Work

The 1stweek the volunteer will spend time together supporting communityCreative teaching English i Creative teaching is important to recognize; teaching certificate does not need for specific quality of the volunteer but creative is the one of yours. The aims of creative teaching are given the chance for people in the village or the place nearby can communicate with different language, touch difference culture, and believing. Center renovation i As we have the center, VSA Learning Home, now we also need a volunteer to set up the center as when they have spare time from main work. We are going to clean the accommodation and meeting area, and continue to build and paint the construction that the last volunteer did. There are villagers help and teach how to build. This is a good way to learn Thai way of the construct. Also, the volunteer can make the chair in this part.Relationship with the villagers i The rest of time form your main work, important thing is to learn and share with the villager by visiting, talking and do activities with them. You will get rich experience by learning and sharing from each other.Kitchen garden i The volunteer will work in the small farm as a kitchen garden. They can renovate and plant some vegetables for making the food in the future. The 2nd week will be following the theme as COCONUT CAMP Main work of this camp will be all about coconut. The concept is learning to use the local and nature care resourced from local, avoidi

Partner

Peace Village Songkhla has been creating in 2011 at Peace Village, everyone can come to learn in the main aim is learning by doing and international community Living. We can study about each country, nationalities, cultures, etc. in the class but in the real situation is not in the lesson where you can see how the difference of people even they are from the same city.Peace Village is active at the rural area of Songkhla province, Southern of Thailand in the small village; the name Ban Ton San (Ban in Thai mean village). The main occupation is rubber plantation and most of the villagers are Buddhist.Keywords to live at Peace Village;-Slow life/ living organic-International community living-Learning by doing-Cultural diversitySDGs in this campGoal 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for allGoal 10 Reduce inequality within and among countriesGoal 11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableGoal 16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levelsGoal 17 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Location

There are many beautiful tourist attractions in Songkhla province. We would like to recommend the Hat Yai Municipality Park, Samila Beach, and Songkhla Old Town. Hat Yai Municipality Park i The biggest public park in Hat Yai city where the local people come to take a relax. Moreover, there is a big Buddha on the top of the Ko Hong hill around the area of the public park. You can take the public car at the park to the hill. There you can see the beautiful view of Hat Yai city. Samila Beach i The main beach of Songkhla province. There is full of history and storytelling about the Samila Beach and the small islands from the beach. Songkhla Old Town i The original town of Songkhla can tell many stories in that period. You can visit, find some typical food and take the photo with the beautiful walls and buildingsYou can find more information at: https://www.tourismthailand.org/About-Thailand/Destination/Songkhla https://www.inspirock.com/thailand/things-to-do-in-songkhla-province

Accomodation

The volunteer will stay at Learning Home (Homestay) and Suan Plak Waa Farm in Thai style dormitory-Nature environment, basic and simple.-Mattress, pillow, and fan are provided. -Thai toilet and bath. -Washing clothes by hand.-No food and drink except drinking water in accommodation area for your care because some animals such as mouse, ant, will come to share your food.-Please keep clean and tidyThe volunteer expects to eat Thai food and takes turn cooking with a local volunteer.

Requirements

-Teaching clothes, every shirt needs to cover shoulders, trousers for men and skirt for women, the skirt should cover your knees. Important No vest, blue Jeans, or shorts while teaching.-Farming working clothes.-Brogue shoes or canvas shoes, no slippers when teaching. Sandals with socks can comply.-Medicine as necessary-Mosquito repellant-Your traditional music, costumes, food and drink for the intercultural night (cooking and performance)-Materials or sources (brochures, maps, souvenirs, pictures, flags, or handicrafts to introduce about your country and culture). -Sunglasses and sun-block cream-Toilet paper (you can buy it at the shop in the village)-Any interesting materials such as CDs, ideas for games/activities for students.-Motivation, good humor, and communication skills-Raincoat or umbrella (during rainy season)

Notes:

Work

The volunteer is expected to work as English teachers in the primary school. They can prepare their lesson by themselves, but the teacher at the school can give the advice (do not expect this point too much even the teachers are also shy to speak out). Creative teaching English – Creative teaching is important to recognize; teaching certificate does not need for specific quality of the volunteer but creative is the one of yours. The aims of creative teaching are giving the chance for students in the school or the place nearby have the opportunity to communicate with different language, touch difference culture, and believing. Teaching the English language by activity; using games, song, storytelling, art or performance to encourage them to communicate in English. The volunteer should create the game and activity for a student who is 7- 18 years old. We don’t expect the student can learn more about reading and writing, but we want the volunteer makes them dare to speak English at the beginning. Agriculture work – The volunteer can learn how to plant the vegetables such as mushroom, morning glory, and another local vegetable, etc. in the school.

Partner

VSA1906 Intercultural and Language (ICL) Camp – Krabi, Ban Sapanpon School is a small school in Krabi province. It is the primary school where there are 60 -70 students who study in the school. Even though the school is located in Krabi where it is the tourist place, it is far from the destination; beach and the sea. Most local people don’t have a chance to learn about different culture and cannot speak English. It means the student in the school they don’t have the opportunity as well. This project is a good opportunity when the volunteer comes and shares the culture and language by doing an activity with a student in the school. The volunteer can motivate children to dare to speak English. Furthermore, the volunteer can teach them by your own language and learn the Thai Language. Learning and sharing the intercultural and language still are the main purpose. The volunteer can share and learn culture, language, and knowledge with the local community and children in school. Also, the volunteer will know more about Thailand during working in the local community. In 2019, the project needs the volunteer, who is the most important of the part, to continue for developing the potential of a local community that the last volunteers did, to help children in school, and local community still practice the English language, to learn your own language, and to make them learn more about the different culture. Hopefully, the volunteer can motivate another student who lives around the village but studies another school where it is far away from the village to come back to study in this school. On the other hand, the volunteer also gets the opportunity to know local food, local transportation, local occupation and local culture with living in local habitation in the community. We believe that understanding several cultures can make the world be peaceful.

Location

(Tiger Cave Temple), and Ao Nang Beach. The Emerald Pool – An Unseen Thailand in Krabi is a mineral pool in the forest. Wat Tham Sua (Tiger Cave Temple) – It is one of the more interesting temple complexes in southern Thailand, as the monks live and worship within a maze of natural caves in an overgrown jungle valley. Ao Nang Beach – The popular beautiful beach for tourist in Krabi You can find more information at: https://www.tourismthailand.org/About-Thailand/Destination/Krabi

Accomodation

The volunteer will stay with a local host family and the teacher’s house in the school. • Nature environment, basic and simple. • Mattress, pillow, and fan are provided. • Thai toilet and bath. • No food and drinks except water in the sleeping area for your care because some animals such as the mouses, ants, will come to share your food. • Please keep clean and tidy. The volunteer expects to eat Thai food. A local host family will prepare the food for the volunteer.

Requirements

• Teaching clothes, every shirt needs to cover shoulders, trousers for men and skirt for women, the skirt should cover your knees. Important! No vest, blue Jeans, or shorts while teaching. • Brogue shoes or canvas shoes, no slippers when teaching. Sandals with socks can comply. • Medicine as necessary • Mosquito repellant • Your traditional music, costumes, food and drink for the intercultural night (cooking and performance) • Materials or sources (brochures, maps, souvenirs, pictures, flags, or handicrafts to introduce about your country and culture). • Sunglasses and sun-block cream • Toilet paper (you can buy it at the shop in the village) • Any interesting materials such as CDs, ideas for games/activities for students. • Motivation, good humor, and communication skills • Raincoat or umbrella (during rainy season)

Notes:

Work

The 1stweek the volunteer will spend time together supporting communityCreative teaching English i Creative teaching is important to recognize; teaching certificate does not need for specific quality of the volunteer but creative is the one of yours. The aims of creative teaching are given the chance for people in the village or the place nearby can communicate with different language, touch difference culture, and believing. Center renovation i As we have the center, VSA Learning Home, now we also need a volunteer to set up the center as when they have spare time from main work. We are going to clean the accommodation and meeting area, and continue to build and paint the construction that the last volunteer did. There are villagers help and teach how to build. This is a good way to learn Thai way of the construct. Also, the volunteer can make the chair in this part.Relationship with the villagers i The rest of time form your main work, important thing is to learn and share with the villager by visiting, talking and do activities with them. You will get rich experience by learning and sharing from each other.Kitchen garden i The volunteer will work in the small farm as a kitchen garden. They can renovate and plant some vegetables for making the food in the future. The 2nd week will be following the theme as BANANA CAMP Main work of this camp will be all about the banana. The concept is learning to use the local and nature care resourced, avoiding chemic

Partner

Peace Village Songkhla has been creating in 2011 at Peace Village, everyone can come to learn in the main aim is learning by doing and international community Living. We can study about each country, nationalities, cultures, etc. in the class but in the real situation is not in the lesson where you can see how the difference of people even they are from the same city.Peace Village is active at the rural area of Songkhla province, Southern of Thailand in the small village; the name Ban Ton San (Ban in Thai mean village). The main occupation is rubber plantation and most of the villagers are Buddhist.Keywords to live at Peace Village;-Slow life/ living organic-International community living-Learning by doing-Cultural diversitySDGs in this campGoal 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for allGoal 10 Reduce inequality within and among countriesGoal 11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableGoal 16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levelsGoal 17 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Location

There are many beautiful tourist attractions in Songkhla province. We would like to recommend the Hat Yai Municipality Park, Samila Beach, and Songkhla Old Town. Hat Yai Municipality Park i The biggest public park in Hat Yai city where the local people come to take a relax. Moreover, there is a big Buddha on the top of the Ko Hong hill around the area of the public park. You can take the public car at the park to the hill. There you can see the beautiful view of Hat Yai city. Samila Beach i The main beach of Songkhla province. There is full of history and storytelling about the Samila Beach and the small islands from the beach. Songkhla Old Town i The original town of Songkhla can tell many stories in that period. You can visit, find some typical food and take the photo with the beautiful walls and buildingsYou can find more information at: https://www.tourismthailand.org/About-Thailand/Destination/Songkhla https://www.inspirock.com/thailand/things-to-do-in-songkhla-province

Accomodation

The volunteer will stay at Learning Home (Homestay) and Suan Plak Waa Farm in Thai style dormitory-Nature environment, basic and simple.-Mattress, pillow, and fan are provided. -Thai toilet and bath. -Washing clothes by hand.-No food and drink except drinking water in accommodation area for your care because some animals such as mouse, ant, will come to share your food.-Please keep clean and tidyThe volunteer expects to eat Thai food and takes turn cooking with a local volunteer.

Requirements

-Working clothes.-Brogue shoes or canvas shoes, no slippers when teaching. Sandals with socks can comply.-Medicine as necessary-Mosquito repellant-Sunglasses and sun-block cream-Toilet paper (you can buy it at the shop in the village)-Motivation, good humor, and communication skills-Raincoat or umbrella (during rainy season)

Notes:

Work

The volunteer is expected to work as an English teacher in primary and high school. You can prepare the easy English lesson and useful conversation. The volunteer should open the mind, share a new experience with the students, and use your own experience for teaching and enjoying the game. Creative teaching English – Creative teaching is important to recognize; teaching certificate does not need for specific quality of the volunteer but creative is the one of yours. The aims of creative teaching are giving the chance for students in the school or the place nearby to have the opportunity to communicate with different language, touch difference culture, and believing. Teaching the English language by activity; using games, song, storytelling, art or performance to encourage them to communicate in English. The volunteer should create the game and activity for a student who is 7- 18 years old. We do not expect the student can learn more about reading and writing, but we want the volunteer makes them dare to speak English at the beginning.

Partner

VSA1907 Education for Disadvantaged Children is created at Rajaprajanugroh 53 School where it is the school for disadvantaged and poor children in the countryside of Sakon Nakhon, Thailand. Rajaprajanugroh 53 School is the school for disadvantaged and poor children in the countryside of Sakon Nakhon, Thailand. The school is under the royal foundation offers education, food and accommodation for the children who have no parents, the children from the poor family, and the children from the very remote area. They can come and stay at the school from the primary (7 years old) to high school (18 years old). The volunteer can share and learn culture, language, and knowledge with the local community and children in school. Everyone can study about each country, nationality, culture, etc. in the real situation. The volunteer can see how the difference between people even they live in the same city. Moreover, the volunteers will know more about Thailand during working in the local community. The great volunteers came to give the opportunity for children and the local people in the community. Many local people can improve their English skills through a group by a group of volunteer, or at least they try to speak the English language more. They dare to face and work with the foreigner even though they cannot speak English. Moreover, the volunteers have changed the local community. They used to stay lively and trustily with the foreigner. Local people have a chance to learn, accept, and adopt the ways of life with the new cultures from the volunteers who are like an intercultural ambassador.

Location

There are many beautiful tourist attractions in Sakon Nakhon province. We would like to recommend Phra That Narai Cheng Weng, Phu Phan National Park, and Wat Tham Pha Daen. Phra That Narai Cheng Weng – The historical temple which is believed that women built it to compete to the men. Phu Phan National Park – The seventh national park of Thailand, in the past there was the battlefield in World War2. https://www.tourismthailand.org/About-Thailand/Destination/SakonNakhon

Accomodation

The volunteer will stay at the school dormitory and the teacher’s house in the school. • Nature environment, basic and simple. • Mattress, pillow, and fan are provided. • Thai toilet and bath. • No food and drinks except water in the sleeping area for your care because some animals such as the mouses, ants, will come to share your food. • Please keep clean and tidy. The volunteer expects to eat Thai food. The school will prepare the food for the volunteer.

Requirements

• Teaching clothes, every shirt needs to cover shoulders, trousers for men and skirt for women, the skirt should cover your knees. Important! No vest, blue Jeans, or shorts while teaching. • Brogue shoes or canvas shoes, no slippers when teaching. Sandals with socks can comply. • Medicine as necessary • Mosquito repellant • Your traditional music, costumes, food and drink for the intercultural night (cooking and performance) • Materials or sources (brochures, maps, souvenirs, pictures, flags, or handicrafts to introduce about your country and culture). • Sunglasses and sun-block cream • Toilet paper (you can buy it at the shop in the village) • Any interesting materials such as CDs, ideas for games/activities for students. • Motivation, good humor, and communication skills • Raincoat or umbrella (during rainy season)

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Work

• Building a small, compact learning center in the activity area to give space to kids to do activities together • Growing edible vegetables in the local host’s planting area • Making compost, taking care of paddy field or making bio-fertilizer • Creating games and activities for pupils. There will be around 20-30 of kindergarten’s age • Learning and integrating in the fisherman lifestyle 3 PROGRAM FOR 2019 SHORT-TERM CAMPS **Activities proposed above can be adjusted according to the current incidents of sudden, possible unavailability of project matters, weather condition, etc. We’ll keep you updated 1 month or 2 weeks before the camp starts** It’s recommended for participants to bring in some ideas for group activities to the work camp as you will spend most of your stay with your volunteer friends. Activities can be card games, songs, shows, craft skill sharing or anything that bring you guys together!

Partner

SHORT DESCRIPTION Koh Sukorn is a preserved island of Andaman sea in South Thailand. During this work camp, we will have a chance to join hands with the community members to preserve the local agriculture while we can learn about their way of living. Moreover, we will be creating activities and games with children and young people to open their views and let them learn about international culture together with the volunteers. We will need your creativity and ideas of games and activities that will create a multi- cultural atmosphere for them. This year they want to build a small, compact learning center in the activity area to give space to kids to do activities together. HISTORY and REASONS OF THE PROJECT Sukorn Island (KohSukorn) is a small island situated in Palian district, Trang province. The island covers an area of 14 sq km. Like every year, we will be conducting activities with communities of Baan Laem and Baan Toong. In these 2 villages, there is population of 1,200 or 337 families, of which 95% are Muslims. The common occupations of the villagers are fishing, rubber tapping, as well as agriculture; growing paddy, watermelons, traditional way of growing vegetables, and keeping livestock. In general the villagers are very generous and still remain the culture of supporting and sharing with each other. Furthermore, they also believe that paddy and agriculture is the main food stability of the village. AIMS of the PROJECT • To support the initiatives of local agricultural activities • To fully and wisely utilize local resources • To be part of the communities • To let children be familiar with volunteers and learn in international/multi-cultural atmosphere

Location

Meeting point: 11 AM on Sunday, July 14 th , 2019, at Trang train station in Trang province.

Accomodation

Volunteers will stay at the local people house. You will need to bring sleeping bag, a small mattress and a mosquito net for yourself. The living condition is very simple than you would think. You may find it completely different than in your country. There are basic toilets and showers and a kitchen where volunteers will cook by themselves. They can take turn in daily tasks. The ingredients can be purchased at local grocery stores. It may be helpful if you bring some instant ingredients from home, so that you can share some of your traditional food with other volunteers. (No oven, only a gas and woks or pans). As mentioned that it’s a Muslim village, so there will be no pork used in cooking. **Please do not expect intensive comfort during your time at the project**

Requirements

The volunteers should be ready to stay in a remote area, to adapt to the local conditions with only basic facilities. Not many local people are able to speak English. Volunteers should be able to handle spontaneous working environment and constant changes in the plans. The mentality and way of thinking is very different from the western world. There will have activities with the children. To have responsibility for you, the kids and full involvement in community matters is a must. For the 2 weeks, you will be led by a DaLaa member/staff who will help to coordinate the project.

Notes:

Work

The 1stweek the volunteer will spend time together supporting communityCreative teaching English i Creative teaching is important to recognize; teaching certificate does not need for specific quality of the volunteer but creative is the one of yours. The aims of creative teaching are given the chance for people in the village or the place nearby can communicate with different language, touch difference culture, and believing. Center renovation i As we have the center, VSA Learning Home, now we also need a volunteer to set up the center as when they have spare time from main work. We are going to clean the accommodation and meeting area, and continue to build and paint the construction that the last volunteer did. There are villagers help and teach how to build. This is a good way to learn Thai way of the construct. Also, the volunteer can make the chair in this part.Relationship with the villagers i The rest of time form your main work, important thing is to learn and share with the villager by visiting, talking and do activities with them. You will get rich experience by learning and sharing from each other.Kitchen garden i The volunteer will work in the small farm as a kitchen garden. They can renovate and plant some vegetables for making the food in the future. The 2nd week will be following the theme as COCONUT CAMP Main work of this camp will be all about coconut. The concept is learning to use the local and nature care resourced from local, avoidi

Partner

Peace Village Songkhla has been creating in 2011 at Peace Village, everyone can come to learn in the main aim is learning by doing and international community Living. We can study about each country, nationalities, cultures, etc. in the class but in the real situation is not in the lesson where you can see how the difference of people even they are from the same city.Peace Village is active at the rural area of Songkhla province, Southern of Thailand in the small village; the name Ban Ton San (Ban in Thai mean village). The main occupation is rubber plantation and most of the villagers are Buddhist.Keywords to live at Peace Village;-Slow life/ living organic-International community living-Learning by doing-Cultural diversitySDGs in this campGoal 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for allGoal 10 Reduce inequality within and among countriesGoal 11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableGoal 16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levelsGoal 17 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Location

There are many beautiful tourist attractions in Songkhla province. We would like to recommend the Hat Yai Municipality Park, Samila Beach, and Songkhla Old Town. Hat Yai Municipality Park i The biggest public park in Hat Yai city where the local people come to take a relax. Moreover, there is a big Buddha on the top of the Ko Hong hill around the area of the public park. You can take the public car at the park to the hill. There you can see the beautiful view of Hat Yai city. Samila Beach i The main beach of Songkhla province. There is full of history and storytelling about the Samila Beach and the small islands from the beach. Songkhla Old Town i The original town of Songkhla can tell many stories in that period. You can visit, find some typical food and take the photo with the beautiful walls and buildingsYou can find more information at: https://www.tourismthailand.org/About-Thailand/Destination/Songkhla https://www.inspirock.com/thailand/things-to-do-in-songkhla-province

Accomodation

The volunteer will stay at Learning Home (Homestay) and Suan Plak Waa Farm in Thai style dormitory-Nature environment, basic and simple.-Mattress, pillow, and fan are provided. -Thai toilet and bath. -Washing clothes by hand.-No food and drink except drinking water in accommodation area for your care because some animals such as mouse, ant, will come to share your food.-Please keep clean and tidyThe volunteer expects to eat Thai food and takes turn cooking with a local volunteer.

Requirements

-Teaching clothes, every shirt needs to cover shoulders, trousers for men and skirt for women, the skirt should cover your knees. Important No vest, blue Jeans, or shorts while teaching.-Farming working clothes.-Brogue shoes or canvas shoes, no slippers when teaching. Sandals with socks can comply.-Medicine as necessary-Mosquito repellant-Your traditional music, costumes, food and drink for the intercultural night (cooking and performance)-Materials or sources (brochures, maps, souvenirs, pictures, flags, or handicrafts to introduce about your country and culture). -Sunglasses and sun-block cream-Toilet paper (you can buy it at the shop in the village)-Any interesting materials such as CDs, ideas for games/activities for students.-Motivation, good humor, and communication skills-Raincoat or umbrella (during rainy season)

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Work

1. Organizing creative English teaching activities with kids with two different schools of Koh Yao Education Development Network on Koh Yao Yai. 2. Learning village lifestyle and increasing participation of the villagers 3. Voluntary service activities with the community **Activities proposed above can be adjusted according to the current incidents of sudden, possible unavailability of project matters, weather condition, etc. We’ll keep you updated 1 month or 2 weeks before the camp starts** ** You will be supervised by a DaLaa coordinator who will be the link between the volunteers’ team and the local schools. The school director can also speak good English. ** ** We will try to mix Thai volunteers and international from different countries but we cannot guarantee it. We will keep you informed during and after your application. 5 PROGRAM FOR 2019 SHORT-TERM CAMPS It’s recommended for participants to bring in some ideas for group activities to the work camp as you will spend most of your stay with your volunteer friends. Activities can be card games, songs, shows, craft skill sharing or anything that bring you guys together!

