📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Suvarnnabhumi means "Golden Land" in the Buddhist scriptures referring to the kingdom of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand
Beginning of 2017, the collaboration of Suvarnnabhumi project has been established starting from Cambodian Youth Action (CYA) and Volunteer Spirit Association (VSA Thailand) build up the Bridge of Suvarnnabhumi voluntary project focusing on Education and Culture theme.
Suvarnnabhumi 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 volunteers 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!
💼 What the programme involves
2 months program start from Thailand to Cambodia
Suvarnnabhumi project start 1st of every month in Thailand continue the 2nd month in Cambodia.
1st – 5th of first month Arrival in Thailand and Orientation
6th – 29th of first month Participating in voluntary project in Thailand
30th of first month Evaluation with VSA
1st – 29th of second month Participating in voluntary project in Cambodia
30th of second month Evaluation with CYA
Volunteers need to participate in full time in 2 countries.
Peace Village in Thailand
Give primary Thai students have the big chance to communication with the foreigner. Destroy shyness from them and let them used to foreigner even now not only English is important to be in the world. Education camp is the most wanted from Thai people when thinking of cultural diversity. After many camps have done in the primary schools. The students are getting use to with the foreigners and some dare to speak out. We need to keep continuing their chance to meet and share with international volunteers as their improvement. We hope one day the students from the rural area will have more confident to speak English and face to foreigners, also more understanding in cultural diversity similar as the students in the big city. No more knowledge gap!Cultural Diversity
Base on International community living, every work is coming by daily life. That is mean everything even generally is valuable in any case such as cleaning, repairing, building, teaching, learning.
Segregation works at Peace Village are;
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 is given the chance for people in the village or the place nearby have opportunity to communicate with difference language, touch difference culture, believing.
School Renovation – As we are new center now we also need volunteer as first generation to set up the center as when they have spare time from main work. We are going to build Toilet, kitchen, dormitory for more volunteers, meeting area. There are villagers help and teach how to build. This is a good way to learn Thai way of construct.
Relationship with the villagers – The rest of time form your main work, important thing is to learn and share with the villager by visiting, talking and do activities with them you will get rich experience by learning and sharing from each other.
Cambodia
Organic Farm – learning how to produce our own non-chemical food and vegetable.
WHAT VOLUNTEERS WILL DO?
• Education: organizing the students with 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 sustainable development project
• Environment: conducting the workshop on raising awareness of environmental protection, rubbish, trash management system to be introduced in the community
🏠 Accommodation on site
In Thailand
Accommodation and food Volunteer will stay with host family in small village, using wi-fi at the school. Volunteer expect to eat Thai food with host family and lunch at the school
Cambodia
Accommodation
The volunteers are going to stay in Angkor Voluntary House which is a guesthouse providing a proper facility for the volunteers which is bed with mattresses, fan, pillows and blanket. There is a shower room and toilet in each room provided. The food will be prepared by the staff, but we are asked to make the washing by ourselves. There is wifi provided, but limited of data usage. There is a local market just in front of the accommodation, some restaurants with various types of food, where you can find easy access to enjoy your daily free time.
📍 About the location
Thailand
Location Ban Krok Luk Dankhonthod District, Nakorn Ratchasima Thailand.
Cambodia
Location SIEM REAP, Cambodia