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Volunteer work in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal


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Genuine and low cost volunteer abroad opportunities for volunteers from Canada with Openmind Projects.

 


Volunteer in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal


Why volunteer  abroad in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Nepal

Underpriviliged people abroad  lack the resources they need to be able to improve their lives, and Canadian volunteers abroad can gain invaluable international, cultural and volunteer work abroad experience when they volunteer abroad to help!  Learn more here.
 
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Volunteer abroad opportunities for Canadians:

Students on gap years/months or on holiday, Career break/sabbatical volunteers abroad, Retired or senior Canadian volunteers abroad

Why volunteer with Openmind Projects abroad?
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 its start to help poor children in Thailand. Our first website was designed by a son of a poor Thai rice farmer family, www.itinisan.org 

Horizon International, Yale Universitywww.solutions-site.org/node/332,  writes about Openmind Projects, the Finalist in the Stockholm Challenge ICT for development

Canadian volunteers abroad can:

Teach English in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal 

Teach ICT, computer and internet skills abroad in Cambodia and Thailand

Work for environmental conservation, sustainable eco tourism and community development abroad in Laos, Thailand and Nepal

Assist with child and health care work in Thailand, Nepal and Cambodia 

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Spend your volunteer money wisely

Openmind Projects offers affordable and value for the money volunteering work abroad.  Why pay CA$60-90 per day—the rates many travel and volunteer organizations charge—when you can spend only CA$22 per day with Openmind Projects in Thailand for a two month period? 

Our Volunteer with Support option is a real bargain!

Our fee of CA$22 is about 680 Thai baht.  On your own a room in a guesthouse in Thailand would cost you 400-700 baht per day and wouldn't include a volunteer placement/project, meals, volunteer support, handbooks or training!  

With us your
entire fee goes towards supporting our grassroots projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal as well as our international volunteers, not to any administration, office, promotion or other costs overseas.

Save money with our Early Bird Special if you book early!

 

Our popular volunteer abroad training

Gain critical cross cultural and volunteer work abroad skills with Openmind Projects!  A responsible volunteer abroad prepares carefully for his or her volunteer work.  Before you travel our Online Volunteer Overseas Handbooks will give you important country, culture, volunteer and travel abroad advice.  See what other volunteers have said in their Volunteer Overseas Testimonials.

We help you open your mind and adapt while volunteering overseas in a new and different culture.  Our free 3-day Volunteer Training program in Nong Khai, Thailand, eases your integration into the local cultures you'll find in our projects.  Together with our overseas volunteers we provide free training and educational and computer support to schools, villages, orphan homes, national parks and other projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal.  Volunteers who attend our training can hit the ground running and work more effectively and efficiently in their placement.  In the training we rely on our learning by doing philosophy.  Read more about our Volunteer Overseas Learning Philosophy!
 

Volunteer abroad: a great way to discover yourself and learn for life!

Volunteering overseas with local people in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos or Nepal with Openmind Projects provides a rewarding and very useful experience, a fast track to personal development through cross cultural interaction.  Discover another culture and yourself, test your limits, challenge yourself, connect with people abroad and build lifelong friendships!

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Canadians Volunteer Abroad!  Volunteer work in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal

 

 

Canadian volunteers go abroad with Openmind Projects 

Our volunteer abroad opportunities are open to all nationalities.  Energetic volunteers are always welcome!  We often arrange  last minute volunteer abroad placements for busy travelers and those who have limited time.  Our volunteers want to contribute to the communities they visit abroad.  They are students on vacations or a gap year who seek international experience.  They are professionals on career breaks.  They are retired and seeking new and meaningful challenges.  They come as a group or family, sometimes as groups from schools, colleges and universities.  Volunteer abroad in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia or Nepal! 

When you volunteer abroad with Openmind Projects you can work in sustainable eco tourism, community development, child or health care volunteer projects such as teaching English in Thailand or teaching computer skills in Cambodia, Laos and Nepal.

