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Community Work With Orphans Community Work at a Charity
in ho Chi minh City, Vietnam Cooking house in ho Chi minh City
A heart-warming opportunity to give some much-needed care to Cook up a storm and receive a warm welcome into Vietnamese culture,
Vietnamese orphans. Serving as an orphanage as well as a pagoda, as you provide food to poor hospital patients who cannot afford their
the Dieu Giac Centre was started by a group of Buddhist nuns, and own. You’ll work alongside volunteers who come in from the Mekong
now takes care of about 100 orphans. Their need for individual adult Delta to volunteer their time at this shop in the heart of Ho Chi Minh
attention is not often met as they greatly outnumber their available City. As long as you don’t expect nice worktops and cookers, you’ll
carers. You can help by playing with the children, teaching them new enjoy this project! It’s hard work, but previous volunteers have said
skills and assisting them with their daily lives. The older children learn that the best bits are the kindness, joy and warmth of the Vietnamese
English and are very keen for the chance to use their new-found skills volunteers, as well as the chance to sample the fantastic local
and to have some private tuition. vegetarian food.

The Experience The Experience
“Vietnam is amazing. I love the people, the places, the shops, “The room we work in resembles a single garage and is absolutely
everything. The markets have an unbelievable variety of food ... and crammed with Vietnamese people! The packing is done on the floor and
there is a stunning jazz club with two hours of live jazz every night. It is after we’ve bagged up our rice we go with several others to deliver and
just mad!” Olivia Case serve it in the locality. We’d definitely recommend this project.”
Sally Hibbert and family
Fact file Fact file
Location type: Bustling city Accommodation: Location type: City Included in this project:
Shared room in a guesthouse • TEFL certification
Activities: Teaching English Activities: Preparation and
• Airport pick-up
and life skills, playing, general Meals: Self-catering delivery of food to patients at
• Orientation
child care and assistance with nearby hospital
Included in this project: • 24/7 support from i-to-i staff
domestic duties
• TEFL certification Resources: Facilities are • Accommodation
Resources: Very few. Any • Airport pick-up quite basic, but the necessary
teaching materials you could • Orientation resources will be provided
bring, including story books, • 24/7 support from i-to-i staff
Accommodation:
magazines, cassettes, coloured • Accommodation
Shared with other volunteers in a
paper and stickers, would be very
local family guesthouse
welcome
Meals: Self-catering
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