Suvarnabhumi
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About the project
Suvarnabhumi
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Suvarnabhumi means "Golden Land" in the Buddhist scriptures referring to the kingdom of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand where they are various and abundant food and cultures.
Beginning of 2017, the collaboration of Suvarnabhumi project has been established starting from Cambodian Youth Action (CYA) and Volunteer Spirit Association (VSA Thailand) build up the Bridge of Suvarnabhumi voluntary project focusing on Education and Culture theme.
💼 What the programme involves
Education and Culture – The long history of Suvarnabhumi present valuable identities cultural which is the goal of the project. Learning long-lasting culture by non-formal education program in both countries.
The Suvarnabhumi project will implement the HAPPY Model
Help, the volunteer’s main task is to run a project in support of the local community. Volunteers use their time, energy and competencies to help those most in need, while at the same time helping themselves to further develop personally and professionally.
Absorb, the volunteering services will be done in a way to support the learning of the volunteers at a maximum in various personal and professional competencies. While the process will be supported by nature process on non-formal education tools (language learning, mentoring).
Participate, apart from their regular projects (usually service oriented), the volunteers should be engaged in at least one other action or initiative as a manifestation of their active participation in the life of the local community. The hosting organization will support the volunteer in this aspect, selecting an action that fits both the needs of the community and the learning needs of the volunteer.
Promote, the volunteers that do volunteering services in different places are perceived as ambassadors of global change. They are expected to promote both the idea of volunteering as an act of active citizenship and the idea of sustainable global development. This promotion should happen both within the local hosting and the local sending communities, which is why both the hosting and the sending organizations will be responsible to encourage and support the volunteer's efforts in this direction.
Young, it will be taken into consideration from all the people involved in the service that it is a young initiative and it should be designed as one– fitting the interests and learning needs of the young people, being friendly and fun!
Volunteers are expected to work as English teachers in the primary school. They can prepare their lesson by themselves, but the teacher at the school can give the advice (do not expect this point too much even the teachers are also shy to speak out).
Creative teaching English – Creative teaching is important to recognize; teaching certificate does not need for specific quality of volunteer but creative is the one of yours. Aims of creative teaching are giving the chance for a student in the school and people in the village or the place nearby have the opportunity to communicate with different language, touch difference culture, and believing. Teaching Activity is that the volunteer would do the activities base on intercultural and language with the games, songs, storytellings, and dancings. Also, it should focus on communication; listening and speaking.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteer will stay with a local host family.
Nature environment, basic and simple.
Mattress, pillow, and fan are provided.
Thai toilet and bath.
No food and drinks except water in the sleeping area for your care because some animals such as the mouses,
ants, will come to share your food.
Please keep clean and tidy.
Volunteers expect to eat Thai food. A local host family will prepare the food for the volunteer.
🎒 Leisure activities
There are many beautiful tourist attractions in Nakhon Ratchasima province.We would like to recommend Khao Yai National Park and Phimai Historical Park Khao Yai National Park – It is the first national park in Thailand, comprising mixed forest, rainforest, and meadows. Sightseeing on Khao Yai is one of the interesting things to do in Nakhon Ratchasima. There are more than 3,000 kinds of flowers, 250 kinds of birds, and 67 kinds of mammals like elephants, tigers, gibbons, deer, and boars up there.
Phimai Historical Park – The beautiful historical castle is located in Pimai District, Nakhon Ratchasima You can find more information at: http://www.tourismthailand.org/About-Thailand/Destination/NakhonRatchasima
CYA – Global Education Center Siem Reap
CYA – Global Education Center Siem Reap was started in August 2016 as a non-profit education center which aims at providing free alternative education for children and teenagers, providing local youth and local people chances to learn languages, computer, and to have access to global education/information through internet and our library and to have their first chance to meet and interact with different people from different cultures and backgrounds from around the world. Handicraft center is going to be the next step of development to involve the women in the community having jobs to do besides working in the field and to keep them busy from doing useless things. GEC needs your mental and physical contribution to these foundations; we welcome all motivated individuals for the winter!
At the starting point of setting the Global Education Center, we welcome motivated individuals for supporting us to make it happen for the community children and families for access to global information and the income generation.
What will volunteers do?
Education: organizing the students with a specific topic in English, conducting reading activities in the library, teaching computer skills with the students from the community.
Construction: Renovating the center facilities, building new facilities
Development: supporting the social enterprises at the center for a sustainable development project
Environment: conducting the workshop on raising awareness of environmental protection, rubbish, trash management system to be introduced in the community
🤝 Meeting point
There are 2 ways to get to Nakhon Ratchasima province from Bangkok; bus and train.
Bus – Dan Khun Thot Bus Station, the volunteer can take the bus from Mochit2 Bus Terminal, Bangkok to Dan Khun Thot Bus Station, Nakhon Ratchasima.
Train – Nakhon Ratchasima Train Station, the volunteer can take the train from Bangkok (Hua Lam Pong Train Station) to Nakhon Ratchasima. It will take you to Nakhon Ratchasima approximately 11 – 14 hours.
ℹ️ Additional information
The Suvarnabhumi project starts 1st of every month in Thailand and continues the 2nd month in Cambodia.
1st – 5th of the first-month Arrival in Thailand and Orientation
6th – 29th of first month Participating in the voluntary project in Thailand
30th of first-month Evaluation with VSA
1st – 29th of second month Participating in the voluntary project in Cambodia
30th of second-month Evaluation with CYA
The extra fee is 27,000 Baht a volunteer for 2 months
Every volunteer needs to participate the orientation week at VSA Learning Home on 1st – 5th of month before they are going to work at the project.
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
SVB17
01/11/2019 → 28/02/2020
SVB17
01/06/2019 → 30/09/2019
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
27000.00 THB ≈ 719 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Nakhon Ratchasima, Nai Mueang, Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima District, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand
Thailand
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Thailand Baht (THB / ฿)
Exchange rate
1 THB = 0.026632 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken