Wae Daunt
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About the project
Wae Daunt
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
COM started aware of the global international voluntary exchange in 2008 in Vietnam and in 2012 participated the NVDA GA meeting in India. The first international volunteer workcamp was co-organized with NICE-Japan in October 2012 in Sobawte Village in Kayah state, Myanmar. The workcamps has been completed with volunteers from 15 countries including Myanmar, Asia, US and Europe. We finished 35 workcamps and recruit 310 volunteers until September 2016.
💼 What the programme involves
The local leader is working for Myanmar Red Cross Society and also a training alumnus of COM leadership political Awareness Training. COM co-organized together with local leader since 2014. This is second international workcamp. The local community didn’t have experience of hosting foreigners before workcamp started. The local young people also need to improve their knowledge on globalization, English proficiency and cultural exchange. It is also need to educate agriculture and environmental awareness to the local community. The landscape is surrounded with farms. The area is peaceful and calm area. MPT and Telenor SIM card available in the village.
The volunteers participate in the village by helping to the local community in their field of work. They will also work in cleaning and cooking by themselves. Sharing knowledge to the local community included in the work. There is planting, harvesting paddy, picking fruit and bean, digging mud and other farms work are included. The farm work may change based on weather. Teaching with the children from grade 5 to 7 is also included.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The host will arrange accommodation for volunteers. The sleeping area for girls and boys will be separated. In the project from monastery will provide pillow, bed sheet and mosquitoes net for volunteers.
* Volunteers should bring medicine especially for diarrhea, flu and fever and personal use.
* Volunteers may need to bring toilet paper since in Myanmar toilets, people use not paper, but water! But volunteers are also welcome to try a local way that can be more comfortable if they are getting used to it.
🍲 Food
The host provided three meals a day and all the meal are rice, salad, fried fish and some local food. Tap water is not drinkable and purified water will be provided to the volunteers. The vegetables are fresh from nature and many appetizers but some local food may oily and salty.
There will be meat only at the local market which happens once in every five days. We also prepare coffee and some local fruit sometimes.
🎒 Leisure activities
Myanmar has many pagodas and each has its own history. In Shan state, the local market is opened once only in 5 days so we can visit there. We can also visit to ancient pagodas nearby village by boat. In the last day on departure, we can visit around Inle Lake.
🤝 Meeting point
Meeting point for all workcamps project will be in the same place in COM office
Transportation for Each Workcamp: Volunteers will leave together with camp leader from Yangon to camp site.
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Wae Daunt
01/11/2017 → 14/11/2017
Wae Daunt
25/10/2018 → 07/11/2018
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
200.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Mawgyun, Myanmar (Burma)
Burma
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Kyat (MMK / K)
Exchange rate
1 MMK = 0.000426 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
🛡️ Before you leave
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