Enjoy surfing and skating whilst practising English with the local kids in Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka

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  Description

  Hello!
  
  We are a surf-skate hostel located in the village of Arugam Bay, we first opened in August 2023 and are currently open for the Arugam Bay season 2025! We are a surf-skating hostel, we are proud to have opened Arugam Bays first ever skate park! Our high season runs from May-October!
  
  The skate park is within our hostel along with dorm rooms, a private room, basketball ring, restaurant and communal areas.
  
  We are a backpackers hostel that is becoming quite popular, especially among those who share the interest of skating. Our skate park is open for everyone, free to use for our guests and any visitors. We also organise surf trips daily, safaris and camping trips!
  
  The hostel is located outside of town of Arugam Bay. Please note: it is around a 10-15 minute walk.
  
  At our hostel, we have chosen to help the local kids with learning English, whilst they also boost their skate skills - so we are looking for a volunteer.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Charity Work

  Teaching

  Babysitting and creative play
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Here volunteers will be living at our hostel and everyone is treated as family. We all eat dinner together most nights, surf daily together and skate together.
  
  You will be a part of our journey to create a safe space for the kids and you will also be interacting with lots of locals who live in this area and become a part of the Arugam Bay community.

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  We are looking for a volunteer superstar! Someone passionate about helping with younger kids (aged 6-16), someone who is eager and ready to assimilate into our family!
  
  We host 1 hour english practise 5x per week, afterwards the kids have a 1 hr skate session. The sessions run every day excluding Fridays from 4-5 pm.
  
  We are looking for someone who is capable of helping kids learn and who has varying levels of English. We want to improve their conversational English as much as possible, games, dancing, writing; however you choose to help works for us! I am preferably looking for someone who can also develop lesson plans that flow seamlessly into one another - we don't want to be choosing random topics every day as they will likely forget if it has no flow
  
  There are around 30 kids in total, split into 2 groups depending on age, Group A will have class 3 times a week, Group B 3 times a week, alternating days.
  
  How you help is up to you! We are looking for someone who is passionate about learning with and teaching kids - experience is preferable!

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  Languages spoken

  English: Fluent
  Sinhalese: Fluent
  Tamil: Fluent

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  Accommodation

  You will receive free accomodation daily (a dorm room) and will have access to make meals in our kitchen (provided you supply your own ingredients) . Whenever you choose to host family dinners, cooked by our chef, (2-4 times per week)- you will eat those meals for free!
  
  You will also have free laundry.
  
  We have some boards available at the hostel, if any of them suit your needs you are able to use for free.

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  What else ...

  Arugam Bay is full of great night life, great food and great surf. There are so many surf spots around. You can learn to skate at our hostel, there are also jungle safaris and camping trips that we can organise. Arugam Bay will become quite busy during high season meaning you will make plenty of new friends and meet travellers from all over the globe!
  
  Our hostel is located around a 15 minute walk from Arugam Bay town, we are located in the village!

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  One

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  My animals / pets

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