Duration: minimum 2 weeks – 1 year
Eligible: Anyone
Aim: to increase society acceptance and gain citizenship of the underprivileged and less fortunate hill tribe communities, and to learn how to fish for his or her life instead of begging for a fish every day.
Way of the project: teaching in a hill tribe school in a village in the hills
Location: a school located in the hills along Thai-Myanmar border, which is 2-3 hours drive from downtown Chiang Rai city in norther Thailand.
Lodging and food: you will be staying with a host family in a nearby village or staying at the school-teacher quarter or most likely the villagers build a hut for you if you stay much longer. 3 meals a day will be served by the school or host family depending where you stay.
Daily activity: Your teaching starts at 8:30 in the morning until 3:30 in the afternoon. After school, you are free and on your own; do whatever you like, staying in your own cottage or hiking up the hills around, or playing soccer with the school kids. You will be teaching for 5 days a week, and Saturday and Sunday are off-days for you. You either go to town spend the night and come back on Sunday afternoon to teach on Monday morning.
You will be teaching one of these subjects; English, Maths, Computer, Music and Sports depending on the your skills.
Food and Lodging expenses:
Depending on the duration of your stay, you will be teaching at one of the schools where hill tribe kids are learning. If you stay more than a month for teaching, you will be placed in a far more remote hill tribe school.
For volunteer who stays less than 4 weeks, it is 250 US$ per volunteer per week for food and lodging.
For volunteer who stays more than 4 weeks, it is of his or her own expense that can be as low as 100 US$ a week, depending on how much money is spent for your own living; foods and drinks.
Regarding visa’s stay: The local township educational department will take a responsibility for your long-term volunteer’s visa.