Baan Unrak Children’s Home
Focus: Community and Education.
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Project Description
Baan Unrak Children’s Home is a Thai NGO located just 22 kilometres from the Myanmar border. We are a non-government, non-religious, non-political community development project that was founded in 1991 in an effort to protect the growing number of abandoned and orphaned children in the area.
Our primary focus is on supporting children and single mothers at risk in our community. Baan Unrak provides food, shelter, medical care, psychological and emotional support, education and work opportunities to vulnerable (mainly) refugee women and children who have fled persecution in Burma (Myanmar.)
We currently have several projects within our organization:
SINGLE MOTHERS PROJECT: In 1998 Baan Unrak decided to address the single mothers’ needs as a preventative measure to stop children from being abandoned. We provide basic needs for the mothers and their children in our home, and we help mothers become self-sufficient by teaching them skills and offering employment within our ‘Sustainability Projects’.
SUSTAINABILITY PROJECTS: The sewing and weaving centre was set up to empower local women. All of our goods are designed, dyed, cut and sewn on site, and the women draw from their rich cultural and ethnic backgrounds (Burmese, Thai, Karen, and Mon) for stylish inspiration. This project creates jobs for local women and helps to generate funds for our organization.
OUTREACH PROJECT: Our outreach project expands our poverty alleviation efforts into the neighbouring communities and camps. Baan Unrak currently provides monthly relief to vulnerable women and families in these communities by donating rice, beans, oil, and clothing as well as offers health care and medical services delivered by our Home’s nurse and medic staff.
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Project Summary
Every volunteer brings a unique set of skills, experiences and expectations to Baan Unrak. We will try to utilize these skills to meet the needs of the home. Long-term volunteers are expected to work full time while at Baan Unrak, keep the regular hours assigned, and are allowed to take one day off per week.
Some examples of what volunteers do are: teach English to children and housemothers; supervise activities with children; assist with cooking (professional experience required); research and develop marketing plans for our weaving centre; publication writing; teach home schooled teenagers; gardening and planting in our organic farm; driving; translation (fluency in Thai, Spanish and/or Italian preferred); lead weekend recreational/educational activities; assist with short term volunteer groups; maintenance; construction (professional experience preferred); painting; lend a hand with a variety of office work including fund raising, correspondence with donors, filing, computer and/or website maintenance.
Food and accommodation are provided free of charge to full-time volunteers who stay for 6 months or longer. All travel costs (international and/or domestic) will be at the expense of the volunteers. Volunteers who stay for shorter periods are asked US$150 per week, with a maximum of US$900 to help the cover the expenses of the project.
We require short term volunteers to be over 21 years old, and long term volunteers are accepted if they are over 25 years old. Applicants with professional experience in working with children are preferred. We expect all of our volunteers to be flexible and open minded as they will be challenged daily with adapting to a new culture, language, lifestyle and pace of accomplishing tasks. We also require our volunteers to adopt the philosophy of the home, which is to follow a strict vegetarian diet, refrain from smoking and/or drinking while on the premises.
Baan Unrak Children’s Home
99-1 Moo 1 Nonglu
Sangkhlaburi, Kanchanaburi
Thailand 71240
Tel: +66 (0) 34 595 428 or +66 (0) 899 362 426
Email: volunteer@baanunrak.org
Website: www.baanunrak.org
Location: Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Average cost per day: $0 (Min 6 months) or $20
Focus: Community and Education
Skills needed: Volunteers must be at least 21 years old, professional experience in working with children are preferred
Baan Unrak Children’s Home
99-1 Moo 1 Nonglu
Sangkhlaburi, Kanchanaburi
Thailand 71240
Tel: +66 (0) 34 595 428 or +66 (0) 899 362 426
Email: volunteer@baanunrak.org
Website: www.baanunrak.org
Location: Kanchanaburi, Thailand
Average cost per day: $0 (Min 6 months) or $20
Focus: Community and Education
Skills needed: Volunteers must be at least 21 years old, professional experience in working with children are preferred
