Volunteers for Peace Vietnam (VPV) - ICYE

VOLUTEER’S REQUIREMETS
The volunteer should
- Be flexible, creative, patient
- Have experience with children
- Be ready to work with heavily disabled children
- Know activities, games, songs that disabled children
can enjoy
- Appreciate to live in the countryside.
VOLUTEER’S TASKS
UMBER OF VOLUTEERS I
PROJECT
HOST SITUATIO
The volunteers will help the disabled children in their daily
activities by organizing leisure activities and trying to
encourage them to communicate with others. Volunteers also
join painting, drawing classes for the children at the centre.
Besides, they can organize English classes for the staff at the
centre, communication classes for the people living nearby
welfare centre or students studying at some universities.
- Helping children with daily activities
- Organizing leisure activities
- Join painting/ drawing classes
- Organize English classes for the staff
- Organizing communication classes for the people living
nearby the centre
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Volunteers will stay in an accommodation in the centre. They
should expect a Vietnamese standard, which means sleeping on
dormitory beds or on the floor and sharing bathrooms with the
children.
The centre does not allow hotel-stays; the volunteers are
obligated to live in the centre.
AME OF PROJECT
Social Welfare 4
Vietnam Friendship Village
LOCATIO
COUTRY
THEME OR TYPE OF PROJECT
AIMS OF THE PROJECT
PROJECT’S ACTIVITIES
Around 15 kilometres from Hanoi
Vietnam
Mentally and physically disabled children and war veterans
The aim of the program is to provide an opportunity for the
children in the village to open themselves with the community,
especially with foreign volunteers. This will also enable the
volunteers to learn about the continued consequence of the war
which ended 3 decades ago to give a hand to heal the wound.
Vietnam Friendship Village opened its doors in 1993 to treat
children and veterans suffering from the effects of Agent
Orange (which was used during the US-Vietnam War). The