Lighting our children's tomorrow by English communications today

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Vietnam Education Children Social work Education Children +1 Permanent

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 SJ France, 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.

Most of children in different provinces of Vietnam don’t have the chance to communicate with foreigners regularly. In public schools, they just have one or two English lessons per week. Children are the future of Vietnam, who will lead and develop the country in the future. Therefore, SJ Vietnam would like to call on volunteers to join this significant project to widen English knowledge and English spoken of children in our local community. Please join the project "Lighting our children's tomorrow by interacting English with them today" and make change – interact with children and encourage them to speak out their mind, their ideas in English!

💼 What the programme involves

Teach English, organize leisure and outdoor activities for children, guide them how to use computer, prepare performances with the children for special events and encourage them to speak English by active daily communication.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Stay in a host family or teacher’s house with basic conditions. Depending on the location, volunteers will have different choices: - Meals at local restaurants - Meats are served by hosting family - Cooking by ourselves at the hosting family house

📍 About the location

You have 2 days off per week. Mostly during the weekend, unless there are specials events in your working place. Bicycle will be provided when volunteers arrive. Hai Phong is a major industrial city and the second largest city in the northern part of Vietnam. Hai Phong is also the center of technology, economy, culture, medicine, education, science and trade in the northern coast of Vietnam. Furthermore, it is the third largest city in Vietnam in terms of urban population (with an population of 2,190,788 in 2016). There are lots of things to do in Hai Phong like : - Visit Bao Dai Villa which was the summer palace of Bao Dai, Vietnam’s last emperor. - Go to Cat Ba Island. It is located about 50km to the east of Hai Phong and is the largest and most frequented of the 366 islands in Lan Ha and Ha Long bays. - See Du Hang Buddhist Temple. It was established in the 17th century under the Ly Dynasty and went through several reconstructions over the years...

⚠️ Requirements

Water-resistant clothes, raincoat , laptop and some pictures of your country or hometown. Volunteers should be enthusiastic, patient, optimistic, creative and full of energy and ready to work with children with different levels of English skills.

ℹ️ Additional information

Our holidays

01st Jan 2022: New Year

29th Jan 2022 to 6thFeb 2022: Vietnamese traditional New Year

02nd April and 03rd April 2022: Hung King ancestor ceremony

30th April and 1st May, 2022: National reunification day and international labor day

2nd Sept 2022: Independence Day

We are NOT going to have projects these days.
Therefore, kindly keep your eyes on this and inform your volunteers before sending. During the time, our volunteers working in the period would have holidays as well."