Volunteer Spirit Association vsa thailand Workcamp Programme 2017 s Content

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  Age over 18 years.
  
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  Ability to communicate in English or full intention to try.
  
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  Friendliness and love to learn new things.
  
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  Adaptable, flexible and open-minded.
  
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  Cultural respect.
  

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  Camp leader will be the one who manages and answers your questions, the camp leader will be the coordinator between international volunteers and local hosts in the beginning of camp. After a while, international volunteers can learn to communicate themselves with the local host, even if we use different languages. We welcome creative idea to reach the camp goal.
  
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  Cooking Team and Cleaning team volunteers take turn for cooking, cleaning.
  
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  Simple life volunteers are expected to stay at public hall, temple, school, Home stay, forest camping, or depending on what project they’ve selected entails.
  

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  Participation fee is used for food and accommodation during workcamp and association management. Volunteers take care of their own expenses, such as souvenirs, alcohols, personal food, free time travel expenses, and also expense before and after their camp.
  
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  Volunteers will pay the participation fee on the arrival day at the camp to their camp leader.
  

VSA is not financially supported by government to host projects related to IVS. Hence all projects are self-funded with a participation fee. Given the remote locations and various complexities we have tried our best to make it as affordable as possible for volunteers. Being a non-profit organization, we emphasize on transparency, below is how we spend collected participation fee.

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  Food, accommodation and logistics of volunteer during workcamp
  
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  Project setup costs. (material and logistics cost)
  
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  Running the camp. (wages of professional like mason, carpenter, plumber etc.), and training local youth will be supported by us.)
  
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  Office running/admin expenses. (Internet, photocopy, stationary, electricity, phone, salaries, office equipment, tools and rent etc.)
  
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  Supporting small community project.
  
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  International travel costs to global conferences and membership fee for networking.
  

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  Contact the VSA partners in your resident country
  
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  Complete Volunteer Exchange Form
  
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  Participate in Phone/ Skype Interview (only for some workcamps)
  
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  With acceptance, the volunteer will get acceptance letter and information sheet by email via sending organization
  
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  With confirmation of acceptance, the volunteer needs to confirm their participation by completing the confirmation form within the acceptance letter and sends to workcamp@volunteerspirit.or.th or sending organization.
  
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  Once all these steps are completed, pure able to join the work camp and share an amazing intercultural time together!
  

Please see Summary of Countries and Territories entitled for Visa Exemption and Visa on Arrival to Thailand. We will prepare invitation letter and send to sending organization for people who need visa to Thailand.

See more information about VISA to Thailand or Thai Embassy.com

Remark:

If you have Tourist VISA, do not go out of Thailand until your VISA invalidate because the Tourist VISA will be finished, and you have to asking for VISA again at Thai Consulate abroad.