VOLUNTEER IN Vietnam

Project Information
Kids don’t get cancer very often and many of those who get it can be treated and cured, leukemia and lymphoma are the common types of cancer that kids get. At present, there are approximately 100 Cancer kids, who are taken care in the hospital in Vietnam. All of them come from remote provinces and poor families, their parents are unable to afford drug, accommodation and living expenses. They have to spend from 3 to 5 months in hospital for each of treatment period and sometimes it doesn’t get any results. Sometimes, they receive some donations from the people and organizations but the support they get isn’t enough for the treatment at all. These kids are different from other normal kids, lonely and in pain day by day. With the main aim of providing treatment and care to those victims, Asia Horizon has made the alliances with the cancer kid hospital in Vietnam. This unique and humanitarian project aims to help the kid-patients who are suffering from Cancer disease in Ho Chi Minh City. Interested volunteers can join and provide any kinds of support and assistant to those cancer-kids patients.

 Volunteer’s Activities
As a volunteer working with the Cancer Kid-patients, you will take care of the children by teaching, playing and making friends with them. The volunteers will work in the Pediatric Hospital. You will make the kids happy and their days will be shorter and more interesting. You can work a half-day or all day, from Monday to Friday.

Project Skills Required
No specific qualification is required for the volunteers working with the Cancer Kids. However you need to be 18 years and above of age and other  basic requirements you need are kindness, unbiased, learning, loving and having  genuine interest and commitment to the Vietnamese culture and open to teach and serve cancer-infected children.

Arrangement of Room/Food/Supervision
We will make an appropriate provision for food, room and supervision for its volunteers from the very beginning of their arrival to the country to the end of their project. You will get a brief orientation about the premise and the schedule of the program, living with the Vietnamese host family is a great opportunity to understand the Vietnamese life, language (especially Vietnamese), culture, tradition and people. A typical Vietnamese meal (lunch or dinner) will include steamed rice or noodles, a soup dish to eat with rice, a meat (chicken, duck, beef or pork) or fish dish, and a vegetarian dish. Spring role is the most popular Vietnamese dish either deep fried or served fresh with raw vegetables, grilled prawn, crab, pork or chicken. Volunteers are also equally encouraged to make some dished of their hometown. You can get the breakfast at morning where as lunch will be prepared in 1 pm, you are allowed to take the readymade lunch packet in the project if you want and dinner is served 7 or 8 at evening. You can also get the food from outside if you wish; there are numbers of affordable restaurants and hotels in Philippines. You can’t expect a luxurious bedroom while staying with the host family. However, volunteers joining Asia Horizon-Vietnam’s orphanage program stay with the children in a hostel. Asia Horizon arranges a separate room along with a communal bath with cold water and fan for volunteers in both the host families and hostel accommodations but sometimes they may share the room if the number is large. Volunteers are expected to share same life style while staying with the host family; they may join the daily activities such as cooking, cleaning, washing and so on. Though the local fare will be provided twice a day, you will really enjoy the way of Vietnamese hospitality and generosity to the guest.  

Project Location
Placements of our primary school volunteers are located in Hanoi. Hanoi, a city between the rivers, built from lowland, has many scenic lakes and sometime is called "city of lakes”. As the capital of Vietnam for almost a thousand years, Hanoi is considered the cultural centre of Vietnam, where every dynasty has left behind their imprint. The city has many interesting cultural and historic monuments for visitors. With the rapid growth of population, an abundance of shopping centers has been built in Hanoi.

Visa Information
Citizens of certain countries can visit Vietnam (for less than 30 days) without an Entry visa, those countries include: most Asian countries, Korea, Japan and Scandinavians. Citizens from all of other countries are required to get an entry visa before departure or you can get the visa upon arrival to Vietnam. But we strongly recommend you to get a tourist visa prior to your arrival. It saves time and hassle of filling out the form in the airport, making sure you have all the documents required, and queuing up to apply for the visa. But if there is no Vietnam Embassy or Consulates in your country, then we recommend visa upon your arrival to Vietnam. 

Project Information
Program Date:  Asia Horizon volunteer Program begins with your arrival at the Hanoi Airport in Vietnam on Sunday, the day before of your project. A one-day orientation about the program including project sites, types of work, local food, climate, safety issues, health issues, culture people  etc. will be provided in Manila office before you start the project.
Program Fees: Our program fee is 80-100% less than most international volunteer organizations.