Mini-Adventure Thailand

  Thailand

• Bangkok: 
Bangkok

Durations of Program: 1-2 weeks, 2-4 weeks, 5-8 weeks and 9-12 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks

Description: Our unique Thailand Mini-adventure program blends your remarkable volunteer experience with a thrilling visit to Bangkok and surrounding places of tourist attractions. For the two weeks that you will travel in Thailand, you will encounter challenges and issues that plague the children of Thailand. Witnessing the problems of Thailand's youth, you will have numerous opportunities to give the care and love that these children need. While you give hope to these children, you will receive a chance of a lifetime - to explore the amazing city of Bangkok and other wonderful destinations of Thailand.

In Thailand Mini-adventure program volunteers will work as an assistant child care taker in child development center, baby homes or assistant teachers in primary schools. Child Care Centers are day care centers where poor villagers leave their kids before they go to work in their offices/factories. These are established by local government especially in the areas where there are poor communities to help poor people who can not hire nannies for their kids or send to private nurseries in town.

Here, volunteers will engage in various activities that work to support local children, like teaching English, sanitation, playing games, drawing pictures, and other projects that are requested by local organizations. Furthermore, volunteers can participate in some physical activities, like planting, maintaining, and watering flowers around the orphanages. After a few days of working with children, Global Crossroad organizes a remarkable mini-cultural Bangkok tour that will allow volunteers to see some of the most popular tourist destinations of Thailand.

Proposed Program Schedule:

Day 1:
Airport receive, apartment/hostel/host family transfer, and rest

Day 2:
Orientation trip to Bangkok: a trip will be arranged to visit Bangkok. Grand palace and Emerald Buddha, Wat Pho, Khaosan road etc. are the popular places to visit.

Day 3:
Drive to project site, introduction to local staffs, transfer to the placement, introduction to the project, visit of the town to show bus station and internet cafes, then go to the apartment/family and rest.

Day 4-13:
Volunteers will work with children. Working in schools and day-care centers/orphanages include teaching simple English, helping with sanitation, playing games, drawing pictures, and other related help requested by local organizations. Evening time is free; volunteers can explore the surrounding areas by their own.

Week end or at the end of the program: Travel to Ayutthaya, an earlier capital before Bangkok's time to see remains of old temples. Travel past rice paddies and beautiful countryside to Kanchanaburi, another city famous for its natural beauty and history.This is a backpacker-style guesthouse. Hotel package trip by bus or driven by Car: you may ride elephants, hike and swim at Erawan Waterfall - a spectacular 9-levels waterfall, then raft-ride down the river to Krasae Cave. Take a train-ride on the rail built by POWs to take rail traffic into Burma, and cross the Bridge over River Kwai.

Day 14:
Travel back to Bangkok or Global Crossroad office depending upon your return flight or travel plan, closing of program.

*Proposed Itinerary is subject to change in order to meet the field conditions.

Cost in US$: please inquire for more information

Experience Required: no

Application Process Involves:

• Written Application

Global Crossroad's Mission Statement: Global Crossroad offers many remarkable and challenging volunteer, internship, mini-adventure, and cultural immersion opportunities to interested international volunteers in marvelous countries such as India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, China, Mongolia, Ghana, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Kenya. Our unique programs are creative and exciting, as they engage volunteers in breathtaking journeys. Here, a volunteer can become involved in service projects while they explore remote villages. A volunteer can also learn a wonderful new heritage as the Global Crossroad provides language training courses and cultural tours.

Year Founded: 2002