Volunteering in Asia forum

Maybe I should mention a few things .. I'll be traveling alone, and am a 20 year old woman (taking some time off of school) .

There's a few organizations that accept volunteer teachers for short term placements. Check these out:

NE Thailand: http://www.isan-survivor.org/volunteer.html

or

Andaman Coast: http://www.volunteerteacherthailand.org/need.htm

There's a lot of "Gap Year" type volunteer programs where you can work in a national park, at the gibbon centre in Phuket, at an orphanage, etc. but they typically have significant placement fees ($400 USD and up).

This NGO usually deals with longterm placements from Canada and the UK, but you might check with them anyway. If nothing else, they can probably point you in the right direction.

http://www.cuso.org/

It would depend on the circumstances - i.e. what kind of housing would be available in the area, etc. What area are you & your wife located in, and what kind of charities is she affiliated with ?

If your interested in offering some time and a little towards your accomodation and meals I am currently building a farmstay/school camp in Sai Khao 60km south of Krabi.

We want to build the camp for underpriviledged Thai children. Currently we are offering free accomodation and meals in exchange for a donation towards the camp.

The donation might be a cow or ten chickens. You could even donate towards building resources and help us make something at the farm.
For example a donation of 15 bags of cement is 2,750baht which gets you 7 days accomodation and meals and you get to help us use the cement to build a new external shower house which the children can use when they stay with us. There's lots of things that can be donated which we trade for accomodation, meals and local tours around the area.

Theres lots to do here and it's pretty much free. We take people to national parks, beaches, fishing all for the price of the gasoline. We teach our volunteers how to live a sustainable life here in thailand with the help of our Thai locals.

If you are interested let me know or call 0878870769.

Cheers
Jerry

Hi Jerry,
I'd love to get some more information about this - you can contact me at violaine1@hotmail.com . Thank you so much for the information, looking forward to hearing more about it !

Violaine.

Hi Violaine:
You might also check out the author of the book "The Angel of Bang Kwang Prison", Susan Aldous. She lives in Bangkok and is involved in many charitable endeavors. You can learn more about her on her Facebook page.
I have not met her in person, but have emailed her several times and she seems very genuine. Makes life a whole lot better to help someone without expecting anything in return, but you usually get a lot back which you can't put a price on.
Lee

@jerry

that sounds fantastic. do you have a website?

@ jerry...Sounds good.

I have a strong connection with Krabi (having lived in the region for 5 years previously) and would be glad to give some assistance.

I will mostly be on Koh Phra Thong for the next 6 months but will be coming down to Krabi on 20th or so October. If you need free website help then I would be happy to meet you and give some advice...for what its worth.

I'm no expert but have been doing it for about a year or so for my own projects in Thailand. Please see www.kohphrathong.com or www.blue-guru.org to check out my work.

Cheers