V2T

Beeing Volunteer

Volunteering/ Internship/ Educational Agreement

Who can Volunteer

We welcome individuals, couples, families and groups. People from all walks of life, including students, (student groups) professionals, artists, career changers, retirees and veterans, regardless of age or experience from around the world.  If you are under 18, talk to us, exceptions are possible. We also welcome volunteers with disabilities. If you're not sure, just ask.

Internship/ Educational Agreement

V2T Vienna is a state licensed association and can sign MoU's, educational agreements, certificates of volunteering/internships with your educational institution, but also our local partners - schools can sign such documents (within our project).

The aim of the association is to promote and support voluntary work of young people and adults, and to make a significant contribution to development cooperation and to create international understanding.

The association has a variety of tools in different areas that have a sustainable impact on student aid, apprenticeship, national and adult education and that allow to exploit the potential of volunteering. In addition, the association aims to contribute to science and research in these areas.

Reasons, Motivation, Approaches and Goals

Family volunteering in Northeast Thailand
Give your children the adventure of a lifetime with V2T in the unspoiled northeast of Thailand. Bring your teens or toddlers to explore the customs and culture of rural Thailand and at the same time help to support the village community.

Volunteering after college
is an adventurous option that you can take to make the world a better place, and benefit yourself a little in the process. College grads who aren't sure what they want to do with their lives are often advised to take an internship somewhere to get a feel for life in a certain line of work. Volunteering can serve the same purpose. You may find your passion is helping people. Volunt2thai is a place that can teach you a lot, it's real life no setup.


You are on the way to become a teacher?
You absolve a teacher training course? A pre-service teacher training course leading to a professional qualification a qualified teacher status, like "Lehramtsstudium in Germany" or "PGCE Teacher Training course? Complete your teacher orientation or internship at V2T in Thailand. V2T can sign Educational Agreements with your university / College. As an intern, you can gain initial pedagogical experience or expand your existing knowledge in one of the primary schools we work with! Your key task is to assist local teachers in teaching. If you already have previous knowledge, you can even manage your own class.


Joint intercultural learning
Volunt2Thai receives volunteers through "Mercy for Thailand" which is a partner organization of "Worldwide Volunteers" from Germany. The volunteers are sent via the program of the German Federal Ministry, for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Social jobs
You will gain valuable international work experience. In particular, by working with local people in social institutions, you will gain deep insights into the lifestyle of local people while doing an internship in social work abroad.

Sabbatical for Local Engagement
If you take a sabbatical year, a prolonged hiatus in your career to fulfill some dream, consider to connect it with some social work. Here in the Villages there are many activities which allow you to deal with new things.You can reorient yourself and gain new focus.

Pensioners, retirees, we ask for your valuable knowledge
You were a teacher, craftsman, advertising expert? You would like to pass on the knowledge gathered in your life? Not only the schools, the project itself but especially the young volunteers can benefit from their knowledge.

Volunteering for veterans
No matter what your volunteer interests may be, there's a role you'll enjoy. Whether it's driving the Tuck Tuck, teaching at the schools, being good friend and advisor for young volunteers, grocery shopping or running errands for volunteers in your community, doing repair work, yard work or doing construction, there's a need you can help fulfill.

TEFL, TESOL & CELTA certificate, you just received it and you're planning to teach in Asia? Great!
Give back, use your skills to support the underprivileged children. It will help you to gain experiance before you start a paid job. Its a win-win situation, you will get some real life training and the children at the schools which can not afford English teachers also come to lessons.

Volunteering with a group
If your group or university is considering a volunteering excursion to Thailand then contact Volunt2thai. We have the group volunteering know-how to ensure that your group volunteering experience will be one that you will never forget.


The presence of volunteers has drastically changed the lives of people in the villages over the past decade. The current generation of six-year-olds will also be taught English, and they too will gain a general understanding of the world and gain new insights into foreign cultures. This will positively influence and accompany them in their personal development.

No matter from which side you look at it, Volunt2Thai is win-win.

What you bring to the table?

It is good that you are serious about being committed to others and that you are willing to invest in yourself and others. You can contribute to society and make a difference. all you need is ....

  • open mind
  • positive attitude
  • compassionate heart
  • knowledge, experience, practice
  • motivation to help in any way that you can!

What insights will you gain

Volunt2Thai can support your specific project goals like:

  • Experiencing and reflecting upon intercultural collaboration.
  • Becoming aware of diversity in intercultural communicative exchanges in a highly globalized society.
  • Learning to deal with diversity, to mediate in a diverse setting and to cooperate respectfully.
  • Being able to understand others’ perspectives.
  • Developing the awareness, understanding, and skills necessary to work (collaborate, communicate) in a diverse world.
  • Developing communicative awareness (the ability to establish relationships between linguistic expressions and cultural contents, to identify, and consciously work with various communicative conventions of foreign partners, and to modify correspondingly one’s own linguistic forms of expression).
  • Developing the capacity to acquire new knowledge of a culture and cultural practices and the ability to act using that knowledge, those attitudes and those skills under the constraints of real-time communication and interaction.
  • Learning to tolerate ambiguity (the ability to accept lack of clarity and ambiguity and to be able to deal with it constructively).
  • Developing behavioral flexibility (the ability to adapt one’s own behavior to different requirements and situations).
  • Developing respect for otherness (Curiosity and openness, readiness to suspend disbelief about other cultures and belief about one’s own).
  • Developing empathy (The ability to intuitively understand what other people think and how they feel in concrete situations. Empathic persons are able to deal appropriately with the feelings, wishes and ways of thinking of other persons).
  • Developing digital literacy and competencies for efficient and meaningful collaboration.
  • Learning to undertake research in a plurilingual and intercultural setting; -> Plurilingual competence.
  • Identifying, analyzing, comparing and understanding relevant discourses being used to refer to people on the media in the different cultures.
  • Identifying, analyzing, comparing and understanding attitudes towards people in the different cultures; V2T demands from all participants a highly engaged positive attitude, responsibility, flexibility, open behavior, open productive communication among the team members and intercultural awareness.

Being Volunteer

Program Start Date and Duration

Our program starts when the volunteer arrives and lasts for the length of time determinated by the volunteer. You can choose to stay for two weeks all the way up to one year. On the day after arrival all volunteers receive a program orientation and are given the opportunity to rest after meeting the other volunteers and team members.

Orientation covers everything you need to know for your volunteer program including an introduction to Thailand, the village, Thai customs, rules and expectations, safety, points of interests in Isan and the surrounding area and introduction to the running projects. The orientation will also give you a chance to meet other volunteers and swap contact details for weekend travel and socializing.

The working week

The working week is from Monday to Friday the weekends are free.

What is daily routine

In the morning, depending on the daily tasks, groups are formed to go either to the school to teach or to the rice fields, forests, water bodies, construction sites and farmhouses (depending on the season).

  • 07:00h Shower, breakfast and morning meeting
  • 08:30h Dividing into teams, go to school - others (pending on project)
  • 12:00h Lunchtime, eat and relax, depending on the project site
  • 13:00h Work continues on the project site.
  • 15:00h Work at the placement ends and the evening is then free to be used for your own pleasure.
  • 19:00h DInner (volunteers cook by them self in the campus kitchen)

School holidays

During the school vacations we organize Summer School on campus. Basically, we create various activity stations, sports, games, music, creative arts, languages, etc..  But also different projects are planned and implemented with the children. The children come themselves or are brought by their relatives.

What is the mission and the task

Your job at V2T is to broaden the boundaries of the children and improve their understanding of the world with your influence and presence so that when they grown up they will be able to act in a wider intercultural dimension. With a better understanding of the world they occupy,  they will be better equipped to determine their own destiny. In simplest terms "all project participants will have left behind knowledge and good memories".

Motivation

"I think one of the most important things in a child's life is to have the support and guidance of their parents as they grow and learn. The family unit and structure in Thailand is evident when this guidance is able to be accomplished. I am asking you to consider to Volunteer to further the most important asset Thailand has, their children.

This is something that I sometimes think we forget because we all get so busy in our adult lives. I so much value the guidance I was given as a child. I would ask you to think about that in your own situation for just one minute. Now think about this you as an individual if you decided to contribute to these children's future would be investing in Thailand's future for us all.

For you to donate your time and tell others to help as a community always does, would enable V2T  to establish through proper education, leadership,  a good, strong, Thailand for all involved. The sheer commitment to this project clearly shows the children, their families and the endless teams of volunteers know the bright future of Thailand's youth is its strongest asset."


- written by Michael Pachero for Volunt2Thai

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Freiwilligendienst im Ausland Freiwilligendienst Volunteering Vrijwilligersdienst Thailand
Vrijwilligerswerk Freiwilligendienst Thailand Volunteering Thailand Volontaire Thaïlande
Volunt2Thai vrijwilligerswerk buitenland Das Volunt2Thai-Freiwilligenprojekt ist ein Dorfentwicklungsprojekt, das sich auf benachteiligte Kinder konzentriert. Denn in Thailand, insbesondere im Nordosten Thailands, sind die Menschen sehr arm. Einzelne Familienmitglieder sind oft gezwungen, ihre Kinder und älteren Menschen für längere Zeit zurückzulassen, um in städtische Zentren oder ins Ausland zu reisen und dort zu arbeiten. Die Situation ist sehr schlecht für die Entwicklung der Kinder, die ohne ihre Eltern zurückgelassen werden. Die Kinder müssen sich um ihre Geschwister und auch um die alten Menschen kümmern. Das Schulsystem ist kaum entwickelt, den Schulen fehlt es an Material und Lehrern. Deshalb ist es die wichtigste Aufgabe von Volunt2Thai, diesen unterprivilegierten Kindern eine Chance auf Bildung zu geben. Wir tun dies über Freiwillige, die wir in die Schulen schicken, mit denen wir zusammenarbeiten. Im V2T Campus & Cultural Centre in Thailand heißen wir Freiwillige oder Praktikanten/Projektteilnehmer aus der ganzen Welt und aus allen Lebensbereichen willkommen. Unabhängig von Ihrem Alter oder Ihrer Erfahrung werden Sie als freiwilliger Projektteilnehmer unabhängig in einer Kommune auf dem Campus leben. Der Campus ist umgeben von Natur, Feldern und thailändischen Dörfern, mit denen wir zusammenarbeiten. Die Freiwilligen übernehmen die Verantwortung für ihr eigenes tägliches Leben auf dem Campus. Ihre Hauptaufgabe als V2T-Freiwilliger wird es sein, mit den Einheimischen zu interagieren und in den Schulen Unterstützung zu leisten, indem Sie durch Spiele und Klassenarbeiten grundlegende Englischkenntnisse vermitteln. Zusätzlich können die Freiwilligen je nach Datum eine kostenlose Lehrerausbildung erhalten.