Kindergarten Volunteer Project

Working with kindergartners is one of the most enjoyable Bangkok volunteer activities Friends For Asia has found. For children this age, school is all about planning activities, building social skills, and learning how the world works. So for volunteers who plan on signing up for the Kindergarten Teaching Project, prepare to have a lot of fun. Volunteers will probably find that they start picking up Thai faster than other volunteers in Bangkok because kindergarten-age children are not averse to correcting pronunciation. After all, the grown-ups around them are always correcting theirs! The time these kindergartners spend at school involve some of the only meaningful interaction that they have with people who come from outside of the slum in which they are growing up. The basic academic ...