TEENS: CRAFTING COMMUNITY THROUGH ECO-LIVING

Name: TEENS: CRAFTING COMMUNITY THROUGH ECO-LIVING
Start: 2026-07-25
End: 2026-08-03
Location: Thailand

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Thailand Culture Environment Teenagers Culture Environment +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

DaLaa is a Thailand-based non-profit organisation that promotes long-term community development through international volunteer exchange. Working closely with local communities, DaLaa designs workcamps where youth learn, live, and serve side by side through hands-on projects such as sustainable agriculture, education, cultural preservation, and community resilience. With strong experience in hosting international groups, DaLaa emphasises meaningful participation, shared living, and cultural immersion â creating mutual understanding, cross-cultural friendship, and responsible global citizenship for both the community and participants.

💼 What the programme involves

Programme Highlights & Activities: 1. Eco Farming & Forest Stewardship: Take part in rice replanting in flooding affected fields, cultivate organic vegetables, and join reforestation work by planting seedlings in the forestâlearning through hands-on, nature-based tasks. 2. Community Learning with Local Children: Support activities at the local school through interactive games, simple learning sessions, and cultural exchange with students. 3. Nature Exploration & Conservation-in-Action: Hiking in the forest, explore local ecosystems, and collaborate on small environmental actions such as building a mini river dam. Visits may also include natural sites like waterfalls. 4. Traditional Culture, Food & Heritage Experience: Experience natural dyeing using plant-based colours, learn Northern Thai cooking and desserts, and cultural visit to the Surrounding neighborhood.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Participants will stay in a local homestay in wooden cabins located within the eco-farm, sharing rooms with same- gender participants. Facilities are basic, with beds and mosquito nets provided. There is no hot water in the bathrooms. Meals are prepared together by local residents and volunteers, mainly using farm-grown rice and vegetables, featuring local flavours. Volunteers will take turns assisting with cooking and cleaning, experiencing a simple, eco-friendly lifestyle while building strong bonds and deeper cultural exchange through shared living.

📍 About the location

Activities Outside of Volunteering: Traditional Lanna culture experience: learn local crafts and food traditions such as straw weaving, spice-making and food preservation. Take part in daily community rhythmsâmorning walks, simple temple visits/activities, and communal time with host families and neighbours.

ℹ️ Additional information

Teenagers between 15 - 20 years old who are fit to travel

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📷 Project photos

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📅 Available sessions

VT-0725

25/07/2026 → 03/08/2026

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

15–20 years old

Solidarity donation

400.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Thoen District, Lampang, Thailand

Thailand

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Thailand Baht (THB / ฿)

Exchange rate

1 THB = 0.026632 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

Timezone

Indochina Time

Local time: 21:33 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

Security information

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

Contact form

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English