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Enjoy our rural life and help our village children practice English in Quang Nam province, Vietnam

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Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: at least 1 month

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  • Description

    Description

    Dear Workawayers, welcome to our Farm:
    I’m Ha. I was born and raised in a poor village in the middle of central Vietnam and as a child, I dreamt that one day I could make a change within my village and help my local people to live better lives. After graduating from university in Vietnam, I spent more than 5 years living and studying abroad in places such as Israel, Singapore and Denmark. I worked as an agricultural and tourism volunteer in more than 20 countries around the world and at the end of 2021, I returned to my village and started an organic farming and education project.

    The mission of this project:
    - Create an environment for cultural exchange between international volunteers, Vietnamese interns and the local Vietnamese community through sharing cuisine, cultural practices, and language.
    - Provide the village children with free access to English classes; allowing them to learn another language, understand different cultural perspectives, push themselves outside of their comfort zones, build confidence, and develop themselves so that one day, they too can make a change to their hometown.
    - Preserve traditional agricultural methods, practices, and values by inviting children to visit the farm for a day and experience what it’s like to be a farmer.
    - Share our knowledge of agriculture and agricultural tourism with the local community and demonstrate how these can help people escape poverty, sustainably.

    My objective is not to make money from the poor village people but instead, to provide them with opportunities and resources, to develop themselves and change their economic circumstances. For this reason, I work hard every day in the city of De Nang to make money to reinvest in the farm so that we can continue to help the village children for free.
    We are also building small projects, providing chargeable services to city children and reinvesting the profits into maintaining and developing our farm.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Charity Work
    Art Projects
    Language practice
    Help with Eco Projects
    Teaching
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    Help with Computers/ Internet
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Discover the Vietnamese culture and customs through meals, daily life, traditional landscape and festival.
    You can join with us in Wedding party, memory party, festival to understand our culture, learning how to cook Vietnamese dishes, explore the surrounding, playing sports with local,…

  • Help

    Help

    During your stay you will:
    1) Complete 2 x daily tasks on the farm per day. Allocated daily, these tasks include gardening, caring for the animals, cleaning and cooking lunch & dinner for the group.
    5 hours per day. Max 25 hours per week.
    2) Assist with providing free English lessons to the village’s kids and the kids from the city. We have summer camping from June to August with alot of activitis.
    3) Help with decorating the farm to make it a bright and colourful space for everyone to enjoy.
    4) Babysit my son when required.
    5) Organise and oversee games on the farm 😊
    Anyone is welcome to come and stay at our farm and no prior training or skills are required. If you have an appreciation for nature, agriculture, and sustainable farming then why not come along and help us achieve our mission?!

    *English lessons are subject to public holidays and will not run during Tet and rainy season. From september to December we dont have kids come to the farm because of its raining season
    This place is a strategy game that requires teamwork, navigation, communication and planning.
    *The game will take place in the woods and fields that surround the farm and take 3-4 hours to complete.
    Teams will be provided with;
    - Water gun
    - ⁠Maps
    - ⁠Compasses
    - ⁠Boots
    - ⁠Instructions

    The game will be recorded and footage sent to participants as a souvenir.
    This is a chargeable activity. The fee to take part is: _____ per person.

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent

    This host offers a language exchange
    This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
    You can contact them directly for more information.

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    We are very pleased to welcome you and stay in our farm, our house:
    - Option to stay in our farm house (8 x bunk beds), camp in tents or stay in our family home.
    - Our family home is as a 10 minute walk from the farm. This is where you’ll enjoy lunch and dinner everyday.
    - Different, delicious food for lunch and dinner
    - Free WIFI.
    - you can rent a scooter at our place instead of renting a scooter in Hoi An (5.5$) like previous volunteers for 4.5$/day.
    -Free laundry.
    -Free special Herb tea from our farm.
    Please bring a copy of your passport and e-visa so that we can register your temporary stay.
    - You can choose to stay at tent( we will provide allthing). Camping at the house has roof( no worry about rain or wet...)

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    How to get to our house by 2 options:
    Location:
    Phu Tho, Que Son District, Quang Nam, Vietnam.
    26km from Hoi An Old Town
    43km from My Son (World Cultural Heritage Site)
    43km from Da Nang City.
    10km from a natural waterfall.
    How to get here:

    Option 1)
    Take a bus from Da Nang – Que Son at Da Nang bus station ( must be at the bus station before 2pm, after that no bus)
    From our farm to Đà Nẵng has more 2 bus, one at 7:10am, one at 1:00pm.
    The cost is 50,000vnd/person.

    Option 2)
    Use Grab app to go to our house.
    Address to use: P7RW+9R8, Thon Phuoc Chanh, Que Son, Quang Nam, Vietnam.
    The farm is a 8 minute walk or 2 minute drive from here.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    This host can provide space for campervans.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    Maximum 5 hours a day for teaching English or helping at the farm

Host ref number: 356124853158

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