Description

Volunteer in a real and affordable grass roots project, offering relevant and qualified support to volunteers. Learn, teach and work with local people, 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; activity based language, culture and teach training, lots of practical tasks. You learn something then you immediately use what you learned.

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. Fees start from USD 195 and up depending on type and length of placement.

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.

Languages

• English

Cost in US$:

From USD 195

Cost Includes:

• Food
• Housing
• In-country orientation/Training
• In-country staff support
• Language instruction
• Pre-departure orientation/Training
• Registration fees
• Written materials abroad
• Written materials pre-departure

Program Fees Include:

What You Get For The Fee:
* Volunteer placement
* Pre Departure Preparation Information
* 3 day In-country Orientation
* Homestay or other accommodation
* All meals at the placement
* English speaking contact persons in Thailand and Laos
* Travel advice
* Important documents, including pre-departure packs

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

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 + 80

This Program is open to

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

Typical Living Arrangements

• Apartment/Flat
• Group living
• Home-stays
• Independent living

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

Independently or in Groups of 2-4

Application Process Involves

• Letters of Reference
• Resume
• Written Application

Typically The Application Process Time is

One - two weeks

Post Services Include

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

Open mind projects's Mission Statement

To bridge the knowledge divide between the rich and poor. We do this by helping the underprivileged gain access to better learning opportunities with the help of modern information technology and international volunteers; To contribute to the fight against increasing threats to our environment, nature, and wildlife; To offer international volunteers unique opportunities to help bridge knowledge divides and to help save nature, while growing as persons in our grassroots education and eco projects.

Year Founded

2001