Volunteer Program

 

VOLUNTEER POSITIONS AVAILABLE!

We’re currently looking for English teachers to work in schools along the border. You'll need to be responsible for creating your own lessons but you'll have lot's of support. CLICK HERE to read about some experiences of other Blood Foundation volunteers.

 

Teaching Projects

Moung Choum Goverment School.

Co-ed. Pre-School - Grade 9. Age range 5-17.

Situated 3 km from the Burmese border and nestled among beautiful mountains, Moung Choum Government School is a wonderful cultural melting pot of the region's diverse people groups. The school is made up of roughly one third Shan Burmese, one third hill tribe children and one third local Thai students. Blood Foundation runs an OLPC project at the school with 40 XO laptops, we run a Food to Grow project here and we place volunteer English teachers into this great school. This school does have a projector that can be used.

 

 

Fang Dhammasuksa Temple School

Boys. Grade 7 - 12. Age range 11-19.

Fang Dhammasuksa school is a school for novice monks in the Fang District. Located on the grounds of Wat (Temple) Sri Boen Ruang, this school caters to boys who are orphans or whose parents are unable to take care of them. Apart from the religious training they receive as novice monks these boys are given a conventional education including Math, Science, Art, Thai and English. Many of them are very keen to learn English because it opens up so many career opportunities should they leave the monkhood later in life. Blood Foundation runs the renowned Monk for a Month project here and has been involved in English-learning programs since mid -2007.

At both schools you will be required to prepare your own lessons of approximately one hour each. Lessons can be compiled from our Blood Foundation manual or resources found on the Internet. The children are still learning basic English such as colours, numbers, greetings, occupations.

 

 

Costs:

 

• Two weeks (minimum stay) : 9000 Baht - includes accommodation, push-bike and volunteer support.
• Three weeks: 12 000 Baht - includes accommodation, push-bike and volunteer support.
• One month or multiple months: 14 000 Baht per month - includes accommodation, push-bike and volunteer support. Multiple months are very welcome by the schools.

 

More details:

• Our teaching volunteers need to be committed: our schools and children will be relying on you!
• Minimum teaching stay is two weeks.
• Teaching qualification is preferred but not essential, you will need to prepare your own lessons. You'll have alloted time to do so.
• The price for a teaching stay is 14 000 THB per month. This covers your accommodation, a push bike and volunteer support.
• Core hours of working are 8.00-16.00 Monday to Friday, which includes time for lesson preparation.
• You will be placed in a school (or schools) depending on the need at the time, which will be decided by your volunteer co-ordinator.

You can fill out an on-line application form (http://bloodfoundation.org/culture/volunteer/form).

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Some Other Projects - FYI

FLOW – Income generation project for woman’s group in a Shan Refugee camp. We sell Ethical Trade hand woven scarves and bags made by women who are not free to bring these quality products to market.

FOOD TO GROW – Many groups in this region are suffering from malnourishment. The Food to Grow program teaches children valuable agricultural skills while providing them and their familles with nutrient-rich produce.

LEARN TO LIVE - Working together with other NGOs and teams inside Burma the Learn to Live project is getting valuable education projects into Burmese communities.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SOFTWARE – Our vision is to build some effective English language learning software from the ground up specifically for the purpose of teaching children in developing countries the language of the world.

 

 

What are we looking for from our volunteers?

• People with valuable skills that can be applied to any or all of our projects.
• Energetic, passionate, self-motivated people to help us drive projects forward.
• ‘Ideas people’ who come up with new ways to offer support and add value to our team and community.
• Experience is desirable but not essential: most important is a willingness to get involved, and an honest commitment to and interest in our projects.
• For teaching projects your English language skills need to be of a demonstrably high level and you must have the confidence to stand in front of a class. They are beautiful and mostly well behaved children.

It's easy to apply, just fill out our on-line application form (http://bloodfoundation.org/culture/volunteer/form).