Roy Wan Pan Pba

As part of the team, volunteers share great support to the local project to help keep the school and its landscape in good order. They are helping to take care of vegetable garden, compost making, tree nursery and seeds collection. One of the school plans concerning the campaign of agricultural self-sufficiency is that people need no buying food from a market but to grow or to raise whatever edible and make it into meals for their families. On Saturdays, village kids gather at the project site to do activities with volunteers. Volunteers decide together how to organize the Saturday’s activities. The opportunities are endless: basic English, art, sport, agriculture, culture sharing, games. It is nice if you can prepare ideas and material if needed before coming. Remember that you will have to deal with language barrier and you won’t always have a translator so the instructions need to be very easy, use body language, pictures, examples...There are usually around 20 kids and vary in age (it can be from 6 to 15). Some understand already a bit of English, they can assist you. Volunteers also teach at Lang Hai Mee school (usually 2 days a week). This is a small school in an isolated area, about 10 km from Roy Wan project site with only grade 1 to grade 3 classes ( between 8 and 10 students per class) The teachers, part of the royal police, were volunteers to come to teach in this remote area. They are very nice and helpful, one can speak quite good English. They will let you organize activities for few periods in each class. The host, P Ju have very close 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 common environmental project and forest preservation to show that they can take care of nature by themselves. (agreement of no use of chemical, planting trees on the river bank, planting more food crops...). In everyday life, apart from main tasks, you are also expected to help with the family’s daily tasks which are helping preparing meals for family members, washing dishes, watering plants in dry season, and keeping the house area, kitchen, coffee-tea table, bathrooms and restrooms tidy and clean. Moreover, you can spend some time after work with villagers in the village when you’re not very tired from your main tasks. AIMS OF PROJECT To support Roy Wan Pan Pba project To experience and support food autonomy, alternative education and environment preservation To build good relationship between volunteers and local people. To let children be familiar with volunteers and learn in international/multi-cultural atmosphere