Volunteers will be helping with the daily routine of the orphanage - at meals, bed times, and providing simple English classes as well as initiating more practical activities for the older orphans. If you enjoy art or music then these skills will be well received. To succeed you need to be open minded, patient, warm hearted as well as highly energetic.

The school placement offers the opportunity to teach primary and secondary kids who come from a poor rural background. They gain little support from their families but are extremely keen to learn. You can help teach English and other subjects.

In both cases the institutes are well managed and the children are cared for by the hardworking staff. They lack resources so take lots of teaching aids with you.

You can combine both these placements. The locals are not used to outsiders so you will be very much welcomed on arrival and will settle in quickly to your new routines.