Khoksalung Village

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Thailand Farming Culture Children Farming Culture +1 Permanent

About the project

Khoksalung Village

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Dalaa.

💼 What the programme involves

Would you join the local Craft Products and agro- tourism lifestyle of Thai Bueng community? We have 25 years of experience and dedication of activities for kids and newcomers. You will participate in the community-based tourism and join local crafts production like weaving and organic agriculture in the very safe, warm and beautiful environment of the village. You would be welcome to support English teaching as a communication tool for locals.

AIMS of the Placement
• Enhance culture exchange between volunteers and Thai Bueng community.
• Support the Community-based tourism to preserve the local way of life and economic stability.
• Support organic self sufficient agriculture through active participation of the volunteers
• Manage our team daily life in a meaningful and respectful way. (Thriving through Authenticity, Responsibility and Inclusion as the image of a harmonious global community we wish for)

WORK AND ACTIVITIES
• Prepare work shops to welcome the tourists.
• Agriculture in the communities garden
• Teaching English for children and local people.
• Activities with kids such as games , art , sport

🏠 Accommodation on site

- We will cook and live together. There is the family restaurant, a coffee shop and a big house for the volunteers with simple conditions. - We will provide sleeping material like a small mattress, pillows and a mosquito net. - If you have special needs, please inform us in advance.

📍 About the location

Thai Bueng community, Khoksalung village (subdistrict), Pathana Mikhom district, Lopburi province is a a big Buddhist community, with more than 3,000 houses and about 10,000 people. Most of us have extended families and
many relatives around us. There are 5 temples, 4 primary Schools and 1 high School. The village is surrounded by a big dam named Pasak Chonlasit Dam.
We still preserve and revive our traditional culture through a respectful community -based tourism welcoming outsiders. Our team has worked in the village for over 25 years on these issues. We emphasize local wisdom to develop new quality products. Our main skills and tools are weaving, nature color dying, agriculture and inland fishery. We use quality communication, the so-called “Dialogue” between all the actors, After Action Review (AAR) to constantly improve and
other tools like System Thinking, Networking and Strategy within our team and with outside stakeholders. We organize regular meaningful activities together with locals including children and outsiders, both Thai and foreigners and would be pleased if the volunteers can teach English for communication both for children and adults interested.

Khoksalung is situated in Lopburi province, about 200 km North of Bangkok” . From Bangkok, there is only one train a day that stopped in Kok Salung village (Nong Kai destination). There are regular mini-vans from Mor
Chit 2 (Northern Bangkok bus station) with destination of Khoksalung - Lopburi”province which takes about 2-3 hours.

🎒 Leisure activities

- There are events and activities in the village almost every day and in other provinces occasionally. Most locals cannot speak English but Mint can translate for international volunteers.

⚠️ Requirements

• Volunteers should be ready to adapt to the Thai, local way of life, and willing to create relationships with volunteers’ friends, hosts and local people. Some difficult points could be the language and culture barrier, mosquitoes and insects, eating rice at every meal, , missing feedback, changing plans often. • Volunteers should be able to stay in a remote environment, without public transport. • Volunteers should be able to take responsibility for themselves and the team by taking care of their health and security and be fully involved in the daily tasks.

ℹ️ Additional information

The fee for a 2-month service is 24,000 Baht, approx. 615 Euro (36 000 Baht for 3 months). From the fourth month on the fee will be 10,000 per month. The fee will be used on one part for living expenses (gas, water, electricity,
food) and materials used in projects/activities and for the other part to support financially our organization. Volunteers’ fee is our only income.

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