Teaching and organizing games for disadvantaged kids in Hai Duong welfare center

  Vietnam

• Hanoi: 
Hanoi

Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 2-4 weeks
Dates: March 17 - March 29

Description: The project is organized in collaboration with the welfare center in Hai Duong province, 50 km from Hanoi. The welfare center was established in 1982 in Haiduong City. There are around 1000 children coming from many different parts of Hai Duong province. The children in the center are from a poor background, disadvantaged, disabled and orphans.

The volunteers are expected to help the children in the welfare center with their daily tasks like cleaning the bedrooms and the school yard. The volunteers can also join drawing classes, teach them some basic things about their countries, health, English and other languages, and can organize some leisure activities for the children and youth after school. Volunteers can also join some activities (teaching English, organizing games) with the children in the Hanah Kindergarten nearby the center.

There is an extra fee of 150 Euro for participation in this workcamp, intended to support the hosting organization.

Qualifications: It is important for the volunteers to be flexible and prepared to work in a different social and cultural environment. They are expected to be motivated and to participate actively.

Cost in US$: USD 290

Experience Required: no

Typical Volunteer: motivated to work voluntarily within an international team, tolerant, open-minded and cooperative young person with adventurous spirit.

Age Range: 18 and over

This Program is open to American and Canadian Participants.

Participants Travel to Vietnam Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups

CADIP - Canadian Alliance for Development Initiatives and Projects's Mission Statement: CADIP promotes peace, cooperation, tolerance and understanding in international, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural surroundings. The organization also promotes patterns and examples of civil activities focused on serving others, on building social ties and strengthening communities, on supporting civil society development. Aims and general objectives: * To promote volunteering as an expression of civic contribution * To strengthen the international contacts among young people * To build tolerance and understanding in multicultural and multi-ethnic surroundings *To promote multiunderstanding among youth all over the world * To facilitate the individual growth of the volunteers through the acquisition of work, life and learning skills * To work for the recognition and promotion of non-formal learning * To support the community initiatives and assist in community development.