Environment Conservation

A a glance

Program information
Duration	2 week+
Placement fee	450 USD/person
Location	North of Vietnam
Type of placement	Natural conservation in Vietnam
Arrival airport	Noi Bai Airport
Activities	Immersing in unspoiled natural forest. Participants have the opportunity to experience with new discoveries about the beautiful and wild nature.
Available	During the year
Age	16 – 30

Overview 

Would you like to escape from the noise of the city and look for a peaceful place to have a vacation? Travelling abroad to join in the Natural Forest Conservation Project of VVS will be a good choice for you. Getting fresh air, listening to music of the forest to the song of thousand of birds, animals, springs sound in the forest will be a very wonderful experience for you to relax. Furthermore, you will have opportunities to feed  wild animals, play with them in some way, taste real life of wildlife in the tropical forest. All that thing you do will play an important role to protect nature wildlife and forest.

Highlights

•  Taking part in activities at the site of the project and help local officer to build the data of biodiversity of the forest where the volunteer is working on.
•  Helping with wildlife research. Current methods include using automatic sensor cameras, butterfly traps and a bat census.
• Taking part in daily activities such as feeding animals, plan tree in the jungle, and travel into the jungle to check the safety of some animals.
• Taking part in the raising campaign of forest in some activities for local people.
• Assisting in environmental education projects in schools and local communities
• Constructing, maintaining and extending trails within the park
• Working on maintenance of the park’s nursery garden which provides native species of trees to be used in reforestation activities

What the project says

• Our mission is to bring a meaningful program for volunteer all around the world in their vacation time, particularly, bring an opportunity for participants to experience wild natural in a mountainous area, the interaction of people and nature.
• We aim to bring an opportunity for participant for self-development, a transparent lifestyle, will help and give back to our nature and community.
• We also promote respect of the nature and its power plus caring for the environment that surrounds it.

Itinerary

Day 1 : Arrive into Hanoi city (Noi Bai airport)

This will be the first day you come to Vietnam join in our project. VVS staff will pick you up from Noi Bai airport directly to the accommodation where it will be your home during the time you stay inVietnamand work in our project. Then you will have the rest of the day, if this day still remaining in working time, we will have a short orientation at the Homestay for you for all needed procedure for your stay and get involved in the project.

Day 2

A short training about lesson preparation will be conducted to you, it’s some transportation policies and how to be safe in the trips. Then, you will have time to visit and say hello to local people, visit the field and staffs whom you will work with. The time for this will complete a day early and then you  have time to discover something surrounding you.

From Day 3 to the end of duration

From Day 3, you will be working with  full time support of Vietnamese staff members and will be involved in a variety of tasks that will be scheduled for you everyday. You will join in the farm works and help local staffs plan trees and feed the animals. Everything would be great for you and you should do it initiative, it is very helpful for you to make a friendly way to work with local people, give the best thing for them and you also get the best feeling  joining them.

Furthermore, you will take part in the journey in the jungle to experience  wildlife and know how to survive in the jungle. It will be a wonderful trip with the support of skilled staff  organizing activities lead you to go into the jungle.

Your Final day

Have a small farewell party to say goodbye to all your new friends, take your final photos and pack your bag full of souvenirs you’ll travel back to the airport, or you will be off for further adventures elsewhere. The return transfer from your accommodation to Noi Bai airport is not covered within your project fee, VVS will be able to make recommendations and help you arrange a transfer if you need them to. You should budget approximately US$25 for this trip.

Price

Price : 450 USD/person

Placement fee includes:

VVS’s placement fee includes the following:

• Self-catering (budget approximately $80 per week)
• Local transportation
• Registration fees
• Written materials abroad
• Written materials pre-departure
• Facilitating a volunteer experience in program site that specifically meets your needs
• Arranging secure, high quality, centrally located accommodation based on your budget.
• Assisting with local transport and providing advice on public transport routes
• Airport meet and greet service
• Complete English preparation and orientation information pack
• Advice, assistance, and guidance before, during, and after your stay
• In-country staff support
• 24/7 emergency support and assistance

Exclude:

Flights, Insurance, Visas,ReturnAirporttransfer, food, accommodation.

Type of volunteer

• Eco-tourism
• Economic Development
• Environment
• Feasibility Studies
• Fixing Fences
• Food
• Gardening
• Income-generation
• Organic Farming
• Organizational Development
• Parks
• Planting
• Reforestation
• Research
• Tourism
• Tree Planting
• Volunteering

Project

What does the project do?
This project is extremely important in terms of preserving the biodiversity of the cloud forest and protecting local watersheds. The work focuses on protecting existing forests through reforestation, monitoring human activity and its impact, and environmental education. Volunteers can participate in the following activities: forestry program (restoring degraded areas and sustainable wood production), sustainable agriculture, community involvement, research, eco-construction (environmentally-friendly building practices), and environmental education.

What’s the project like?
This project is in a fairly in the jungle area of the Northwest of Vietnam. Spending your free time in a jungle, getting fresh air everyday and participating in wonderful farm work, hiking in the forest will be a good experience for you on the trips. Furthermore, fresh fruit, vegetable and animals are available for processing foods. Tasting this kind of foods will be unforgettable memories for you.

Location: 
The activities of programs will be implemented in the jungle of the North of Vietnam. With locations are pristine forests, which have not been destroyed and impacted by human to the primitive nature. At the same time, the conservation of rare animals and plants in the Red Book of the nation and the world is campaigned. Come to visit some small villages, we return to the cradle of nature with wild landscape of mountains, deep forests, and wildlife experience and come back to Mother Nature of every human being. It will be the interested challenges for who want to try the new life and love the nature.

Role of the volunteer: 
This project is seeking volunteers for its ecological projects for periods of at least one month. It includes: the re-vegetation of hill sides using native plants to reduce erosion and create habitats; promoting the use of sustainable practices; renewable energy development; and environmental education. An interest in ecological sustainability and knowledge of regional plants is helpful but unnecessary. Willing hands and a desire to help restore a damaged biosphere are the most important requirements.

Main activities:
With the support of our staff who will organize  activities for working in the jungle, it will help participants not only taste the new things but also get the best experience in working, relaxing and making friendships.
The activities and schedule will be set by VVS or  inquiries, suggestion from the participants. The plan will be fixed before the trip. All of the activity plans will be sent and let participants know via email.

Accommodation

What type of accommodation will I be in?

You will share a room with one to three others in a beautiful home stay or guest house. Accommodations are basic equipment, it’s  a good chance for you to get a real culture of minority ethnic life style. Some good day, tents will be set up outside, then participants will stay in the tents and attend to the fire camping at night.

Accommodation facilities

You should budget roughly $80 per week for food. Meal will be supported by the food teams, it will be divided in orientation days or you can sometime join in the local family with their daily foods or you will be always warmly welcome in their small parties.  In some days, the journey will take a whole day, then foods should be prepared beforehand and VVS staff will help you choose which is the best food or where to buy for our journeys. Taking part in the journey, it will get much energy from you, so you should make sure that food will suit to you to have a good health for the trip.

Some night, if having nice weather, we will offer you to have fire camping outside; it will be very fresh and wonderful time and relaxes. Then, you should prepare a sleeping bag for this program.

Things to bring from home

If you are travelling to the project between May and September, please ensure that you bring some short and cool clothes, and some warm clothes should be prepared for some cold night. Although the days are usually bright and sunny, nights and early mornings can get cold. Finally, don’t forget some books and other entertainment for relaxing in the evenings

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