🏢 About the local organisation
Volunteers for Peace Vietnam (VPV) is a non-profit, voluntary organization founded in 2005 with the aim to promote voluntary service as a means of cultural and educational exchange among people to generate peace and friendship, and as an approach to address social issues. Vision: VPV’s vision is a world of peace, where all people live together with mutual respect, have equal opportunities to develop to their full potential and have respect for the environment.
“Young Skill-up” is one of VPV’s programs aiming at empowering local youth by equiping them with necessary knowledge and skills in the globalized world. The idea of this project is to create an environment for international volunteers to share their expertise in various fields, using non-formal education methods, with local youth.
💼 What the programme involves
Project details:
- Host and organizer: VPV
- Facilitators/ trainers: international volunteers
- Target group: Vietnamese young people (between 15 to 22) with limited chances to access similar learning opportunities with international volunteers
- Activity format: interactive workshops or similar formats with non-formal education methods
- Topic: depending on international volunteers’ expertise. In general, topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
+Arts (vocal or choir training, painting, dancing, handicraft, architecture, etc.)
+Physical trainings (yoga, meditation, workout, etc.)
+Office skills (presentation, writing official emails, mastering word and excel, designing CVs, using design tools, etc.)
+Self-development skills (critical thinking, facilitation, debating, interculural learning, etc.)
+Social academic knowledge (climate change, global challenges, cultures, history, etc.)
+Others (sign language, public speaking, photography, making videos, massage therapy, etc.)
- International volunteers’ length of stay: from 1 to 2 weeks. Depending on the length of stay, volunteers can design the workshops and number of activities accordingly.
Note:
- For those who stay longer than one week, the workshops can be designed as short term courses with different modules.
- Duration of a workshop is from 2 hours to 4 hours depending on the content that volunteers offer.
- The number of participants varies, 5 at least and 30 at most.
- Working time for volunteers are mainly in the evenings as Vietnamese young people go to school in the daytime. Volunteers can use the time during the day to prepare for the workshops. When it is needed, one or two workshops can be organized during the day time but the number participants will be a little less.
⚠️ Requirements
Volunteers’ requirement:
- Have knowledge, skills and/or experiences, expertise, qualifications in the fields and topics that they want to organize workshops on.
- Have a good command of English
- Have good communication skills
- Be willing to share and be flexible with the working hours
An interview with the international volunteers may be conducted by VPV prior to volunteers’ arrival.