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Help Cambodian children in our schools and foster home

The experience

Our project in Cambodia will have a big impact on your life. You will spend moments with the children, teaching English and doing educational activities related to environmental sustainability in our two cultural centres, foster home and orphanage center. We will work together to provide a better future for our children.
We need motivated, open minded, enthusiastic and patient people, who love children and communities.

What you offer

32 hours of help per week

Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Teaching Sports: Teaching or assisting the host, guests, or local communities in practicing sports or physical activities.

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 16 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: Voluteers contribute 16$ per day for accomodation and food and as a donation for the project.

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Requirements

Intermediate English

Between 18 and 55 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Viva la Vida Family is a very engaging and dynamic project.
Volunteers are in charge of teaching English to the youngest children attending our two cultural centres, two hours in the morning and two in the afternoon, and also one hour in the evening in the orphanage center.
The rest of the time the volunteers help to prepare the lessons, the school programs and all the activities. They also spend time with the children and the young people living in our foster home. We do also a lot of creative activities, environmental and recycling workshops, sport games or boardgames to help them develop other skills.

Weekends are always free, but you're welcome to spend time with the children or go on tours of the nearby areas with the older teenagers of the house who are learning to be tour guides.

Read more on our website vivalavidafamily.com

Activities & Shift

A typical day looks like this.
Volunteers have breakfast around 7, the our staff bring them to our cultural centres for the lessons and activities.
In the first cultural center the activities are from 8 to 10 am and to 2 to 4 pm, and volunteers have lunch in the foster home. In the evening some volunteers hold English lessons at the orphanage center for one hour from 5 to 6 pm, or from 6 to 7 pm.
In the second cultural center the activities are from 9 am to 3 pm, with one hour for lunch time.
Other volunteers can help in the foster home with private English lessons, office and management tasks, maintenance and activities with children.

The schedule can obviously change due to inconveniences or other urgent things to do.

On sundays we sometimes organize sport games or a football match, you can also spend the day relaxing or going out for a trip or visit something around.

Rules


• Flexibility on hours and tasks: we do what needs to be done!
• English level B1/B2 (preferable)
• Ability to respect the rules, the balances created, and the sacrifices made daily to move projects forward.
• Ability to put aside one's own needs during the volunteering period.
The priority is the project!
• Relate to vulnerable children and adolescents
We are not entertainers but educators! We work constantly every day to educate the most vulnerable minors.
• Respect for the local community and culture
• Respect the schedule of your activities, help each other and be responsible of your duties