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Location: Bali, Indonesia
Duration: Minimum 1 month commitment.
Cost: £895 for 1 month placement. This includes all accommodation costs, travel expenses, three meals per day on each day worked (5 days), and a personally tailored itinerary.
For those with particular skills (such as photographers/researchers/projects managers) looking to do a particular project the price is negotiable. Contact us to find out more.
Travel: You will be met at Denpassar International Airport upon arrival by a Project representative and taken directly to your host family. You will be given full in-country orientation including cultural immersion and a basic language course.
Work: Get involved in all aspects of Child Welfare and running a humanitarian NGO.
Introduction
This placement is with a humanitarian NGO that offers assistance to children whose survival and wellbeing is at risk due to issues of poverty, child labor, human trafficking and slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, natural disaster, and displacement.
This is an all-encompassing placement, where you can literally get involved in exactly where you think you can help the most, whether it be PR & Marketing, Fund-raising, NGO Administration & Management, Field Research, Building & Construction, Caring for the kids etc.
This is a real ongoing project looking to improve welfare of the most vulnerable. You should have a strong desire to help where you are needed most and be flexible with your daily tasks.
Those with specific interests in anti-traficking, child slavery, and human rights interests can be accommodated for and are strongly encouraged to apply.
Daily Life
Below is a list of things that you can do, according to your talents, interests and expertise.
• Accompanying children on trips to their villages to be reunited with their families
• Aid packages –sourcing, buying and distributing food parcels
• Construction (carpentry, brick laying, clearing and re-building)
• Cooking, cleaning, and general day to day activities at the orphanages/children’s projects.
• Creative development; help with a range of projects including the launch of a series of
books which will include stories, photographs and pictures created by the children about their lives
• Designing and running a series of workshops including art, dance, music, sports, swimming, and more.
• Fund-raising; a vital part of the foundation. To include making links with your own communities at home and holding charity events or organising publicity.
• Improving facilities (painting, putting in new beds and bedding, organising new tables and chairs for dining areas, new kitchen equipment)
• Improving sanitary conditions (creating new plumbing systems or sanitising existing facilities)
• Interacting with the children through play and games and improving their emotional wellbeing where possible
• Investigating the day to day running of a series of orphanages and children’s projects
• Medical support (for those with a medical background) checking the health of the
children and treating any minor ailments or suggesting a necessary plan of treatment where applicable.
• PR; writing articles for publication and editing the quarterly on-line news letters
• Project development; creating and developing a series of ‘street schools’ and ‘safe houses’ for children living in slums and subjected to child prostitution and trafficking
• Raising awareness within tourism; talking to tourists to raise awareness of the foundation’s work and the danger of donating to ‘false’ orphanages where the children are being exploited
• Research; visiting other projects and communities to evaluate their needs and forge links
• Responding to emails from donors and sponsors
• Taking the children on trips i.e. to the zoo, beach, picnics etc.
• Teaching (for those with an appropriate background) or evaluating existing teaching standards
• Website development to include building new websites for our projects so that they can become independent
You are asked to work 5 days per week. The working day starts at 08.00 and finishes at around 18.30. On days off you are welcome to do any activities available on the island.
Accommodation
The accommodation varies according to your requests and itinerary. Luxurious accommodation can be provided for at an extra premium, but mostly the accommodation is in clean small homestays.
Volunteers may share a bedroom with one or two other people, always of their own sex. The rooms have a fan and lockable storage (air conditioned rooms and rooms with a swimming pool can be arranged for an extra fee).
Three meals per day for every day worked are included in the price, these are provided by a resident cook or a local Warung (local restaurant/stall) and usually consist of rice with vegetables, meat or fish. Should volunteers have special dietary requirements we will do our best to accommodate, however volunteers will need to bring extra funds for eating out at restaurants on their days off.
Extra Activities
Since all volunteers arrive into Bali at the beginning and end of their trip (and many stay in Bali throughout) there are all the usual tourist attractions available to do on days off. Some attractions include:
• Scuba diving
• Sailing
• Snorkelling
• Island hopping
• Zoo
• Elephant park
• Swim with dolphins
• Climb volcanoes
• Visit temples
• White water rafting
• Horse riding
• Shopping
Requirements
* Min age 18 - Max age 60
* Minimum 1 month commitment
* Reasonable physical fitness
* Ability to work in a hot climate
* Basic English
* CRB Police Check to work with children
* Full travel & medical insurance
* Full vaccinations
* Necessary flights & visas
NO commission is added to the cost of this project by Global Nomadic. We ask instead for a flat placement fee of £195 per project (paid securely via Paypal). We offer full pre-departure support, ongoing email assistance and a full range of discounts with our selected partners.
Send us an email enquiry to find out more, or click the 'Join this Project' button below if you are ready to get involved. |
