📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Nghia Tan Primary School is located in Cau Giay district, Hanoi, which is about 8km from the Old Quarters. It is a public school with over 1,000 students between 6-11 years old. The children and their teachers would like to meet foreigners to practice English or French and improve communication skills. The school have received great support of the government in terms of infrastructure but there is still a big need for language teaching support from international volunteers.
The aim of the project is to provide English/French language speaking environment for children to practice and improve their confidence in using a foreign language in communication.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will be expected to help with the following:
- Improving listening/speaking skills for children
- Improving pronunciation for children
- Organizing games and other activities in classrooms
- Assisting local teachers in managing the classes.
- Normally volunteers will teach about 20 hours a week. No placements in summer (June – July - August). Volunteers will work with a local teacher but sometimes volunteers will be given chances to manage the classes on their own.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in a dormitory with rooms shared with other volunteers. Living conditions will be Vietnamese standard with shared bathroom, shared room with bunkbeds. Mattress, blanket, pillow and mosquito net are provided.
Food will be provided at accommodation everyday except Saturday. Meals will be mostly local food, which vary from the daily cooking schedule. Volunteers, especially those who are vegetarian may be required to do some cooking by themselves. Sometimes, food is provided by the host project during workdays.
📍 About the location
Address: No.14 To Hieu street, Cau Giay district, Hanoi. It is approximate 8 kms far away from city center.
Travel to work from volunteer accommodation: about 30 minutes walking.
⚠️ Requirements
- Volunteers should like to work with children, maturity and initiative spirit.
- Fluent English/ French
- Age: 18 and over.
- Be open-minded and sociable.
- Be willing to learn more about the country and adapt to different and working style in Vietnam.
- Extra fee: 430 EUR for the first 2 weeks, 115 EUR for every extra week