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Gap Years & Volunteering in Thailand

Gap Years & Volunteering in Thailand

Land of Smiles ... and bustling Bangkok......and beuatiful beaches. But there is another Thailand - a simpler, gentler land, full of warm people in tune with the rhythms of rural life.

Here the hill tribes (peoples whose origins may lie in China, Burma or Laos) and the rural Thais rub happily along together. Their children share the same school but, since not all hill tribe children attract government funding, the schools need help - both in infrastructure and with spoken English.

Thailand's English syllabus is entirely written and only a few can actually speak the language. This is where you come in...straight to the heart of this wonderful country full of astonishing beauty - natural, human and architectural.

Gap Year Teaching in Thailand

Teaching among the Hill Tribes on the Burma Border

AV works with the Maekok River Village Project in the Fang Valley. You volunteer at primary or middle schools among children who come from that Thai village and from nearby hill tribe villages. Your volunteer placement will involve you teaching spoken English to the children, and perhaps to teachers and villagers. You (and your partner) live in a house in or near the school. After teaching for two months, you travel to Koh Tao for your safari - a PADI Open Water Basic diving course - and beyond. Then independent travel for three more weeks.
Volunteer Teaching in Thailand

5-Week Short Venture

Volunteer Community Work in Northern Thailand

You work with the Maekok River Village project, helping to improve infrastructure in mixed Thai and hill tribe schools on the Burma border. Many of the hill tribe children are not funded, so all available money is absorbed in just running the school and there is little available for infrastructure. Typical projects for your volunteer placement include providing water, lavatories and extended school canteens. After three weeks of project work a river trip, elephant ride and visit to Chiang Rai is followed by a diving course in the clear and spectacular waters around Koh Tao, in the Gulf of Siam.

Short Venture Community Volunteering in Thailand