ROY WAN-2

As a short term volunteer in this long term project, you are expected to join activities going on together with the host (Pi Ju’s family), villagers and long term volunteers. You will have the opportunity to learn way of agricultural self-sufficiency by taking part in the everyday routine (working in the vegetables gardens), making compost from natural materials, cultivating seeds in a nursery and planting the ready-to-grown ones out around school area. Saturday activities with kids at the project site. Kids from the village and nearby will gather at the project site to do activities with the volunteers. About 20-50 children come every week-end to spend time at the school. The volunteers decide together how the school days are spent. The opportunities are endless: teaching different subjects such as Basic English, art, agriculture, games… The kids vary in age; the youngest ones are approximately 7, and the oldest about 20. This is never a problem. They like to participate in activities together. If you know any activities worth arranging for the kids from your country or any teaching ideas, please bring supplies you may need with you. Activities with kids at Lang Hai Mee school, grade 1 to grade 3 ( between 8 and 10 students per class) a small school in an isolated area, about 10 km from the project site. The teachers, part of the royal police, were volunteers to come to teach in this remote area. They are very nice and helpful. One of them can speak quite good English. They will let you organize activities for few periods in each class. You can decide together about the subject you want to teach, English of course in a creative way, art, Math, sport, culture sharing, games, etc. Remember that you will have to deal with language barrier and you won't have a translator (teachers can join sometimes). So, the instruction needs to be very easy, use body language, pictures, examples... The host, P Ju have very tight relationships with the local community of Lang Hai Mee as they were fighting for human rights together. The village is situated in an area that has been announced as national park 25 years ago. Nowadays, they have still difficulty to make the government admit that they were living here before and need plantations to make a living. P Ju and neighboring communities started some common environmental project and forest preservation to show that they can take care of nature by themselves such as agreement of no use of chemical, planting trees on the river bank, planting more food crops, etc. AIMS OF PROJECT To support Roy Wan Pan Pba project To build a good relationship between volunteers and local people To let children be familiar with volunteers and learn in international/multi-cultural atmosphere