Volunteer with Indigenous People in Cambodia

The Bunong Community Project is located in the remote mountain town of Sen Monorom in Mondulkiri province, which is in the Eastern highland region of Cambodia that borders Vietnam.

Mondulkiri province is traditionally one of the most inaccessible, least populated, and isolated regions of Cambodia. Owing to its seclusion, semi-nomadic people known as the Bunong remain the dominant ethnic group of the region.

In recent years, the Bunong people have found their way of life increasingly under threat as Mondulkiri becomes more easily accessible to the outside world. The project focuses on supporting the Bunong people by assisting local staff to study, record, and document their unique culture, traditions, and language before they change forever.

Volunteers will be based in an office with local staff cataloging information they have collected. There may be field visits to local villages to collect information on all aspects of Bunong culture and to assist staff and aid the volunteers' understanding and learning. This may be in the form of interviews, but also through recording songs and videoing traditional aspects of the culture.