Partner

SHORT DESCRIPTION Koh Yao is a Muslim island in the Andaman sea of South Thailand. Since it started to become a tourist attraction, there have been some big changes in the local communities’ lifestyle. The villagers started to move from fishing and agriculture to tourism industry-related work. People realized slowly the dangers of losing their friendly sufficient communities and environment issues are rising quickly. During these 2 weeks, volunteers will join the network of schools to help to organize activities with kids and take part in the realities of the local population. This way we hope to get more mutual understanding between the local population and the international communities and make a small step in a better direction for all of us. HISTORY and REASONS OF THE PROJECT Koh Yao is composed of 2 islands: Koh Yao Yai and the smallest Kho Yao Noi and covers about 140 Sq.Km. The islands are situated in Phang Nga province, but it’s easier to reach the place from Krabi in the East or Phuket in the West. There are other smaller islands around in the same area. 99.9% of the population is Muslim. The ancestors of Koh Yao community migrated from Trang province to Koh Yao Yai since the 18th century to escape the Thai-Burmese war. Like most of the islands in South Thailand, the place became more and more popular for tourism in the last 20 years. Some investors, from Phuket and other places came to build resorts. Impacts on the local communities and the environment were not much taken in consideration. Nowadays they start to realize the loss for the social and natural environment. English language is an important tool for the local people. It is necessary to work in the tourism sector, but most of all it is needed to communicate, to understand the foreigners coming on their land, to get a chance to defend their values and lifestyle as well. In 2015, Mr. Wira Suebpong, the Director of Baan KlongHia School and Mr. Anucha Ban-amad, the Director of Baan PruNai School, have set up a network of the 13 schools on Koh Yao to seek an alternative way to develop education which will support students to learn happily and effectively, as well as maintain the voluntary mind for their own community. The two directors met Mr. Boonchan Saengfai who invited DaLaa association and discussed the possibility to organize an International short-term work camp in August 2016 with few of these schools. The results were positive, we renewed the experience with them since then until the present year. AIMS of the PROJECT 1- To support alternative education for students. 2- To bring awareness on voluntary mind and public participation among the community members. 3- To develop cultural exchange among the community members.

Location

Meeting point: Sunday, August 4th, 2019 in Phuket at Bang Rong Pier-Koh Yao Yai Pier at the pier restaurant at 11 AM.

Accomodation

Volunteers will sleep in school classroom or at villagers’ house (depending on number of volunteers). You will need to bring your own sleeping bag, foldable mat and mosquito net with you. There are basic toilets, showers and a kitchen at the school canteen. The teachers and villagers will help the volunteers to cook. Local people eat rice (or noodles) 3 times a day with side dishes like curries, omelets, local leaves and vegetables. Volunteers will be welcome to cook their own food using the ingredients available there. (No oven, only a gas and woks or pans). The villagers are Muslim so there must be no pork nor alcohol products.

Requirements

Volunteers should be ready to stay in a local area, to adapt to the local conditions with only basic facilities. Very few local people are able to speak in English. Volunteers should be able to be with the kids and prepare some games and material for teaching

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Work

Living environment daily routine in general, that means everything from a small cleaning to construction work, building, repairing, anything can be valuable and alsoo teaching and learning new things outside the classroom.Segregation works at Peace Village are;English as a Second Language (ESL) Creative teaching i Creative teaching could make learning more fun and easier to remember. The volunteer doesn t need to have a teaching certificate, only a will to build your creativity for teaching and make learning English more fun, most importantly for the student and for yourself. The aims of creative teaching are to give opportunities for the villagers to learn and exchange the differences in culture, the languages, and beliefs. School Renovation i The volunteer will rebuild and maintain the good living atmosphere and environment for students learning ground including; playground, renovation, school building, and planting, etc.Relationship with the villagers i Apart from your free time, it considers a bonus learning experience, both for yourself and villagers, simply by sharing; giving them visits, stop by for a friendly chat, sharing stories or even join in activities with them. Sometimes, you could be surprised at how learning by doing in real life could give such wonderful surprise or even unexpected results simply by just doing.Organic Farm i The volunteer can learn how to produce our own nonichemical food and vegetables.

Partner

Peace Village 2 Korat or Nakorn Ratchasima (Korat is a nickname) has been created by VSA since 2015 to strengthen the community by the international volunteers in term of intercultural learning and building motivation to communicate with foreigners by non-formal education in the community as well as school.At Peace Village, everyone can come to learn in the main aim is learning by doing and international community living. We can study about each country, nationalities, cultures, etc. in the class, but in the real situation is not in the lesson where you can see how the difference of people even they are from the same city.Peace Village is active at the rural area of Nakhon Ratchasima province, Northeast of Thailand (4 hours of Bangkok) in the small village; name Ban Krok Luk (Ban in Thai mean village). The main occupation is a farmer and most of the villagers are Buddhist.Keywords to live at Peace Village;-International community living-Learning by doing-Cultural diversity

Location

There are many beautiful tourist attractions in Nakhon Ratchasima province. We would like to recommend Khao Yai National Park and Phimai Historical ParkKhao Yai National Park i It is the first national park in Thailand, comprising mixed forest, rainforest, and meadows. Sightseeing on Khao Yai is one of the interesting things to do in Nakhon Ratchasima. There are more than 3,000 kinds of flowers, 250 kinds of birds, and 67 kinds of mammals like elephants, tigers, gibbons, deer, and boars up there. Phimai Historical Park i The beautiful historical castle is located in Pimai District, Nakhon Ratchasima

Accomodation

The volunteer will stay at a local host family.-Nature environment, basic and simple-Mattresses, pillows, and fans are being provided by your host, so a sleeping bag is very important? (thin one) because you will sleep on the floor.-Thai rural style toilet and bath.-Hand washing for clothes.-No food and drinks accept drinking water in the accommodation area under your care because some uninvited guests such as a mouse, ants, will come to share your food.-Please keep clean and tidy.The volunteer expects to eat Thai food and take turn cooking with local volunteers.

Requirements

-Teaching clothes, every shirt needs to cover the shoulders, trousers for man and skirt for a woman, the skirt should cover your knees. Important No camisole, tank top or shorts, you are a volunteer who respects the culture, not a real traveler.-Brogue shoe or canvas shoes-Medicine as you think necessary-Mosquito repellant-Cap or hat as Thai weather is hot.-Your traditional music and costumes (CDs, ideas for games/ activities). -Materials or sources (brochures, maps, souvenirs, pictures, flags, or handicrafts to introduce your country and culture). -Toilet paper (you can buy at the local shop in the village)-Sunglasses and sun-block cream

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Work

1. Organizing creative English teaching activities with kids with two different schools of Koh Yao Education Development Network on Koh Yao Yai. 2. Learning village lifestyle and increasing participation of the villagers 3. Voluntary service activities with the community **Activities proposed above can be adjusted according to the current incidents of sudden, possible unavailability of project matters, weather condition, etc. We’ll keep you updated 1 month or 2 weeks before the camp starts** ** You will be supervised by a DaLaa coordinator who will be the link between the volunteers’ team and the local schools. The school director can also speak good English. ** ** We will try to mix Thai volunteers and international from different countries but we cannot guarantee it. We will keep you informed during and after your application. It’s recommended for participants to bring in some ideas for group activities to the work camp as you will spend most of your stay with your volunteer friends. Activities can be card games, songs, shows, craft skill sharing or anything that bring you guys together! 7 PROGRAM FOR 2019 SHORT-TERM CAMPS Volunteers should be ready to stay in a local area, to adapt to the local conditions with only basic facilities. Very few local people are able to speak in English. Volunteers should be able to be with the kids and prepare some games and material for teaching.

Partner

Koh Yao is a Muslim island in the Andaman sea of South Thailand. Since it started to become a tourist attraction, there have been some big changes in the local communities’ lifestyle. The villagers started to move from fishing and agriculture to tourism industry-related work. People realized slowly the dangers of losing their friendly sufficient communities and environment issues are rising quickly. During these 2 weeks, volunteers will join the network of schools to help to organize activities with kids and take part in the realities of the local population. This way we hope to get more mutual understanding between the local population and the international communities and make a small step in a better direction for all of us. HISTORY and REASONS OF THE PROJECT Koh Yao is composed of 2 islands: Koh Yao Yai and the smallest Kho Yao Noi and covers about 140 Sq.Km. The islands are situated in Phang Nga province, but it’s easier to reach the place from Krabi in the East or Phuket in the West. There are other smaller islands around in the same area. 99.9% of the population is Muslim. The ancestors of Koh Yao community migrated from Trang province to Koh Yao Yai since the 18th century to escape the Thai-Burmese war. Like most of the islands in South Thailand, the place became more and more popular for tourism in the last 20 years. Some investors, from Phuket and other places came to build resorts. Impacts on the local communities and the environment were not much taken in consideration. Nowadays they start to realize the loss for the social and natural environment. English language is an important tool for the local people. It is necessary to work in the tourism sector, but most of all it is needed to communicate, to understand the foreigners coming on their land, to get a chance to defend their values and lifestyle as well. In 2015, Mr. Wira Suebpong, the Director of Baan KlongHia School and Mr. Anucha Ban-amad, the Director of Baan PruNai School, have set up a network of the 13 schools on Koh Yao to seek an alternative way to develop education which will support students to learn happily and effectively, as well as maintain the voluntary mind for their own community. The two directors met Mr. Boonchan Saengfai who invited DaLaa association and discussed the possibility to organize an International short-term work camp in August 2016 with few of these schools. The results were positive, we renewed the experience with them since then until the present year. AIMS of the PROJECT 1- To support alternative education for students. 2- To bring awareness on voluntary mind and public participation among the community members. 3- To develop cultural exchange among the community members.

