Lwei Baung
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About the project
Lwei Baung
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
COM is established by local youths since 2005 and registered as a Local Non Government Organization under
Ministry of Home Affairs with number 2058.
Who We Are…
To Promote Democratic Culture and Socio-economic Development in Myanmar
Empowering Youth and Women,
Strengthening Political Institutions,
Raising Political Awareness in the Public,
Participating in the Peace Building Process and
Working for the Development ofRural and Urban Communities.
COM started aware of the global international voluntary exchange in 2008 in Vietnam and in 2012 participated the NVDA GA meeting in India. The first international volunteer workcamp was co-organized with NICE-Japan in October 2012 in Sobawte Village in Kayah state, Myanmar. The workcamps has been completed with volunteers from 15 countries including Myanmar, Asia, US and Europe. We finished 35 workcamps and recruit 310 volunteers until September 2016.
💼 What the programme involves
The first local workcamp was finished by organizing local partner COM and VIP in Baung Yaycho monastery. Baung Yaycho Charity Monastery was built for Pa Oh national development. There are over 120 boy students and they stay the whole year as dormitory in the monastery toattend government high school from the village. The landscape is surrounded by mountains and farms. The area ispeaceful and calm area. There is hardly ever have phone connection at Lwe Baung.
The volunteer participate in the activity of monastery and helping to the local community. They also work in cleaning and cooking by themselves. Teaching English, sharing social knowledge and working in the farm also including in the work. Based on the weather, the outdoors activity could be changed.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The host will arrange accommodation for volunteers. The sleeping area for girls and boys will be separated. In the project from monastery will provide pillow, bed sheet and mosquitoes net for volunteers.
* Volunteers should bring medicine especially for diarrhea, flu and fever and personal use.
* Volunteers may need to bring toilet paper since inMyanmar toilets, people use not paper, but water! But volunteers are also welcome to try a local way that can be more comfortable if they are getting used to it.
* Local freshly food will be provided by organizers but volunteers have to cook with rotation based on project area. Be ready that we don’t have meat like chicken, fish and pork every day. Local people don’t eat meat a lot and we will follow their way. The rice and vegetables are planted in the traditional way.
* Sometimes the local villagers may provide their local snacks and food. You can also bring your food or things from your country to cook for food exchanged.In some project there are over 1000 people in the area but the monastery has their own volunteers and cooking team so volunteers do not need to cook for all.
Shower / Bathing
- There is bathroom but the volunteer can also experience shower together with student with local way
* Bathrooms are mostly opened and volunteers can experience local way of bathing with Myanmar Longgyi.
🍲 Food
The host provided three meals a day and all the meal are rice, salad, fried fish and some local food. Tap water is not drinkable and purified water will be provided to the volunteers. The vegetables are fresh from nature and many appetizers but some local food may oily and salty.
There will be meat only at the local market which happens once in every five days. We also prepare coffee and some local fruit sometimes.
🎒 Leisure activities
Culture day: You are expected to show performance of yourculture (dance, songs, games, etc.) and if possible cook your country’s food in your flexible day with the limited condition and bring traditional clothes if it is not heavy.
Special Event: Farwell party organized by local with their own style. Attention: the schedule may be going to be changed because of the situation of village or nation admission. So, please be ready that some details of working schedule may be changed. Exchange workshop Program: Please bring some knowledge and information about your country or global sharing for local people if possible
Free day spot: Myanmar has many pagodas and each has its own history. In Shan state, the local market is opened once only in 5 days so we can visit there.We can also visit to ancient pagodas nearby village by boat. In the last day on departure, we can visit around Inlay Lake.
🤝 Meeting point
Meeting point for all workcamps project will be in the same place in COM office
Transportation for Each Workcamp: Volunteers will leave together withcamp leader from Yangon to camp site.
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Lwei Baung
25/04/2017 → 08/05/2017
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
200.00 USD ≈ 179 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Myanmar (Burma)
Burma
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Kyat (MMK / K)
Exchange rate
1 MMK = 0.000426 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken