Volunteer Assignments in SE Asia. Schools, National Parks, Health, & Temples

  Cambodia

• Other Cities in Cambodia: 
Phnom Penh

  Laos

• Rural Areas: 
Rural Areas

  Nepal

• Other Cities in Nepal: 
Chitwan
• Kathmandu: 
Kathmandu

  Thailand

• Chiang Mai: 
Chiang Mai
• All Other Areas in Thailand: 
Trang,  Khon Kaen,  Nong Khai,  Chiang Rai
• Phuket: 
Phuket

Durations of Program: 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks, 9-12 weeks and 3-6 months
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks
Dates: Every month

Description: Be the change. Be a real volunteer in a real and affordable grass roots project, offering relevant and qualifed support to overseas volunteers.
Get the opportunity to work with the local people, to experience their country, village, culture and nature through their eyes.

Depending on your skills you can:

* Teach English
* Computer skills
* Design websites, create databases or other qualified IT work
* Create information material in English
* Conduct tour guide training at national parks
* Conduct hospitality training for home stay families in villages.
* Make forest or marine wildlife surveys
* Child care
* Health care

Join the best 3 day Volunteer Training in SE Asia, intense learning by doing language, culture and teach training, lots of practical tasks, before you start.

The Training is open to other travelers too, who do not have the time to volunteer.

** CNN recommends 8 volunteer organizations worldwide. One of these is OpenmindProjects.
** Finalist in the Stockholm Challenge Award, 2008, ICT for Development.
** Featured in the National Geographic and Lonely Planet Thailand Guides.
** UNESCO recognizes OpenmindProjects ICT initiatives in Thailand.

Highlights: Our projects offer volunteers and interns different assignment and volunteer opportunities that suit different levels of experience and age.

You can work with adults, such as local teachers, national park or hospital staff, villagers, disabled, and you can work with children, students of all ages

You can choose to stay in one of our volunteer houses, with local host families, your own independent living or bungalows in a national parks.

* Live with a host family in a small village or in town. Immerse yourself in local life and culture.
* Live with other volunteers in a volunteer house, make international friends while helping local ones.
* Live with monks.Stay at a temple, learn the life of Buddhist monks.
* Live in a village. Teach at a small village school in the rice fields, on an island, by the sea, in the mountains.
* Live at a ranger station in the jungle in a national park or by the sea, in the mountains.
* Combine a volunteer placement in one country with a placement in another; Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal.

Qualifications: Depending on volunteer assignments volunteers should
* Speak good English
* Have relevant computer skills
* Ecology, zoology etc skills
* Health/medical background
* Child care background
* etc

No prior teaching experience is however required.

Important general volunteer qualities are initiative, social skills, independence, energy, patience and open minds.

Cost in US$: Visit our Website

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: Open mind projects volunteers come from all over the world, of all ages, 18 - 80! They are independent, flexible, openminded and want to help.

Age Range: 18 +

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 2-4

Application Process Involves:

• Letters of Reference
• Resume
• Written Application

Post-Program Services Include:

• Alumni Network
• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Job and Internship Network

Open mind projects's Mission Statement: Open Mind Projects is a bridge to knowledge and cross-cultural understanding, bridging digital and knowledge divides between rich and poor. Open Mind Projects arranges placements for international volunteers to schools, Orphan Homes, other institutions and projects, in Thailand and Laos. Open Mind Projects cooperates with these schools and institutions with learning ideas, technology and international volunteers. Schools and other learning/youth institutions in developing nations are understaffed and under resources. New information technology and international volunteers help offset this advantage. Open Mind Projects wants to facilitate valuable cross-cultural experience, personal development, for volunteers and local childeren and students. An opportunity to learn about other cultures while making local and international friends, within an affordable backpacker budget.

Year Founded: 2001