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This is a small community learning center located in Belopa, a peaceful town in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Our mission is to help local students improve their English skills, build confidence, and broaden their perspectives by connecting them with people from different cultures around the world.
Most of our students are children and teenagers who are eager to learn English but rarely have the opportunity to interact with native or international speakers. That is why volunteers play an important role in our learning activities.
What Volunteers Do Here
As a volunteer, your main role is to interact with students in a fun and friendly environment. You don't need to be a professional teacher. The most important thing is your willingness to communicate and share your experiences.
Some of the activities include:
1. Having casual English conversations with students
2. Asking them questions and encouraging them to speak
3. Answering their questions about language, culture, or daily life
4. Playing simple educational games in English
5. Helping students practice speaking and listening
6. Sharing stories about your country and culture
Our classes are designed to be relaxed, interactive, and enjoyable. Students love activities like games, discussions, and cultural exchange.
What Volunteers Gain
Volunteering with us is not only about helping students, but also about experiencing authentic local life in Indonesia.
As a volunteer, you will experience:
1. Meaningful cultural exchange with local students and community members
2. A chance to make a real impact on students’ confidence in speaking English
3. Experience living in a small Indonesian town away from tourist crowds
4. Opportunities to learn about Indonesian culture, food, and traditions
5. Warm hospitality from our local community
6. Accommodation and Meals
We will provide a simple place for you to stay. The accommodation is modest but comfortable enough for daily living.
We also provide home-cooked meals so you can experience traditional local food. Sometimes we also go out to eat together, and when we eat outside, everyone usually pays for their own meal.
Our Environment
Belopa is a quiet and friendly town where life moves at a slower pace. It is a great place if you want to experience authentic Indonesian daily life, interact closely with local people, and enjoy a peaceful environment.
Our community is welcoming, and students are always excited to meet volunteers from different parts of the world.
Who We Are Looking For
1. We welcome volunteers who are:
2. Friendly and open-minded
3. Interested in cultural exchange
4. Enjoy interacting with children and teenagers
5. Willing to communicate in English with students
6. Respectful of local culture
You don't need teaching experience — your presence, conversation, and enthusiasm are already very valuable to our students.
If you would like to experience local Indonesian life while making a positive impact on students, we would be very happy to welcome you.
We look forward to meeting you and sharing a meaningful experience together.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Language practice
Teaching
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Hospitality/Tourism
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Volunteers will experience authentic Indonesian daily life by living closely with our family and community in Belopa, South Sulawesi. This is not a tourist experience, but a real cultural exchange where travellers share their stories and culture while learning about ours.
They will interact with enthusiastic students, enjoy homemade local food, and experience the warmth and hospitality of a small Indonesian town. Volunteers can also learn basic Indonesian language, local traditions, and how community life works here.
Through conversations, games, and daily interactions, volunteers and students learn from each other, build friendships, and create meaningful cross-cultural experiences. Many visitors say this experience gives them a deeper understanding of Indonesia than traveling as a tourist. 🌏🤝
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
What you will do here:
1. You just need to have an easy and relax conversation with our students.
2. It's a freestyle teaching method. Freely to share knowledge with the students(eg. English discuss, Reading storybooks, or storytelling, watching movies together)
3. You can conduct any fun games in order to improve English among the students And share ideas among our teachers.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Indonesian: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
We can exchange languages and cultures. We speak English, Bahasa Indonesia, Luwu, and Buginess (two of these two languages are our mother tongue) You can learn our mother tongue language too :)
Accommodation
Accommodation Type
For accommodation, we will provide a simple place to stay. It is not luxurious, but it is comfortable and part of our daily local lifestyle. You will stay with us, so it will also be a good opportunity to experience how we live, share meals, and interact as a small community.
We hope this will make your stay feel more personal and give you a closer experience of local culture here.
What else ...
