Please spread the word

This was our first day at Sova’s school, which is located in the beautiful rural Cambodian countryside a short distance from Battambang.  We will be teaching three classes a day ages to teenagers.  He also wants our help writing a leaflet about the school, which can be used as networking information to raise their profile in Cambodia and also abroad.  I also said I would think of ways to attract more international volunteers. 

So if anyone reading this can also spread the word about this volunteering holiday please do and let me know if you have any questions.   I do believe that anyone would enjoy this experience and they could do it for a little as two weeks.  It is mainly to help with teaching English but just hanging out with the kids and getting to know them is also just as important as it builds their confidence.  Other skills can also be very useful.  Taran also loves it and gets involved in the classes with ideas of how to teach.  He labelled lots of vegetables to teach the words and the colours.  Kelty and Taran also got the kids to play a relay race of dressing up in different clothes and taking them off.  It is fun trying to think up fun ways to teach them.  One of the other volunteers thought of Chinese whispers. He whispered a sentence in English eg ‘The teacher has funny hair’ and they had to pass it on correctly until the last person then had to say it out loud.  So much laughter!

Sova offers for you to stay at the house but if you want more luxurious accommodation you can stay in the local town Battambang which is only a 20 minute tuktuk ride away.  Battambang is a great place, lots to do and see and the spectacular Angkor Wat is only 3 hrs away and the Thai border also only 3 hrs away offering some beautiful islands and beaches.

It is a no brainer.  Take a sabbatical and come and help!