📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Volunteer for Peace Vietnam - The South Program - International Cultural Youth Exchange
💼 What the programme involves
THEME/TYPE OF PROJECT: Social welfare
AIMS OF THE PROJECT:
Smile Restaurant was inaugurated in Oct 2012 by HCMC Charity Foundation in order to offer special meal with privileged price for poor students, immigrant & local workers in the area of HCMC. The foundation does fundraising to have enough budget, in order to be able to sell a quality meal with the cost of 2000 VND (about less than 10 USD cent).
PROJECT’S ACTIVITIES:
The restaurant located at the central of HCMC. The project also has some new project locations in the nearby are in central part of HCM. Volunteer will involve on a charity project and it help them to understand a part of the life in HCMC where the life is changing very fast and there is a big gap between people in the same city.
To get project, it takes about 30 minutes by bus from home.
Volunteers will involve in project activities in order to make a good meals for poor people. If volunteer has experience on cooking, they can join for the cooking job. In the most cases, volunteers will help for preparing food, washing vegetables, set up the table and other works.
VOLUNTEER’S TASKS:
- Volunteers’ tasks are mainly helping project by preparing food, washing vegetables or set up table.
- When begin opening for buyers, volunteers’ tasks will be likely to bring dishes to eating table and serve.
- After finishing, volunteers would be cleaning the tables, washing dishes…
Working time: 7:30 A.M - 1:30 P.M , from Monday to Friday
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will stay in a dormitory, sharing rooms with volunteers of other nationalities joining the same program. Normally, rooms are arranged with about 2-6 volunteers per room. During peak season, the maximum can go up to 7 or 9 volunteers per room, in 5 bunk beds (9 beds in total). Western toilets and showers are available. Air-conditioner at night time (9PM - 6AM), hot water is also available. The house has TV, PC, free WIFI, fridges, cooking facilities, and a common room & terrace.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are provided at the dorm. Food is typical Vietnamese meal, prepared by a local cook. The main types of food will be rice, meat, fish, and vegetables. For vegetarians, the choice is usually limited to rice, bread, vegetables, egg, and tofu.
During the working day, volunteers will stay at the project site for lunch and for taking a lunch-break.
📍 About the location
The dormitory is located in an urban area of Ho Chi Minh City. It is 5 minutes away from ATMs, two local markets, multiple convenient stores, 20-30 minutes from the nearest supermarket and Banks. Laundry services are 3 minutes away, and cost $0.50 to $1.00 per kilogram. Various choices of restaurants ranging from BBQs, Vietnamese local foods, to other foreign foods such as Korean foods, or Thailand foods. Bowling alleys and Karaoke stores available within 2 kilometers radius.
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers must be 18 years old or more. Volunteers should have motivation to work on this project: Hard working, enthusiasm or pay attention. If volunteers has experience on cooking or was chef, they are very welcomed to join in on the cooking activities.