Belopa is the capital of the Luwu regency in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Luwu is famous for its beautiful panorama in the mountains, rice fields, rivers and beaches that can be found in almost every village in Luwu Regency. In the city of Belopa itself, the people generally work as fishermen, farmers, and office jobs both in government and private sector. There are also small hotels which are certainly not as tall as hotels in big cities in Indonesia. People of Belopa are very friendly to foreigners visiting this place.. Opu Senga (The King's title for the descendants of the Luwu nobility) is very friendly and welcomes foreign guests. This is evident when one of our friends from Germany, Mr. Paul, visited our place as educational volunteers. Not only providing him with accommodation facilities at the Luwu Traditional House, Opu also allowed Mr. Paul to take part in the regional royal event, when the descendants of royal members from all over Luwu Raya met.
Some of the tourist attractions that are close to our place are:
1. Andi Djemma Park and Andi Benni Park, Belopa city. Located in the central of Belopa
Facilities: View of Mount Belopa City, Football field, Basketball court, Badminton court, Green Open Space for public.
2. The Posang beach is in the Posang tourist village, North Belopa district, Luwu Regency. Distance from the city center ± 7 km. The facilities offered are gazebos, local culinary delights, wooden bridges built around mangrove trees and the sea make this place worthy of being a selfie spot.
3. Sempadan, Padang-padang River. Kurrusumanga village, Belopa district. Luwu Regency. Distance from the city center ± 5 km. The facilities offered are views of the river surrounded by green trees and the view of mountains from a distance.
4. Paddy field cruising bridge. Kurrusumanga village, Belopa district, Luwu Regency. Distance from the city center ± 5 km. The facilities offered are view of rice fields that can be explored over the colorful bridges.
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We are smokers
Can host families
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I stayed there for 3 weeks and
since the beginning, I truly felt welcome and treated like a part of their family. (We became like family)
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I stayed there for 3 weeks and
since the beginning, I truly felt welcome and treated like a part of their family. (We became like family)
They treat you as good as they can and just want the best for their… read more
the learning She did was very beneficial for us and our students.
Miss Wendy is a communicative and caring teacher. She always tries to help in every activity we do in teaching or activities together with… read more
Mr Y and Miss Indah are very very kind and welcoming and will treat you like family while you are there. They will do… read more
The town is all green, and I could do my studies at many coffee shops there. All of them are very quiet, simple, and have good beverage quality.
I stayed… read more
This one is far to be the closest to perfection I've found about locality , you feel immersed completely into the Sulawesi lifestyle of Indonesia.
The family here is a couple Mr Y and Miss Indah and they are the warmest heart I've encountered, you… read more
Miss Indah and Mr Y are doing an phenomenal job with the kids, and it's clear that they're… read more
I… read more
I felt from the very first moment part of the beautiful family they are, i’ve always been taken cared (since the moment I landed in Makassar), having laughs, joining activities and events, and of course, helping out with the wonderful project they started.… read more
During… read more
They stayed in our simply place and they ate our simply food without complain at all.
Many Times they asked what they can help us..
Belopa people like to take picture so much with foreigner and they never say no if someone asked to take picture… read more
Mostly we talked to the children and played games with them. The people from Belopa love to see… read more
She never say no if we need some help from her. She help us to assist our teacher in English class and share her experience to our student in many ways. She had many ideas to make fun games to play with our student. With guitar,paper or even… read more
I had a chance to become not only part of the team, but also a part of their family.
Mr Y’s ambition is to give affordable education to young people to make better future for them, and he works extra HARD for it.
Mrs Indah is very caring and always making sure… read more
I’ve stayed with Mr Y, Miss Indah and Miss Hasma for two weeks.
Short: it was amazing!
They made me feel welcome and safe, they always make sure your own plans can be combined with the teaching/sharing your knowledge with the kids.
Miss Hasma helped me with studying my Bahasa, Miss Indah went with me to go exploring arround Balopa and… read more
