An international work camp is an international voluntary project in which participants from different countries can meet, live, work, learn and exchange with local people. This program aims to foster personal development, develop leadership skills, create impacts on society, and choose a brighter path to future careers.

DEADLINE: 31st January 2020
REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/m3DqbJNs7pXhrthi7

* This work camp application only eligible for Cambodian citizen, 16 – 30 years old
* Please read project info sheet in the link below before applying to our program
* You will receive an email within 3-5 working days if you were selected to our program and in the email, you will find an invitation to our orientation or an email that tells you when will be your arrival day at CYA office Phnom Penh or GEC SiemReap in order to prepare and deposit your admission fee/contribution fee.
* Project site TFC (Trapangsongkae Fishing Community, Kampot Province):
– Link to Info sheet: https://docdro.id/uxh2q5r
– Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJzbfhq0wjU&feature=emb_logo

Contribution fee

All local participants are required to pay the contribution fee USD 20.
The contribution fee is covered:
◼Food during the project period
◼Accommodation at the volunteer house provided by the center
◼Local transportation during the project (in our project site only)
◼Project cost, tools, and materials for implementing the project
◼Administration charge

Excluded:
❌Volunteer are requested to bear your own health and travel insurance.
❌Expense on the free day and other personal expenses
❌Cooking spices for the international night
❌Transportation from airport to the office

Contact Us:
📧: info@cyacambodia.org
📞: +855 – 70 495 232
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CYACAM/

Project Aims

1. Raising awareness about the value of mangrove forest to public so that they will join us to preserve, protect, and maintain it by themselves.
2. Support TFC committee members to continue their work on improving the quality of life of community members through providing better services to tourists while maintaining clean and green environment.

Project Activities

• Get to know more about local people
• Continue planting and nursing mangroves
• Create new leisure activities for tourists
• Campaigns and Actions on waste management

Living Conditions

• Food: 3 meals per day will be covered by the participation fee while volunteers will be arranged daily shift to cook your own meals.. Meals will be basic Cambodian dishes. CYA built our own kitchen equipped with basic cooking facilities inside the center. Volunteers will use the kitchen as the main cooking and eating place during the project. The camp – leader will provide you enough information about where you can buy food and ingredients for cooking. Food during free day will be excluded so we would like to ask you to bare your own expenses for that.

• Accommodation: Volunteers are going to stay in the bungalows provided at the inside the community center.The bungalows are rented by CYA from community members and in each bungalow 3 – 4 volunteers will share together. The accommodation is equipped with simple sleeping mattress, blankets, pillows and mosquito nets. There are separated bathroom and toilet located in the center where you can access by the path. It is not very perfect but this is what the villagers use, and find it very comfortable for their daily life. Accommodation outside the project during the free day is excluded so volunteers are asked to cover your own expenses.

• Things to Bring:
  • Positive energy to work and live the local lifestyle
  • Idea for energizing game and activities during you free time
  • Knowledge, education, and information about your country so that you can share with other participants
  • More clothes or you will need to wash it every day as you are going to work a lot in the water.
  • Shoes that can walk in the mud and water will be good to bring with you.
  • Some personal medicine such as allergy, mosquito repellent, and other emergencies medicine though we will provide first aids for basic condition.
  • Traditional cloth that you might want to wear in the international night
  • Food and ingredients for international dinner and snack so that you can share with local people.

• What can you expect?
  • Make more friends with local and other international volunteers
  • Contribute to local development while building a strong connection with people
  • Gain knowledge and skills through sharing with each other.
  • Have opportunity to learn and living in culture diversity
  • Experience living lifestyle of Cambodian people during your project
  • Get lots of fun when spending time working and living together

• What we expect?
  • Volunteers are read and understood this information. Be in time and stay the entire length of work camp.
  • Volunteers are aware about the concept of international voluntary service, especially International Work Camp which is not a cheap way of spending your holiday but a voluntary activity that need your high motivation and willing to achieve a certain goal together with your team.
  • Realize that living condition in Cambodia is much difference from your home country (no warm water, no air conditioning, not easy to access to international phone and internet, no soft beds, and the food is also differences etc).
  • Volunteers should understand about the aims of the work camp and realize that learning about Cambodian way and social contact is more important than manual work.
  • Volunteers are open minded, leave prejudice behind and show initiative. Volunteers should understand the situation of spending time with local people who do not speak English very well.
  • Volunteers should try the effort in trying to communicate in basic Khmer language or other way of communicating (work, pictures, gestures, etc). If you will try, you will be amazed how quick you will learn basic Khmer language.
  • Do not complain because the changing schedule during the camp, it’s depending on condition and situation. So bring some flexibility and you will stay relax and avoid a lot of stress and frustration for yourself
• About FREE DAY : Volunteers will have a weekend off to explore some tourist spots around the project site. We will not arrange any tour for everyone therefore, you can discuss among your team about where you would like to spend the weekend together. There are some interesting options for you to explore and the project manager will introduce you to some attractions but still the decision is you and your team decide. He/she also can help to arrange the transportation for you as well if you needed.