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Our Foundation is an educational program for Sri Lankan children aged 5 to 19, set in Sri Lanka. We teach the children in Anuradhapura (170 km from Colombo Airport) and Kurunegala (73 km from Colombo Airport) districts from two Academies. Here we have the on site online classes simultaneously for the children from any district of the entire country. We also support the nearby public schools by sending our Workawayers to them during the mornings to assist those students if and when necessary.
The Academy was set up 25 years ago and has played a pivotal role in thousands of students’ lives directly and indirectly. Our aim is to connect these very talented young people to the rest of the world and to allow them to realize the potential they have. We need to persuade them for higher educational opportunities, vocational, technical, sports, and fine arts-related careers as these students are full of those talents.
Volunteers would be required to teach English, computers, science, mathematics, geography, commerce, history, and health. Singing, dancing, painting, music, and other forms of artistic expression are also strongly encouraged! Sports are given a big place in the evenings too. We promote American football, baseball, basketball, cricket, and soccer at the Academy. We need coaches for these sports. You can be a professional or an amateur coach, we don't mind as long as you are ready to find resources and techniques.
As a volunteer, you would be provided with food and accommodation from one of the students’ families. We ask you to give 5 hours a day, 5 days a week in return. You are free to take weekend trips to beautiful places of your interest and we can recommend the best places to visit.
Each volunteer has to pay us 56 USD PER WEEK (8 USD per day) for food expenses. The volunteer can pay this DIRECTLY TO THE HOST FAMILY IN CASH and the volunteer will get A RECEIPT FROM THE FAMILY FOR THIS PAYMENT for the volunteer’s record purposes if needed. You are expected to pay this THE DAY YOU REACH THE HOST FAMILY AND WEEKLY thereafter.
Sri Lankan village families can cook authentic Sri Lankan cuisine. If you want, you can learn the ways by spending some time with your host family in the kitchen and learn yourselves. You can take the recipients back home. For many of our former volunteers, this is fun to do. If you like, you can cook a meal or two from your country to give a flavor of your tastes to your hosts.
The work is enjoyable and thoroughly rewarding, and life here is very beautiful with a strong sense of community. If you're looking for an exchange of culture away from the tourist path, this may be for you! We provide a certificate with the number of days and hours you volunteer in case it becomes helpful to you someway. Please collect it before you leave. If you forget this, we can still send you a digital copy.
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Trabajo de caridad
Proyectos artísticos
Práctica de idiomas
Ayuda en proyectos ecológicos
Enseñanza
Jardinería
Construcción y bricolaje
Ayuda en una granja
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Hostelería/turismo
Mantenimiento general
Ayuda informática
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
The area we operate in is semi-urban with beautiful and exotic landscapes. You would be living with a local Sri Lankan family who will share their culture with you in exchange for yours. The people here are very friendly and welcoming. Working with the children is also very rewarding, they are a very talented and wonderful bunch of individuals!
Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
Volunteers would be required to teach English, basic IT, social media marketing and play educational games with the children. Singing, dancing, painting and other forms of expression also strongly encouraged! Sports are given a big place in the evenings too.
Idiomas
Idiomas hablados
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Alojamiento
In a pretty decent house with a local family. You will have your own bedroom and will be provided with 3 meals a day and snacks between meals with tea. coffee or fruit juice and be very well looked after.
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There are attractive sites of archeological importance in the area. Also, the place where we operate is in the central part of Sri Lanka with easy access to any part of Sri Lanka by public transport (buses/trains) and professional taxi services with English-speaking drivers at affordable prices.
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Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
Este anfitrión ha indicado que le encanta acoger a nómadas digitales.
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
Este anfitrión puede proporcionar un sitio para autocaravanas.
Podría aceptar mascotas
Este anfitrión dice que acepta a viajeros con mascotas.
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Más de dos
Horas esperadas
4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Este anfitrión cobra una tarífa
leer másUS$8 per day - paid direct to host family for help with food costs
Comentarios (21)
If you know how to bond with kids and enjoy spending time with them, you are gonna love this place. There are… read more
At first, you were not that confident that you would be comfortable teaching the students but with time you made yourself attractive to the students and they reached you with ease. I too struggled when I took up a teaching job 25 years ago but now I cannot live a single day without being with my sweet students. I am not that… read more
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If you know how to bond with kids and enjoy spending time with them, you are gonna love this place. There are… read more
At first, you were not that confident that you would be comfortable teaching the students but with time you made yourself attractive to the students and they reached you with ease. I too struggled when I took up a teaching job 25 years ago but now I cannot live a single day without being with my sweet students. I am not that… read more
Kids enjoyed the trips they went on with you in Anuradhapura and Mihintale. They were good ice-breakers for some of the shy kids to start speaking English.
Online lessons were interesting. Discussions with the on-site kids gave them ample opportunity to expand their horizons too.
One request from all of us, come back!
I stayed at the house of one of the students they where super welcoming and i directly like a part of there family. They always tried to… read more
I liked it very much. My time at the… read more
You are really thrown in at the deep end and challenged to come up with activities but you quickly get into the swing of things!
My host family was… read more
The host family and their three kids miss her a lot even now… read more
Charlotte was a very good teacher and also a great humanitarian. She went beyond teaching by donating a wheelchair to a student… read more
It was my first workaway experience. I was teaching english to children in the afternoon after their school. Children were very curious and happy to learn new… read more
We stayed in Ralapanawa village for two weeks with the best host family we could have asked for. Nadeeka and Rohana took us in as one of their own. We can't speak highly enough of the two of them. They are always happy and up for a great laugh. Nadeeka's… read more
Aysen was an easygoing young girl who had a very creative mind. She was the… read more
I spent a week with the best host family, Nadeeka, Rohana and their two beautiful children at Ralapanawa. They're all so lovely, generous and smiling always and Nadeeka is a really great cook.
I was teaching… read more
Great local food, great sharing, thank you Nanda for the opportunity !
We would love to host her again and again if… read more
Living in the nature and sharing the everyday task with the family and the kids from school made me embrace the simplicity of life.… read more
I stayed with two Sri Lankan' families, they are really kind, they made me feel like home and as a men bed of their family.
I only have… read more
Lea’s outstanding teaching at school and foundation made her the center of attraction in this remote farming community. Her understanding about the Sri Lankan village culture made her… read more
I was teaching English in the public school in the morning and fell in love with the kids from the very first moment. I will keep their smiles and "teeeeacher, very beautiful, selfie selfie selfie" for… read more
I hosted by a local family , i feel like i were in my family , they are… read more
I was hosted… read more