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Innovative volunteer abroad learning ideas

Discover new ideas when you volunteer abroad.  You learn to take initiatives, understand and adapt to another culture, and work independently!

 

Volunteer abroad: how long?

Our volunteers abroad are welcome for flexible periods from two weeks to twelve months or even longer and any time of the year!


What you can do as a volunteer from Canada abroad with Openmind Projects

Our Canadian volunteers help us provide free English teaching and computer training in schools, villages, national parks and more. 

As a Canadian volunteer abroad you can teach English in a Buddhist temple.

Or help children in a rural Thai or Cambodian village school.

Perhaps you’d like to volunteer and teach English in Thailand on an island in the Andaman Sea.

Volunteer abroad to support sustainable community and  eco tourism development.

Show children and teenagers how to use IT, computers and the internet to learn other subjects.

Help people improve local health and child care.


Environmental volunteering abroad: trekking or diving

Learn for nature and future!  We reach out to sustainable community development and  eco tourism projects working for environmental conservation to protect wildlife in threatened national parks.  We send Canadian volunteers to assist in  local conservation initiatives and to  scuba-diving work in Thailand or Cambodia to help investigate the coral reefs: amazing marine environmental and conservation volunteer work in the stunning Andaman Sea.

 

Where you can volunteer work abroad with Openmind Projects

You can volunteer work abroad projects in over 60 projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal.  Our teaching, conservation, community development, child and health care work and medical volunteer abroad projects offer amazing aid and volunteer abroad opportunities
 

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Canadians volunteer abroad in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal

Students on a gap year, holidays or a spring break, professionals on a career break or vacation, retired, senior volunteers and family volunteers can teach, help at health and child care projects or join an eco project.

Teach English in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal
Teach Computer, IT and Internet skills
Volunteer at Health and Child Care Projects
Environmental Volunteer Work in Sustainable Eco Tourism, Communit Develpoment and Conservation Projects
Marine Conservation in Thailand
Internship or Volunteer Abroad at our Training Center in Thailand

Amazing volunteer abroad opportunities for Canadian volunteers with Openmind Projects

Gap year abroad volunteers!  Career break and volunteer working holidays!  Retired volunteers go abroad and so do families!

Read about some field projects we support and that you are welcome to in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal!


Volunteer, teach at Openmind Projects Training Center in Thailand

Teach at Openmind Projects Training Center in Thailand

Situated in Nong Khai in northeastern Thailand—Isan—, our Training Center is the heart of Openmind Projects.  Here we train both our trainees and our new volunteers who come from Canada and other countries abroad.  And they in turn teach each other about their respective cultures and languages!

Read about our popular Volunteer and Cross Culture Training for new volunteers at our Training Center.

Volunteer in Laos . Community based eco tourism in the Water Buffalo Mountains

Volunteer in Lao community based eco tourism in the Water Buffalo Mountains

Amazing opportunity for the volunteer interested in nature, trekking and photography to work in an eco project in Laos.  Teach English to children.  Teach while working alongside local village guides.  One of several eco volunteer opportunities.

Volunteer on a Thai island

Volunteer on a Thai island

Teach English on a small island.  For volunteers who want to experience authentic island and fishing village life, this charming island is just a short boat ride from Krabi, a popular international tourist destination, but is a world away and remains unknown to most tourists!

 

Volunteer for Burma, hill tribe and refugee children

Volunteer with Burmese, hill tribe and refugee children

Teach at a school for Burmese children.  The majority of the students are from ethnic minority hill tribes including refugees from Burma.  This volunteer placement is located in beautiful mountains close to Burma, near an amazing waterfall, the highest in Thailand!
 


Teach English in a village by the Mekong River in Thailand

Teach English in a village by the Mekong River in Thailand

In this small village, located on the bank of the Mekong River, our volunteers work in the local kindergarten and school. Since it serves the poorest families in the area this is a place where our volunteers can make a big difference!


Teach English at a Buddhist Temple

Teach English at a Buddhist Temple

This well known temple school trains young novices in basic subjects as well as Buddhist teachings.  This is one of our placements for volunteers who are interested in learning about Buddhism and temple life while teaching English to novices!
 

Marine wildlife protection, scuba diving, teaching English on Phuket Island

Marine wildlife protection, scuba diving, and teaching English on Phuket Island

Openmind Projects volunteers assist with surveys of coral reefs in the Andaman Sea.  Qualified volunteers may dive and document their findings, others may teach English.  One of our many eco volunteer options, this placement is highly recommended for those who are avid divers and  passionate about marine wildlife!

 

Volunteer at a health care center.

Volunteer at an orphanage and school in Cambodia

This orphan home cares for over a hundred children, from infants to teenagers.  A great opportunity for the volunteer who wants to support disadvantaged children and help them become reintegrated into society!
 

Volunteer at a home for war orphans in Nepal

Volunteer at an Orphanage and school in Cambodia

Assist the staff providing for the children and teach at the nearby Creation School.  This small orphanage in Kathmandu, Nepal, houses about ten orphan children at any given time.  One of the child and health care projects we support.
 

Volunteer at a Home for War Orphans in Nepal

Volunteer at a health care center

This small community hospital in northeast Thailand is treating villagers with minor health problems.  Depending on your experience you can assist the staff directly during their work or help them improve their English.  One of several Health Care options in southeast Asia here is a placement for the volunteer interested in rural health care overseas!

 

Community development in Nepal. Eco tourism and teaching in Chitwan .

Sustainable community and eco tourism development in Nepal near famous Chitwan National Park

This sustainable community and eco tourism development project in Nepal supports local eco tourism efforts as well as the village school.  A unique chance for adventurous and independent volunteers with an interest in wildlife, village life, teaching and trekking!
 

Why volunteers from Canada volunteer with Openmind Projects abroad


Very useful and activity based Cross Culture and Volunteer Training
Gain critical cross culture and volunteer work abroad skills with Openmind Projects abroad!  As a responsible volunteer abroad you want to prepare yourself for volunteering as well as you can.  Before you travel we send you our Online Volunteer Overseas Handbooks.  They'll give you important country, culture, volunteer and travel abroad advice before you come to our free three day volunteer training in Thailand before you start volunteering.  Read what other volunteers say: Volunteer Overseas Testimonials.  

Together with other volunteers from Canada and abroad, we provide free training and educational and computer support to schools, villages, orphan homes, national parks and other projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal.  We rely on learning by doing.  Read more about our Volunteer Overseas Learning Philosophy.

Cross culture, social and interpersonal skills
Through volunteering abroad you increase your social skills, employability and university admission chances!  You gain a new cross cultural perspective that provides valuable insights in this age of globalization.  Learn to adapt to work and life in a different culture while making new friends abroad.  You open your mind when you volunteering in a new culture! 

Make best use of your volunteer money
Why pay CA$60-90 per day—the rates many major travel and volunteer abroad organizations charge—when you can spend only CA$22 per day with Openmind Projects abroad in Thailand for a two month period?  On your own a room in a guesthouse in Thailand would cost you 400-700 baht per day and wouldn't include a volunteer placement/project, meals, volunteer support, handbooks or training, all of which are covered with us!

With Openmindprojects your entire volunteer fee goes towards supporting our grassroots projects abroad in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal as well as our volunteers, not to administration, office, promotion or other costs abroad in North America, Europe or Australia.  We focus on maximizing our impact on supporting the local people in our projects.

Plan early and save money with our Early Bird Special!

 

INNOVATIVE VOLUNTEER ABROAD LEARNING IDEAS


Learn to take initiatives, understand and work in other cultures abroad and work independently!

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Career Break volunteer abroad
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Teach English in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal in a new fun style: learning by doing!
IT, Computer Training volunteer abroad in Thailand and Cambodia, teaching IT the way children learn to use computers
Sustainable Eco Tourism, Community Development and Conservation volunteering abroad opportunities in Thailand, Laos, Nepal
 

Canadians volunteer abroad in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal