📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Ky Quang Pagoda was built in the early part of the 20th Century in 1924 and is quite famous in Ho Chi Minh City. The pagoda is now a place of charity for unlucky children and also helps treat diseases. Now, the pagoda is taking care and bringing up more than 200 children in the South of Vietnam.The children here have unfortunate backgrounds as many have been abandoned by their parents and relatives. Every few months, the monks find a new baby left in front of the pagoda gate. The head monk sometimes receives phone calls from hospitals requesting him to take in abandoned babies. At the moment, about 200 children are living in the Pagoda, their ages ranging from 5 days old to 40 years old. 90 of these are orphans/ abandoned that are suffering from cerebral palsy, blindness or Down’s syndrome.At present, about 30-40 local children have a chance to study for free at Ky Quang as some local teachers teach Vietnamese for them in the morning.
💼 What the programme involves
Depend on volunteer’s motivation and the need of project, volunteers will be responsible for either taking control of the English class, taking care of the disabled children, or playing with the orphans in the kindergarten. For teaching, Volunteers will spend time with the children and help to improve their English, organize games and other activities for them. Volunteers will also do some manual work such as cleaning, renovation, etc. depend on the need of orphanage/pagoda. There is a possibility that volunteers will be placed in supporting children with disabilities on the disabled children room.
🏠 Accommodation on site
VPV’ Dormitory in Sai Gon. Shared rooms. Sleeping on bunk-bed with mattress. Showers and toilets are available. WIFI free at volunteers’ house. Breakfast and dinner will be prepared by volunteers. Lunch is provided at the project.
📍 About the location
Go Vap district, Ho Chi Minh city (or Sai Gon- Southern part of Vietnam). Vietnamese day, International day, self-organized city tour or excursions, etc.