Na Nai Kong Farm

Name: Na Nai Kong Farm
Start: 2022-01-12
End: 2027-10-12
Location: Thailand

Code: 439e2422d4a64fabafa9f780df7587da Copied

Thailand Farming Children Manual work Farming Children +1 Permanent

About the project

Na Nai Kong Farm

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Mr. Kong is a hardworking, creative and organic original farmer and has been back home working for a few years on his big family land on rice fields and sugar palm trees. Recently, he added a melon farm and a nice restaurant with his wife.

He has developed a kind of local friendly agrotourism and is an example of a sufficiency lifestyle. He has a big network of artist friends.
They invited us to support the wish of Mr. Kong to take increasing responsibility in the society’s well-being by inviting children and local youth as well as outsider volunteers to his farm.

AIMS of the Placement
- To support the social development aspects of Na Nai Kong farm (opening to local children, youth and outsider volunteers)
- To get to know each others with the local community
- To work on the building of the clay house that will be welcoming volunteers and social activists
- To grow in authenticity, responsibility and inclusion values
- Managing our daily life: cooking, cleaning, harmonious relationships and not being a burden for the host

💼 What the programme involves

Clay house construction. Get ready to be dirty! Organic agriculture: compost, seedling, planting, caring, Area and local culture discovery
Put your hands and feet in the mud, to produce organic rice, fruit and vegetables, clay house building and activities with kids at “Mr Kong rice field ” first dedicated to agro-tourism and sufficiency lifestyle, it moves its objectives toward a youngster center thanks to its close link with the artists and activist volunteer world.

🏠 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.
Les volontaires cuisineront et vivront ensemble

🍲 Food

📍 About the location

The main host is named P Kong, volunteers stay in his home at Ban Pak Kroot village. It is situated 4 km north from Ranot, a district town of Songkhla province, about 2 hours drive from Hatyai.

⚠️ 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

Participation fees:
- 3 first months: 12,000 Baht per month
- 3rdmonth onward : 10,000 Baht/month
Remarks:
- Transportation is used only in case that you have to come to KokRiang for meeting.
- If there’s some money left from each item, it can be spent on other necessary things. In case you would like to buy anything else for the project, please find agreement between the team members, then consult with your coordinator and inform A, our financial person to request for extra budget.
In case you need to leave the project site with your own request, do make sure you pay some money to the villagers or coordinator for gasoline.

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