 Volunteer in Thailand
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If you do not see the volunteer program you want, look under Worldwide for volunteer programs located in several different regions.
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Cross-Cultural Solutions: Volunteer Abroad for the Experience of a Lifetime!
Experience another culture like never before while making a real difference in people’s lives. You’ll gain perspectives and insights into the local culture and yourself. It’s an exciting and personally inspiring experience, and you’ll develop memories that will be with you forever. Programs operate in Bangkok and Trang, Thailand.
Dates Offered: Choose from start dates year-round and lengths-of-stay from 2-12 weeks.
Costs: The U.S. tax-deductible program fee for a two-week program is $2,588 (£1,408) with each additional week of stay only $297 (£162). The program fee for the one-week Insight Abroad program offered in Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, and Russia is $1,695 (£922). Program fee includes: personalized Volunteer Placement, language instruction, cultural education, food, lodging, transportation to and from all Cross-Cultural Solutions’ placements and programs, pre-departure guidance from headquarters staff, 24-hour access to in-country staff, travel medical and emergency evacuation insurance, and more.
Contact: Cross-Cultural Solutions, 2 Clinton Place, New Rochelle, NY 10801;Tel: 800.380.4777 or 914.632.0022; in the UK call 0845 458 2781/2782; other countries call +44 (0) 1273 666392; Fax: 914.632.8494.
Email: info@crossculturalsolutions.org
Website: www.crossculturalsolutions.org
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Volunteer Teaching in Ao Luk
Travel to the southwest coast of Thailand to volunteer with children in the rural town of Ao Luk. This exquisite location in the idyllic Andaman region, near white sand beaches and tropical jungles, is an exciting place to become immersed in local culture and help the community improve their future, while experiencing a side of Thailand that so many tourists miss out on.
Teach English in local schools so that children can develop their English skills and have better education and work opportunities. Our goal is to help these communities improve their quality of life through education and maintain their unique culture.
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Dates: 2 to 12 week durations available, visit the website for upcoming start dates
Costs: From $1692 for 2 weeks
Email Contact: info@gviworld.com
Phone Contact: +1 888 653 6028 (USA) or +44 (0) 1727 250 250 (UK)
Where do I go from here? Visit the website for more information on this teaching abroad project
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Volunteer Teaching in Krabi, Thailand
This volunteer teaching program is located in the Krabi Province of Thailand, Asia and volunteers are immersed into the local community from the start. Volunteers will be teaching adults aged 15-80 whilst simultaneously training to become a qualified TEFL (Teach English as a Foreign Language) teacher. Durations range from 2 to 10 weeks, but staying longer means you can gain extra teaching experience at the local community center or local schools, and benefit from the support of GVI's on-site staff and teacher trainers. During your time on the project optional cultural and adventure trips are offered to help you explore and experience the most of this exciting region. GVI offers a job placement service to all GVI TEFL graduates, assisting them in finding paid work placements in local communities around the world or paid positions in the TEFL Industry. GVI is listed as an Institutional Member of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) and is a Member the College of Teachers (CoT).
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Dates: 2 to 12 week durations available, visit the website for upcoming start dates
Costs: From $1692 for 2 weeks
Email Contact: info@gviworld.com
Phone Contact: +1 888 653 6028 (USA) or +44 (0) 1727 250 250 (UK)
Where do I go from here? Visit the website for more information on this teaching abroad project
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Volunteer in Thailand with Children
This is a great opportunity for those interested in volunteering in Thailand who want to make a real difference but have little time to spare. Situated in a stunning part of Thailand famed for its beautiful beaches, you can volunteer with children and local communities to help them learn English as a means of assisting them to take control of their own local development. Volunteer to assist communities that are rapidly developing or are participating in community based tourism as a means of preserving their own unique culture.
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Dates: 2 to 10 week durations available, visit the website for upcoming start dates
Costs: From $1190 for 2 weeks
Email Contact: info@gviworld.com
Phone Contact: +1 888 653 6028 (USA) or +44 (0) 1727 250 250 (UK)
Where do I go from here? Visit the website for more information on volunteering with children
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How will you touch the world? Volunteer in Thailand
REAL projects….REAL experience! Work side-by-side with NGOs to find innovative ways to confront development challenges in Thailand – from education efforts to eradicate illiteracy and promote natural resource conservation to micro-business consulting to health campaigns to combat anemia, malnutrition, and HIV/AIDS. More information at www.myproworld.org/internships.htm.
Dates: Year round start dates; 2 – 26 week placements
Cost: Program fees include project work, housing, all meals, onsite transportation, language training, cultural/adventure activities, travel/health insurance, and 24-hour onsite staff support. Program fees can be found online at www.myproworld.org/costs/prices.htm. Scholarships and fundraising support available.
Contact: ProWorld Headquarters, ProWorld Service Corps, 1215 Taylor Avenue, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA
Tel: 877.42WORLD (US & Canada), 870.750.7202 (UK & Europe)
Email: info@myproworld.org
Website: www.myproworld.org
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Projects Abroad in Thailand
Projects Abroad is the world’s leading short-term international volunteer organization.
Projects start year-round and last from one week to a year. Opportunities exist in teaching, care, conservation and medicine. Programs are for ages 16+.
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Dates: Start any day you choose.
Cost: Please see our website for prices.
Contact: Projects Abroad, 347 West 36th Street, Suite 903, New York, NY 10018.
Tel: US Toll-free 1 888 839 3535.
Email: info@projects-abroad.org
Website: www.projects-abroad.org
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Globe Aware in Asia
Thailand—Sustaining Thailand's Treasures
A rare opportunity to live and breathe the beauty of Thailand beyond the mass media stereotype. Take a volunteer vacation and see and participate in how Thais really live and help to preserve Thailand’s native elephant habitat. You will find yourself in one the most unique environments, working to build an ecologically sustainable reforested habitat to give elephants a home. With a volunteer vacation, you cab be a part of the solution and help change the fate of elephants in Thailand by creating ways for the people of Surin Province to promote sustainable elephant eco-tourism, preserve their natural habitat and provide an alternative to the current use of elephants as revenue in circuses and street begging operations.
Email: info@globeaware.org
Website: www.globeaware.org
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Teach English, Computers in Thailand, Nepal, Cambodia
Knowledge is key to poverty reduction. Teach English, computers, other activities, in charming town and village schools. Stay at our volunteer centers or live with a host family.
Start with a fun and professional 3-day Cross Cultural and Volunteer Training, free for all OpenmindProjects volunteers.
Dates: All year round
Cost: 495 Euros for 2-3 weeks, 595 Euros for 4 weeks, extra weeks 65 Euros
Contact: OpenmindProjects, 856/9 Moo 15, Tanon Prajark, Amphur .Muang, NongKhai, 43000, Thailand
Tel.: +66 87233 5734. Fax: + 66 (0) 42 41 35 78
Email: info@openmindprojects.org
Website: www.openmindprojects.org
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Thailand Wildlife - Ethical Volunteering with a UK Charity
The elephant project gives a safe sanctuary to Thailand's domesticated elephants. These animals would otherwise be roaming the streets of big cities, be kept in bad conditions at working elephant camps or be otherwise exploited in the tourist industry.
Volunteer duties: Early morning walk to collect the elephants from their night location in the forest. Bathing and swimming with the elephants in the lake or river. Walking the elephants into the forest to forage. Collecting fruits for their big appetites. Cleaning their enclosure at the centre. Washing the elephants with hose pipes. Learning all about these gentle giants..
Dates: Year round
Cost: From US$630
Contact: Globalteer, 54 Woodchester, Bristol, BS37 8TX, U.K
Email: info@globalteer.org
Website: www.globalteer.org
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Thailand Wildlife — Ethical Volunteering with a UK Charity
The Thailand Wild Animal Rescue Centre is dedicated to the rescue and re-habilitation of Thailand's wildlife. Many of Thailand's animals are illegally traded, abused in the tourist industry or maltreated. The rescue centre was established to provide these animals with a safe home as close to their natural environment as possible.
