Coming up soon with new posted projects...
Below are serveral placements avialable for your choice:
Khmer-V volunteers play a key role at community programme and orphanages across the country by providing life skills and a positive direction for children in orphanages, families in community, and organizational schools.
If you are from a native English country, you are also need to have some techniques to teach children, such as TEFL training. Children do not always listen to the teachers and kind be naughty at times, but they very cute and eager to learn! They will try to see how far they can push you on your first day in the class room, but show some persistence and wear a big smile and you will be fine. Khmer-V provides a one-day training course for teaching techniques if required by volunteers.
Even if you are not a native English-speaker, if you have good English skills you can still be a great help at the project.
Volunteers' roles and responsibilities at the project will be:
- Arranging lesson plans with the provided curriculum
- Teaching English
- Teaching drawing and painting
- Teaching basic health skills
- Taking care of children during class
- Ensuring the attendence list is kept up to date.
- Playing games to remind the children what has been covered during the class
- Help clean the class room for tomorrow's lesson!
If you are a volunteer from the UK, Australia, USA, Ireland, New Zealand or Canada, then we can you provide with a fully-supported volunteer placement including TEFL training through our partners abroad.
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Dental nursing volunteering is also a part of our program. This is provided through the Regional Training Centre in many provinces across the country to general nurses who are already working in the government sector or students from other countries. The Dental Nurses are trained to carry out basic dental treatment and community oral health care in Cambodian communities. Dental nurses are used as a preventive measure who extend dental services to underprivileged people in Cambodian communities in order to improve oral health and contribute to community well being.
Volunteers' roles and responsibilities at the project:
- Volunteers can initiate new ideas about the project and suggest to the project coordinator directly during their time at the project.
- Volunteers must be open minded and flexible because everything at the project could be changed without prior notification. This is because of the nature of the projects that we work with.
We coordinate work at projects to combat trafficking in women and children for sex slavery; to care for and rehabilitate those rescued from sex slavery; to provide occupational skills and to reintegrate those rescued into the community in a sustainable and innovative manner.
We also coordinate to combat the causes and effects of trafficking and sex slavery through:
- outreach work in AIDS prevention
- through advocacy and campaigning
- through representation and participation in women’s issues at national, regional and international forums.
Khmer-V initiated and selected a partnership with a local NGO which is named The Urban Poor Women Development (UPWD). The UPWD is a local organization and has been operating since 1997. It has organized 15 communities to protect their human rights based approach and particularly poor urban women's rights. It focuses on strengthening the people's organizations to enhance their leadership ability and nurture a strong youth and women cadre to take collective action at various levels to alter their situation. UPWD will also organize communities to work on infrastructure, income generation activities, improve strategies for disaster preparation, responses and rehabilitation, basic health service HIV/AIDS and poor children's access to education.
Volunteers' roles and responsibilities at the project:
- Provide strategies to mobilize people in the community
- Help to analyse issues and provide feedback
- Help to write quarterly reports
- Assist to prepare community action plan
- Assist in monitoring and evaluation of the project
- Other clerical works as required by the project
Cambodia faces a new trend of housing and land issues fuelled by rising land prices, speculation buying and non-existent land registry documents (most were destroyed during the Pol Pot era).
In the months from May until August 2006 it is estimated that over 2,000 families alone were evicted from various Bassac river sites, the Monivong hospital and other smaller sites around the city. The company claiming the land was Sour Srun (with links to Canadia Bank one of the city's leading Banking institutions). The Municipality of Phnom Penh not only failed to request evidence of land titles but actually provided security forces to facilitate the eviction of families who were relocated 30 kms outside the city to a rice field with a skeleton infrastructure and almost no access to work, schooling or services.
To solve this issue, Khmer-V works with many NGOs as its partners and network in Cambodia such as STT, HRFT, USG, NGO Forum, and we also send them any qualified volunteers we are able to locate to help them. Cambodia has made political and economic progress since the UN administration period of the early 1990s, and many of the essential ingredients for the realisation of the right to adequate housing remain absent. As a volunteer, you will be helping to address the following issues:
- evictions and forcible confiscation of land continue to rank as one of Cambodia's most pervasive human rights problems
- security of tenure is weak or absent for urban poor communities
- despite developments in the legislative framework, wide-scale flouting of land laws prevails
- spiralling land speculation has resulted in ever-increasing demand for land in prime urban areas, particularly in Phnom Penh
- land grabbing by a powerful and wealthy elite - to the severe detriment of local communities - has reached epidemic proportions
- And other clerical work required by the project
Interested in getting involved in community development projects in Cambodia?
When volunteering at a community development project you could be working with adults in residential homes, artisan’s cooperatives and AIDS outreach projects. Your time and effort is all that need to help bring a little hope to the lives of people that the global economy has forgotten. We provide them basic jobs to improve their livelihood and generate some much-needed income. The work is designed to provide them with skills and training to help them set up their own small business and also to imrpove the health of their families through sanitation lessons. With a small amount of micro-credit, we are able to help grow these small businesses to empower local people to be in control of their own destiny.
Volunteers' roles and responsibilities at the project:
- With the project coordinator you will help to mobilize people in the community for development process
- Raise community awareness and understanding
- Prepare community action plan for development
- Submit the proposal planning to any NGOs within the country (if required by the project) or
seek for other supporters from volunteer's country.
- Monitoring and evaluation
- And other clerical work required by the project
