Volunteers.

Hey ya!
I've decided to tell something more about my experience with SCAO and SCOOP.
And today I would like to speak about volunteers and their roles at SCAO schools.
There are two kind of volunteers - long term and short term. I suppose we can consider all volunteers who participate with SCAO more then 6 weeks as long term. Because even if it looks like "only" 2 months, in the end a volunteer and the organisation have gave a lot of things to each other (and the most important one is experience, of course).

SCAO I

The 1st school what was built under SCAO name and where are 2 Red Cross long term volunteers at the moment. The school is separated from the volunteer house, there are 2 big classes. Class hours are from 8 am to 7.30 pm 

There are Khmer teachers together with foreign teachers, but basically they are teaching different hours.

At the volunteer house you are free to cook whatever you would like to, you will share a bedroom or have your own (depends on availability at the moment), and every 2nd Thursday there is General meeting in the evening.

SCAO II

I've already described accommodation at the 2nd school in the previous post.

Materials.

At the schools we have a lot of materials that you might need for your lessons! There are Student books, the curriculum, flashcards, extra books and worksheets, examples of test and lesson plans... We also have the projector and tablets to using MultiMedia at the classroom. You are free and welcome to use whatever you need, SCAO encourages their volunteers to use their creativity and imagination to make lessons more interesting, deep and fascinating for the students.

Bring up the new idea at the meeting and be sure that your organisation and inspiration skills would be appreciated.

Extra events.

It is nice to have a movie or karaoke night some time, and it is nice when new volunteers bring the fresh spirit into usual routine. Since September 2014 we have Go Green class every month when we are talking about the importance of taking care of the nature together... And it is amazing when you have an idea and thanks to team-work it becomes in something extremely interesting both for teachers and students.

Free time.

It is also important to have a break from teaching and have fun on the weekend. Spend a night in Phnom Penh, visit Thai or Vietnam, swim in the sea! Rest and come back to your teaching responsibilities empowered.

Volunteering in Cambodia - http://savepoorchildreninasia.org/volunteering/

See you soon =)

myself together with our monks students - Nov, 2014