Volunteer duties: Preparing food and feeding the bears, primates and other various wildlife. Create enrichments for the animals to provide stimulation, thought and fun. Cleaning the cages and enclosures. Providing the animals with water. Walking in the forest to collect the best leaves for the primates. Maintaining the centre.
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Dates: Year round
Cost: From US$860
Contact: Globalteer, 54 Woodchester, Bristol, BS37 8TX, U.K
Email: info@globalteer.org
Website: www.globalteer.org
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Volunteer in Thailand
Conservation Corps Thailand
You can speak English to a group in Thailand 15 hours per week as a Conversation Partner. Live with a Thai family and teach them English 15 hours each week as part of our Conversation Corps program. We also offer community work at an orphanage. Volunteers will spend a majority of their time preparing lessons and teaching English speaking and listening skills to primary school aged children using informal approaches, such as activities, games, and English camps.
Dates: Year ‘round
Cost: Please see website for prices.
Contact: GeoVisions, 63 Whitfield St. Guilford, Ct 06437 Tel: 203-453-5838; toll free 1-877-949-9998
Email: programs@geovisions.org
Website: www.geovisions.org
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Volunteer Abroad in Thailand from US$320
Affordable volunteer opportunities available in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Volunteers can participate in Teaching English, Outdoor Work and Community Development (groups only).
IVHQ sends over 5000 volunteer travelers worldwide annually — one of the
world's most popular volunteer placement organizations!
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Dates: Programs start on the
1st and 3rd Monday of each month. Duration: Volunteers can volunteer anywhere from one week to three months.
Cost: Program Fees start from US$320.
Contact: International Volunteer HQ, Unit 17, 4 Buller Street, New Plymouth, 4342, New Zealand.
Tel.: +64 6 758 7949.
Email: volunteer@volunteerhq.org
Website: www.volunteerhq.org
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Worldteach
Volunteer in Thailand
WorldTeach volunteers teach English to elementary and high school students in Thailand for one year and live with a host family or in teacher housing.
Contact: WorldTeach, Center for International Development, Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Box 122, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA; (617) 495-5527.
Email: info@worldteach.org
Website: www.worldteach.org
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Baan Dada
Volunteer in the Baan Dada Children's Home
Baan Dada Children’s Home is a shelter for displaced migrant minority Karen, Burmese, and Thai
children who are either orphaned or left to us by single mothers due to the political instability in Burma (Myanmar).
There are 60 children currently at the Home. We are looking for volunteers to give daily English lessons, help with
construction, agricultural development, fundraising, maintaining the sponsorship program, and assisting with
administrative duties.
Piloki Village Homestay Program
Piloki Village Homestay is an innovative community project. With the assistance of volunteers
Piloki Village has set up a homestay program where tourists “with a conscious” can live with a family and interact
with the community. We are looking for volunteers to help maintain and improve the program, promote it, help the
leader use the Internet, and also teach English to the locals and the school.
Contact: baandadavolunteer@gmail.com, www.baandada.org
Dragonfly
Volunteer English teaching program in Thailand for 150 fluent speakers. Four to 52 weeks following either 3-day intensive or a 120-hour TEFL training course. Other volunteer projects in conservation, building, etc.
Visit: www.thai-dragonfly.com.
Global Service Corps (GSC)
Volunteer Programs with Local Homestays in Thailand
Volunteers and Interns live with families in Thai homes providing a unique cultural experience while volunteering on service and development projects! We help developing communities learn to function more sustainably in areas of international health, English (EFL) instruction, orphan care and Buddhist immersion. Participants work on meaningful projects in schools, orphanages, hospitals, health clinics, monasteries, and community and NGOs, depending on their interests.
Contact: Global Service Corps, The Women's Building, 3543 18th Street, #14, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA; tel. (415) 551-0000; gsc@globalservicecorps.org, www.globalservicecorps.org.
Global Volunteer Network
Volunteer in Thailand
Assist in a wildlife rescue centre in the Petchaburi province of Thailand, feeding, maintaining and caring for mistreated and domesticated animals.
Contact: info@volunteer.org.nz, www.globalvolunteernetwork.org
Karen Hilltribes Trust
Teaching English as a Volunteer in Thailand
Live with a Karen family in a rural village in north west Thailand, while teaching English in a local primary or secondary school. This unique opportunity to experience life with the Karen people is open to volunteers of all ages for periods of 2 - 12 months. Contact us via our website for more information.
Contact: volunteer@karenhilltribes.org.uk, www.karenhilltribes.org.uk
The Mirror Art Foundation
Volunteer Teacher Program in Chiang Rai, Thailand
The Foundation enlists the help of the volunteer teachers to accomplish a variety of projects for and with the Mae Yao community as well as other volunteer community service projects in local hilltribe villages.
Contact: mirrorartgroup@yahoo.com, www.mirrorartgroup.org
SEA Volunteers Program
Volunteer Programs in Thailand, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
Offers a variety of volunteer programs, including: teaching English; Child Care; and Community Development. Paid teaching programs, internships, and study tours are also available. See their website for details.
Contact: info@see-thailand.com, www.see-thailand.com
Starfish Ventures Ltd
Volunteer Placements in Thailand
Starfish Ventures is a UK company dedicated to providing long term commitment to projects in Thailand that goes beyond simply placing volunteers. English teaching, turtle conservation, school development and helping hilltribe people are all within our growing list of Ventures.
Teaching English in Thailand
If you like children and want to help children in Thailand prepare for a better future join our Teaching Venture program. Jobs are available throughout the year and you be living in a Thai community away from the tourists. Experience life in Thailand first-hand and volunteer to help the local people.
Visit: www.starfishvolunteers.com
The Association for AKHA Education and Culture in Thailand
The Association for AKHA Education and Culture in Thailand — is the oldest tribal organization in Asia and has been protecting hill tribe culture for 28 years. We offer unique biodiversity eco and cultural tours with biologists and shaman elders in the Golden Triangle Rain Forests and long term volunteer placements through our NGO which are some of the best in Thailand. We work in association with UNESCO and UNDP.
We can arrange extremely diverse volunteer packages around the 12 humanitarian programs we manage. Immerse your life in this award winning organization.
Contact: info@akhaasia.org, www.akhaasia.org
Travel to Teach
Teaching English in Thailand
We offer the most inexpensive, flexible and interesting alternatives for a volunteer vacation. Currently we have programs available in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Mexico. You can volunteer for two weeks or two years, it's up to you!
Contact: darcy@travel-to-teach.org, www.travel-to-teach.org
Viengping Children's Home
Viengping Children's Home is an orphanage just outside Chiang Mai in Thailand. They care for more than 600 children who have been abandoned or abused, or whose families cannot support them.
Visit: www.baanviengping.com .
Volunteers in Asia
VIA offers a variety of programs and services which facilitate dialogue and understanding between people–a powerful tool for building peace. A Stanford program, VIA promotes full-circle exchange by providing volunteer and service-learning opportunities in Asia, and educational programs for Asian students in the United States. Programs in China, Indonesia, Japan. Laos, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
Visit: www.viaprograms.org
Where There is No Doctor
Volunteer with a non-profit social organization working in the northern part of Thailand among the poor, underprivileged and marginalised hilltribes.
Contact: hilltribes@wherethereisnotadoctor.org, www.riceflow.com/where/volunteer.htm
Wild Animal Rescue Foundation of Thailand
Volunteers, ideally with an appropriate background, work with animals such as rehabilitating gibbons.
Contact: volunteer@warthai.org, www.warthai.org.
Worldwide Language Study LLC
Volunteer in Thailand Teaching Orphans
Our Volunteer Program in Thailand helps poor children who are orphans. The project's aim is to provide under-privileged children with an opportunity to gain the lifelong gift of education. The basis of the program is the belief that education can break the cycle of poverty and allow the children to take control of their own lives.
Visit: www.gapyearinasia.com/thailand.html
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