🏢 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.
An example of a schedule of a one-week stay is described as follows:
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Morning Orientation for volunteers Preparation for workshops Preparation for workshops or
free time
Preparation for workshops or
free time
Preparation for workshops or
free time
ℹ️ Additional information
The program fee is 250USD/person for 1 week and 400USD/person for 2 weeks. This is to cover the pick-up service, orientation, board and lodging, workshop preparation and facilitation, and regular support from the local team.