Traditional lunar new year for minority people in buoc village

Name: Traditional lunar new year for minority people in buoc village
Start: 2023-01-06
End: 2023-01-14
Location: Vietnam

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Vietnam Culture Environment Festival Children Culture Environment +3 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

SJ Vietnam is the sister organization of Service Volontaire International. It is the first and biggest non profit and non governemental youth volunteer organization in Vietnam.

BUOC-village is a small village of Thai-people (an ethnic group came from southern of China) with very pure landscape. As you can see on the above map, this area is placed by only green color and a lot of mountains.
Tết, or Vietnamese New Year, is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. The word is a shortened form of Tết Nguyên Đán, which is Sino-Vietnamese for “Feast of the First Morning of the First Day”. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the Vietnamese variation of the Chinese lunisolar calendar, which usually has the date falling between the months of January or February It takes place from the first day of the first month of the Vietnamese calendar (around late January or early February) until at least the third day.
Many Vietnamese prepare for Tết by cooking special holiday foods and cleaning the house. This food includes Chung cake (bánh chưng), bánh dày, dried young bamboo soup (canh măng), giò and sticky rice. There are a lot of customs practiced during Tết, such as visiting a person’s house on the first day of the new year (xông nhà), ancestral worshipping, wishing New Year’s greetings, giving lucky money to children and elderly people, and opening a shop. Tết is also an occasion for pilgrims and family
reunions. During Tết, Vietnamese visit their relatives and temples, forgetting about the troubles of the past year and hoping for a better upcoming year. They consider Tết to be the first day of spring and the festival is often called Hội xuân (spring festival).

💼 What the programme involves

in the camp, Volunteers will make traditional Chung cakes and prepare special performances and gifts for people at the village

Generally, vols. will work for 5 hours a day, 08:00-11:00 and 14:30-16:30.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will stay in a traditional bamboo house in the BUOC-village, western toilets and bathrooms are available. Internet is very weak around this area

The volunteers will walk to the working place.

🍲 Food

The village will provide meals for volunteers. Vietnamese food consists of many varieties and flavors, but if you have any special dietary needs please inform us in advance.

📍 About the location

30 kilometers from the Mai Chau Town center, and only 4 kilometers from Avana Retreat, The village is inhabited by about 70 Thai families, one of the minorities living in Vietnam.

🎒 Leisure activities

Ban Buoc (Buoc Village) boasts idyllic rice fields dotted with tiny stilt-houses, a hanging bridge, and murmuring streams. It is not the place for hard-core activities, but it’s perfect for biking, leisure hiking, and relaxation

Set in an idyllic valley, surrounded by hills, Buoc Village is famous for its picturesque landscapes. You can discover the hiking trails with the other local and international volunteers.

⚠️ Requirements

Special conditions and responsibilities

• Be able to do manual work. Willing to work and stay in remote area.
• Strong inter-personal skills, and experience in working with a wide variety of people, cultural sensitivity.
• Commitment to volunteerism
• High motivation and come ready to live as the locals do (basic accommodations, transport by bus or bicycle, local food). Be ready to face many difficulties such as language barriers, culture differences, low budgets, etc.
• Be patient and sympathetic with the children
• Follow the rules of the village

🤝 Meeting point

The meeting point is at Noi Bai International Airport (Hanoi Aiport) (Terminal 2) where someone will welcome you there.

All volunteers will be picked up at the airport inside the Arrival A1 (see the picture below) and then move directly to the project site together. Please inform the camp coordinator if you arrive late.

ℹ️ Additional information

In BUOC-village there are four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. But it is possible to divide the climate into two main seasons: the rainy season from May to September (it’s hot, heavy rain), and the dry season is from October to April (it is cold, little rainfall). Please bring clothes according to the season, which should be comfortable clothes, warm clothes and shoes for walking and working, Rain coat and waterproof shoes.

Groups are welcome !!!

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