Deadline:
As soon as possible
Location(s)
Cambodia Laos Nepal Thailand
Overview
In 2001 we were IT learning pioneers in Northeast Thailand, dedicated to reduce poverty. We still are, in Southeast Asia. Openmind Projects is nonprofit education and development organization arranging for overseas volunteer opportunities and providing free training and other support to local people, schools, conservation and other projects in Southeast Asia.
Details
Openmind Projects Foundation is an NGO active in Southeast Asia
Founded in 2002, registered in Thailand, 2/2556, and with a network of local people and a global network of supporters, we help village girls and boys to better education. We work to unlock tech and innovation to serve the poor! Diversity and inclusion is in our DNA. It unlocks creativity and innovation.
Breaking ethnic, cultural and gender barriers to reduce poverty, we bring different cultures, rich and poor, together to understand not only the opportunities of tech and 21st century learning but also the problems of the poor.
Right from our birth in 2001 we believed tech will help the poor and we’re passionate about implementing practical solutions to do the job! We do this in our three pillars: a Training Center, Learning Camps and villages. And our next ambition is to launch an online market place for villagers to be able to sell their products direct without middlemen. We do this with limited resources and depend on international support and donations.
Once upon a time
There was IT in Isan, a pioneer IT project in Northeast Thailand based on the idea that IT can be the poor man’s best help to learn out of poverty! Two orphan homes and a village were the first projects!
DED, Demonstrate, show children what they can do with a computer, give them time to Explore, find out by themselves, and they will eventually Discover, learn and share what the learned with their friends.
IT in Isan became Openmind Projects and since then we use this simple principle, Learn by Doing, to all projects, our Training Center, our Learning Camps and in the field, the villages.
Volunteers
Choose from many local grassroots projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal. Teach at schools, ecotourism, in villages, towns, conservation, national parks, child and health care, hospitals, on islands, in the mountains. As a local NGO we really can match your skills and interests with the local needs.
Our three-day Volunteer & Cross Cultural Training has proved and improved to be a vital start for successful volunteering. Intense training by local people who come from the field projects we support. They know how to prepare you. Learn language and culture, teaching and volunteering, practice your new skills in real situations.
Come for the training and spend the whole week at our Center. A great start to your volunteering.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Dates
Deadline: As soon as possible
Cost/funding for participants
Low cost volunteering. Free week at our Center if volunteering for 4 weeks or more.
Free registration, no application costs. Volunteer donations go to local support only. Free training before start.
Why Volunteer With A Charity
Donations are spent 100 % on local projects.
- AFFORDABLE VOLUNTEERING: Openmind Projects makes volunteering at low costs possible since no money goes to overseas salaries, overhead or profit.
- A CHARITY IN ASIA MEANS LOCAL UNDERSTANDING AND LOWER COSTS: Working with local grass roots, our time and money is spent on helping local people only.
- A NONPROFIT: All volunteer and other donations go to local people, projects and supporting volunteer work.
- RESPONSIBLE VOLUNTEERING MEANS PREPARING AND TRAINING: Responsible volunteering means prepare to volunteer. Receive and read our Online Volunteer Handbook before you travel. Welcome to our Volunteer Training on arrival, a fun and eye opening week of culture, language, volunteer and teach training!
- GREAT IDEAS, GREAT OPENMINDERS, GREAT VOLUNTEERS: Together local people and international supporters and volunteers put great ideas into action, making a difference for all involved!
- INNOVATIVE EDUCATION, INSPIRED LEARNING: Motivation and confidence are the parents of learning and the learners are theier children! This is how we think, that is how we start. Our trainees and our campers are inspired to learn by doing.They learn something and then they get a chance to use what they just learned!
- THE VOLUNTEER SUPPORT THAT MATTERS: Our support to volunteers focus on what matters to a volunteer! The rest we leave to the traveler; flights, insurance etc. thus avoiding unnecessary costs. Volunteetrs get our Online Volunteer Handbook before travel and are welcome to Volunteer Training on arrival. We believe volunteers are better than us, an NGO, at handling travel, insurance and similar preparations. This means lower costs than paying for a comprehensive volunteer and travel package from an overseas agency!
- SAFETY: Our volunteers go to our projects and stay with host families that we know well. We are local! Volunteers can always call us and we advice on safety issues, such as traffic, diseases, food. Very few foreigners get into trouble in Thailand and when they do it is mostly traffic accidents and/or alcohol/drugs!
- LOCAL FRIENDSHIPS, TEAMWORK AND A CHANCE TO SEE THE UNKNOWN: We and your local hosts will tell you and can show you the things unknown to tourists. Learn about Unseen Southeast Asia with Openmind Projects!
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
