01/03/2025 at 00:00 → 31/12/2026 at 00:00
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
3000000.00 VND ≈ 105 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Thái Nguyên, Thai Nguyen, 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: 21:35 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken