Volunteering (2 Days) in Tsunami-hit Andaman Villages
(from Phuket or Khao Lak hotels)
CODE: TVL002 |
Note: this is an example, and can be tailormade to your interests, longer or shorter, or change of activities |
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Phuket or Khao Lak – Ban Talay Nok - Khao Lak or Phuket |
This example shows one possible volunteer opportunity. But we individually customize services, as each guest has something to offer, and no specific skill set is required. We will match you with one part of a Community Development Project. Activities include Teaching English; Helping out at School; Mangrove Reforestation; Sharing your skills or hobby with villagers; Habitat Rehabilitation; Beach Clearance & Waste Management, teaching community aerobics, yoga, or other skills
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English teaching local school; Are you ready to fall in love with 50 kids? Clean beaches |
Enjoy an intense but rewarding day in a coastal fishing village with breathtaking views over the Andaman Sea. Ban Talae Nok is a delightful village with a way of life unchanged until electricity came to the village in 1990. Eventually they saw the first Westerner too. After the tsunami, the village embraced sustainable tourism and handicraft production as forms of alterative income, and has come to value the importance of preserving their natural environment through waste management and mangrove reforestation projects. |
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| Day 1: Phuket or Khao Lak – Ban Talay Nok – English Teaching in Rural Coastal Fishing Village – Overnight Local Village |
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Transfer from Phuket (3.5 hours) or Khao Lak (2.0 hours) to the village. You will meet your host family at whose house you will stay the evening, then visit the pre-Tsunami site of the village and learn the story from your guide. You’ll feast on a traditional lunch with your host family that could include yellow curry with fish, vegetable soup, chicken curry with coconut milk, sticky rice w coconut milk, and Thai custard. After a brief introduction, your guide – along with local villagers – will introduce you to the school or community centre where you will prepare English learning activities. You will spend the next two hours teaching English through fun and games with the children. Not only will you be able to help village kids at school learn practical English, but also your host family and members of the village handicraft cooperative. The ability to communicate in English is a vital skill for Thais, especially those wanting to engage in successful tourism, guiding, or running a general business. Dinner with your host family, and overnight in their house.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Accom: Homestay with local family
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Mangrove forestry; meeting local kids teaching; village accommodation is safe & clean, but simple |
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| Day 2 Local Village – Choices of Activity – Return to Khao Lak or Phuket |
After a local breakfast with your host family, spend the morning in one of the following activities with villagers:
- Palm Weaving
- Mangrove Planting
- Learn about the village Wildlife Center
- English practice with tsunami soap cooperative ladies
After another local lunch you will say your farewell to the villagers and return to Phuket or Khao Lak area.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accom: None
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Note :donations are gratefully accepted, but please note a donation of 20% of the trip cost is already built into your tour costs. But if you wish to donate more, you can. Any donation will be gratefully received and will be used in community development projects in the village. Be sure to provide your guide with contact details so that we can issue an official letter of thanks, and contact info allowing you to follow up.
Tariff
Tariff: in Thai Baht per person based in homestay situation and subject to North by North East ‘General Conditions and Booking Procedures’. This quote based on Dec 2008 market rates. While we make every effort to honour above pricing, North by North-East Travel Services reserves the right to adjust prices if quickly-rising fuel costs force service-providers to collectively raise rates.
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Volunteering (2 Days) in Tsunami-hit Andaman Villages
CODE: TVL002
Tariff: Based on Thai BAHT per person
on twin sharing room
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Validity: Price is effective from December 16, 2008 to September 30, 2009.
Price includes:
- Private Transfers to / from your hotel,
- boat and local transport as per program,
- meals as listed,
- English-speaking guide service,
- Insurance
Price does not include:
- Meals not listed in the itinerary
- Tips
- Donations other than that mentioned above
- Items not listed in the itinerary or of a personal nature
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