Peace Village- Songkhla

Name: Peace Village- Songkhla
Start: 2022-10-10
End: 2022-10-22
Location: Songkhla, Thailand

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Thailand Farming Education Renovation Farming Education +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Volunteer Spirit Association (VSA Thailand) is a non-profit (NPO)/non-government (NGO) / Peace organization collaborates international voluntary project for people of all ages, cultures, religious and economic backgrounds.
Our work is based on the belief that learning, sharing, and understanding can reduce any conflicts. We hope it can lead to the last goal that is PEACE.
Vision : Gateway to the global citizen as an International Voluntary Service where you can share friendship and dream with people around the world

💼 What the programme involves

Peace Village Songkhla has been established in 2011, everyone can come to learn in the main aim is learning by doing and international community Living. We can study about each country, nationalities, cultures, etc. in the class but in the real situation is not in the lesson where you can see how the difference of people even they are from the same city. Peace Village is active at the rural area of Songkhla province, Southern of Thailand in the small village. The main occupation is rubber plantation and most of the villagers are Buddhist. Keywords to live at Peace Village; Slow life/ living organic, International.

Volunteer will be divided to work in rural school as English teachers, preparing lessons with the teacher at the school (do not expect this point too much even the teachers are also shy to speak out).
• Creative teaching English – Non-formal education tools can be used for creative teaching; volunteer is not required teaching certificate but requiring to be creative.
• Center renovation – As we have the center, VSA Learning Home, now we also need a volunteer to set up the center as when they have spare time from main work. We are going to clean repair and renovate the center.
• Kitchen Garden – Volunteer will work in the small farm as a kitchen garden. They can renovate and plant some vegetables for making the food in the future.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Participants will stay at Learning Home (Homestay) in Thai style dormitory. Share one big room together, separate male and female. Basic and simple. Mattress, pillow, blanket and fan are provided. Washing clothes by hand. Internet can be used at the school. No internet at Learnign HOME.

🍲 Food

The volunteer will take turn cooking Thai ingredients with Thai coordinator.

📍 About the location

VSA Thailand, Songkhla

🎒 Leisure activities

Pakla Temple, Khlong la Reservior

⚠️ Requirements

• Age over 18 years.
• Ability to communicate in English or full intention to try.
• Friendliness and love to learn new things.
• Adaptable, flexible and open-minded.
• Cultural respect.

🤝 Meeting point

Hatyai Airport, Hatyai train station, Hatyai Bus station

ℹ️ Additional information

9,500 Baht including food, accommodation. Excluding travel cost, insurance and personal expense .
Participation fee will be used for project running, food, accommodation during volunteer project period, administration and organization running. Participation excluded souvenir, personal food, and free time travel expense, and also expense before the project starts and after the project ends.
VSA is not financially supported by government to host projects related to IVS. Hence all projects are self-funded with a participation fee. Giving the remote locations and various complexities, we have tried our best to make it as affordable as possible for volunteers.

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