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The goal of our project is to develop the island and create new opportunities for the villagers and the children. We focus on education, employment, environment and promoting our traditional lifestyle.
On the island there are 150 people living in 70 families. Lifestyle is traditional. the community is more or less self-substainable. The island is on the Mekong river, it is surrounded by a green tree belt, in the middle there are many rice fields. The sunset is beautifull, the people are very welcoming. There is a trail that leads around the island for walking. It is located in 4000islands region, Champasak, Laos.
Gardening
Building
Farmstay
Help with Eco project
Language practice
Art project
Help with Computers / internet
Teaching
The volunteers stay at the homestay. So you will live with a lao family in the middle of a traditional village and share with them the daily life. It will be the opportunity to learn the language and discover how lao people from the countryside are like.
You will learn the different traditional techniques, how to cook sticky rice and lao food, make lao lao white whiskey or fish in the Mekong river. Moreover, your host who was a monk before can introduce you to Buddhism teachings and to the practice of meditation.
October - May:
As a volunteer you will teach English to the local children in the afternoon for about 2 hours. Around that you will have to prepare for the lessons through communication with the other volunteers. As the project is reasonably new we could do with help all around. I'm looking for people who can take the initiative, who are self motivated and can carry a task from start to finish. Aside from teaching tasks other help like promoting the project and the homestay online, general organisation or help with construction is needed. You are expected to work a minimum of 7 days, Monday to Friday.
June - September:
We need volunteers to help my family predominantly with farmwork around the rice paddies as there's no school.
At the moment we're also looking for a professional photographer or videographer to help improve our social media presence.
cultural exchange
Volunteers stay at the homestay along side my family. The place is secluded, so there are no shops or Wifi. We value the simple things in life.
We're trying to introduce the volunteers into the traditional lao lao culture. Some of the group activities are:
> visit the local lao lao factory (local whisky)
> boat trip to the markets
> Friday night BBQ
> visit local festivals
> fishing in the the Mekong river
> learn how to make sticky rice
>making baskets out of bamboos
>build bamboo huts
Lao, English
You will have a private room with a fan at the homestay. There is a communal bathroom, no shower. You can wash yourselves in the river, like the locals do, or Lao style in the "bathroom". As we don't charge the families for the lessons and as we don't have a regular income, we can't provide you with free meals. So we charge a fee of 60,000 Kip per day for 3 meals. You'll have free drinking water, as well as hot water, tea and coffee all day.
Internet connexion is working through my hotspot, ask me if you need it. You can also get cards for quite cheap.
During your free time you can do anything you want: play the guitar or the "kene" (bamboo traditional instrument), swim in the river, relax at the beach, go picnic and enjoy the local festivals around. At the homestay we offer a range of activities and tours. We also have motorbikes that you can rent to discover 4000 island area. We have a boat to collect you and bring you to the main road and you can spend 1 night for camping on the beach for BBQ, if you like we can show you how to grow rice and how to cook lao food .
You will see, our island is a very warm and friendly place and local villagers will welcome you with their smile!
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
More than two
Maximum 2 and a half hours a day, 5 days a week
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