Location

Meeting point: Sunday, August 18th, 2019 in Phuket at Bang Rong Pier-Koh Yao Yai Pier at the pier restaurant at 11 AM

Accomodation

Volunteers will sleep in school classroom or at villagers’ house (depending on number of volunteers). You will need to bring your own sleeping bag, foldable mat and mosquito net with you. There are basic toilets, showers and a kitchen at the school canteen. The teachers and villagers will help the volunteers to cook. Local people eat rice (or noodles) 3 times a day with side dishes like curries, omelets, local leaves and vegetables. Volunteers will be welcome to cook their own food using the ingredients available there. (No oven, only a gas and woks or pans). The villagers are Muslim so there must be no pork nor alcohol products.

Requirements

Volunteers should be ready to stay in a local area, to adapt to the local conditions with only basic facilities. Very few local people are able to speak in English. Volunteers should be able to be with the kids and prepare some games and material for teaching.

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Work

The 1stweek the volunteer will spend time together supporting communityCreative teaching English i Creative teaching is important to recognize; teaching certificate does not need for specific quality of the volunteer but creative is the one of yours. The aims of creative teaching are given the chance for people in the village or the place nearby can communicate with different language, touch difference culture, and believing. Center renovation i As we have the center, VSA Learning Home, now we also need a volunteer to set up the center as when they have spare time from main work. We are going to clean the accommodation and meeting area, and continue to build and paint the construction that the last volunteer did. There are villagers help and teach how to build. This is a good way to learn Thai way of the construct. Also, the volunteer can make the chair in this part.Relationship with the villagers i The rest of time form your main work, important thing is to learn and share with the villager by visiting, talking and do activities with them. You will get rich experience by learning and sharing from each other.Kitchen garden i The volunteer will work in the small farm as a kitchen garden. They can renovate and plant some vegetables for making the food in the future. The 2nd week will be following the theme as BANANA CAMP Main work of this camp will be all about the banana. The concept is learning to use the local and nature care resourced, avoiding chemic

Partner

Peace Village Songkhla has been creating in 2011 at Peace Village, everyone can come to learn in the main aim is learning by doing and international community Living. We can study about each country, nationalities, cultures, etc. in the class but in the real situation is not in the lesson where you can see how the difference of people even they are from the same city.Peace Village is active at the rural area of Songkhla province, Southern of Thailand in the small village; the name Ban Ton San (Ban in Thai mean village). The main occupation is rubber plantation and most of the villagers are Buddhist.Keywords to live at Peace Village;-Slow life/ living organic-International community living-Learning by doing-Cultural diversitySDGs in this campGoal 4 Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for allGoal 10 Reduce inequality within and among countriesGoal 11 Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableGoal 16 Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levelsGoal 17 Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Location

There are many beautiful tourist attractions in Songkhla province. We would like to recommend the Hat Yai Municipality Park, Samila Beach, and Songkhla Old Town. Hat Yai Municipality Park i The biggest public park in Hat Yai city where the local people come to take a relax. Moreover, there is a big Buddha on the top of the Ko Hong hill around the area of the public park. You can take the public car at the park to the hill. There you can see the beautiful view of Hat Yai city. Samila Beach i The main beach of Songkhla province. There is full of history and storytelling about the Samila Beach and the small islands from the beach. Songkhla Old Town i The original town of Songkhla can tell many stories in that period. You can visit, find some typical food and take the photo with the beautiful walls and buildingsYou can find more information at: https://www.tourismthailand.org/About-Thailand/Destination/Songkhla https://www.inspirock.com/thailand/things-to-do-in-songkhla-province

Accomodation

The volunteer will stay at Learning Home (Homestay) and Suan Plak Waa Farm in Thai style dormitory-Nature environment, basic and simple.-Mattress, pillow, and fan are provided. -Thai toilet and bath. -Washing clothes by hand.-No food and drink except drinking water in accommodation area for your care because some animals such as mouse, ant, will come to share your food.-Please keep clean and tidyThe volunteer expects to eat Thai food and takes turn cooking with a local volunteer.

Requirements

-Working clothes.-Brogue shoes or canvas shoes, no slippers when teaching. Sandals with socks can comply.-Medicine as necessary-Mosquito repellant-Sunglasses and sun-block cream-Toilet paper (you can buy it at the shop in the village)-Motivation, good humor, and communication skills-Raincoat or umbrella (during rainy season)

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