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My name is Wisnu. I live in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I have my own business with my friends, we created an environmental consultant. We help our clients to do an environmental impact assessment for their projects. By making a right arrangement for the projects, we contribute to create a sustainable development.
Besides running my business, I am also an English teacher in a middle school, NGO, orphanage, and my community. The school where I am teaching is a small private school in a village with limited financial support. Most of the students come from a poor family with various problems. They go to school and live in a orphanage for free. I also teach English in the orphanage. Even though there are many obstacles, the students are always excited to learn, especially English. In order to give a real and meaningful learning, I asked my friends from other countries to teach English when they were in Yogyakarta. I have done it with many friends from many countries. As the result, the students became more confident to speak English and interact with a foreigner.
I have been teaching at the school for the last one and a half year and I want to keep teaching. Actually I have been busy with my own business but I do really want to help the school since there was no any English teachers who want to teach because of low salary and many factors. I want to boost my students' energy to enrich their insight with global minded perspective by presenting them foreigner from many countries. I want them to not only learning English, but also learning about the culture from various countries.
Due to I can't make sure the visit of my friends from other countries, I need such kind of volunteer to teach my students and give a cross culture.Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
Charity Work
Language practice
Teaching
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
The travellers can feel different culture from my village which has a great local wisdom. They can learn from my students who come from a poor family, how hard they earn an education. My village is a place where the Javanese values are the most important things. The travellers can learn about the local culture. They also can see beautiful views, wide rice fields, waterfall, beaches, lake, pine forests, and many more.
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Help
I need a volunteer to teach English and/or other languages. It doesn't have to be a real teacher. I just need a person who can share about the culture and anything from the country. It also doesn't mean teaching in a strict class. It's just like a club to learn English and/or other languages and cross culture.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Indonesian: FluentThis 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
The travellers can stay at my home. We have a proper and comfortable room which would be their private room. We also will provide free meals, refreshment, motorcycle, anything the travellers need to run the activities well. The foods in my village are suitable for any foreigners. We have a delicious local dishes. I'm sure that it will be fit for the travellers' taste.
I'll give foods for the volunteer or travelers freely. The foods in my area are easy to be tasted and accepted by the new people, even form different country. We have various local dishes with many flavor. They are salty, sweet, savory, and so on. I have friends from some countries and they were okay with our foods. There's no any problems after they eat our foods.What else ...
I can take the travellers to sightseeing. We can explore the nature because we have many great panorama. We also can make local dishes, hand crafts, batik, and many more. I have motorcycle that the travellers can ride. The travellers also can ride the motorbike with me. We can go surrounding to see the local people with various background. The travellers also can see how we might be change because there will be a new airport to be built in our regency.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
Can possibly accept pets
This host has said they are willing to accept those travelling with a pet.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 4 hours a day, 4 days a week
Feedback (5)
Cedric shared a lot of things about France in general and his hometown specifically.… read more
I really enjoyed participating to these clases (a few times a week, I would't have minded having more actually!!). It is all… read more
I know it took time to write this review ,but you know how busy i am ;).
I spent more or less 1 month with Wisnu, he let me feel comfortable since the first day.
Unfortunately i wasn't allowed everyday to take part of the class in the school but
he carried me to other communities and we had lots of fun together, learning english with… read more
Not… read more
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Cedric shared a lot of things about France in general and his hometown specifically.… read more
I really enjoyed participating to these clases (a few times a week, I would't have minded having more actually!!). It is all… read more
I know it took time to write this review ,but you know how busy i am ;).
I spent more or less 1 month with Wisnu, he let me feel comfortable since the first day.
Unfortunately i wasn't allowed everyday to take part of the class in the school but
he carried me to other communities and we had lots of fun together, learning english with… read more
Not… read more
Lenni (his nickname that I love) has a big heart and sincerity. It was… read more
thank you so much for the month we spent together in August 2019. If I want to tell you and future workawayers about the time, i don't even know where to start...
Wisnu is one of the most welcoming and caring persons i met in my life! I'm serious and I met many many peoples all over the world. Right from the beginning he took great… read more
Helping him with his classes is so fun, it’s basically talking with the students and people and it is a perfect opportunity for everyone to learn a lot about the others.
Wisnu is so generous, always trying to help the others and he did the same with me. We visited a lot… read more