Hello!!
We are trying to find a volunteer project in Northern Vietnam and we've done endless searches online, but every link leads to an organization that charges exhorbant (sp?) amounts of money!! We're absolutelly willing and expecting to pay our own food and accomadation, and think it's CRAZY to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to VOLUNTEER!! We've got lots of time and lots of energy, but funds are short, so it's just not an option. Does anyone have any suggestions for organisations or agencies that just want good old fashioned man power?? (we're wanting to do a building project in particular, but are open to all ideas!).
Thanks!
Reply to this What you could do is ask the expats living in the area what help is needed where they are.
Here is an expats forum.
Expats
Mel
Reply to this Hi mates,
So moved to learn of your will. When I was in University I used to take part in a project called CBT (Community based Tourism) operated in North West Vietnam (Villages near Sapa) held by 2 Canadian colleges (Caplinano??? and North Island college) and my Faculty of Tourism. The purpose of the project was to train the local to work in tourism. I'm done with University now by my former teacher could be some kind of help. Please contact her at
Her name is Ms. Nguyet Que. I hope she'll provide you necessary information. Should I be some further kind of help, please let me know. Cheers.
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Reply to this hi nightflower, thanks for the info! but umm ... i'm not sure what
means or how to reach ms nguyet que... lol, any pointers? 😉
and mell, i checked out the expat forum, didn't really find any links or leads that might help us, but thanks for the suggestion! Reply to this Hi mates,
I'm terribly sorry. I think the moderators have deleted the email address that I posted. Damn. Make it this way, hopefully they'll skip. Her email ends with
and the previous part is quetourism Reply to this Please say my aquaintance, Mr. Trieu Son, referred you to us.
Reply to this What means.
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to show where we have snipped(deleted) something.
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Mel
Reply to this how about checking out stay another day? it's an organization that helps bring you closer to local projects and helps to get you involved. I'm just not sure if they're yet set up in Vietnam www.stayanotherday.org
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