Vina Volunteer Service (VVS) is a non-profit organization in Vietnam that connects international volunteers with community development projects throughout the country. VVS began in 2001 and offers a variety of short and long-term volunteer placements focused on education, the environment, and community development. VVS works with local partners across Vietnam to provide volunteers opportunities to gain experience living and working alongside local communities.

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VVS - Vina Volunteer Serviece
“Connecting people” - “Sharing life”
Where it all started
Vina Volunteer Service (VVS) is the first company in Vietnam who bring variety of
volunteer placements for volunteers with the hope that we can support for the community
development and natural conservation.
From 2001, a youth volunteer club was founded call Green Youth Club included more
than 100 members throughout Vietnam. Green Youth Volunteer Club is operating by
youth people with the aim to organize volunteer activities for youth in all over of Vietnam.
Then, we established long relationships with many orphanage centers, association, and
many Natural Park, forest and Jungle in Vietnam. From time to time, we cooperated with
many NGOs in all over the world and became a host organization with many placements
in Vietnam in the field of volunteer for development.
Vina Volunteer Service Today
As a teenager become the adult, with the sustainably experience staffs and leaders,
Contact us Today Green Youth Club become Vina Volunteer Service Ltd (VVS). We would like to
join in the world with volunteer services. With our experiences and long-lasting
Vina Volunteer Service relationships with partners at the sites of our projects through Vietnam we would like
bring more opportunities for international volunteers and want to bring the opportunities
Adress: No. 158 Hoa Bang Street - for local organizations achieve their goals. We also have recruitment staffs working all
Yen Hoa Ward - Cau Giay District over of Vietnam at the site from the North to the South.
Through our placement of the volunteers in Vietnam, where they share the daily life
- Ha Noi - Vietnam experience of local people while working in their particular community, side by side, the
Tel: +844 668 04 008 volunteer will be rewarded with learning quite a bit about themselves and their role on
Fax : +844 668 04 009 this planet. Most leave with their life’s compass pointing clear and strong to a new
Email: info@vietnamvolunteer.net direction in their lives.
Website:www.vietnamvolunteer.net Furthermore, as destination placements in Vietnam for volunteers all over the world,
Hotline 24/7: +84 974 313 104 we focus on the best way for participants come to Vietnam for doing volunteer work and
- Mr. David Nguyen travel responsibility. Through our programs and projects, volunteer not only get new
experiences in the new land, but also feel pleasure with their philosophy and their
purpose of traveling.
Vietnam is beautiful, diverse, and exotic, and the people are unforgettable. Your time
here will be spent safely, surrounded by a community grateful for your presence.
Vina Volunteer Service in the community development
We help to create local employment wherever we send volunteers. Our project has
been implemented in many sites of Vietnam. Volunteer come to help local people, they
not only bring their knowledge, experiences but also bring the hope, force and
improvement of economy for the people in the local area.
Having so many colleagues in all over Vietnam means that we have an extensive
network of local knowledge, enabling us to channel the skills of our volunteers to
places they are really needed.
Cultural exchange and free getting the experience in new land and life
Joining in one of the placements of VVS, volunteers can learn from the people they
meet and environment they live. Mutual learning and mutual respect is what cultural
exchange is all about.
We welcome approaches from potential partners - universities, schools, institute,
sending organizations, individuals; we will arrange the best and most suitable
placements that meet their needs and their willingness. We also highly appreciate and
welcome the ideas from participants; if you want to do volunteer work with us by your
ideas we would love to hear from you. We believe that flexibility on our part is a
necessary consequence of our respect for our partners and our respect for participants.

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VVS PROGRAM
The projects we offer can be emplemented on either a short or long term basis and focus on traditional education,
environment education and community development. There are numerous projects for volunteers at VVS in all
over of Vietnam. We offer volunteers with many options in both urban and rural areas to promote cultural
exchange and and experince with the lives of local people.
Work with street children in Hanoi
You have a warm heart and a willingness to help anyone who is homeless and in a
vulnerable group, especially street children. A volunteer work in Vietnam project that focus on
street children school will be the best choice for you to have a meaningful program give a
hand of help. A school with more than 75 children, they are supported by local authority and
volunteers for basic education. By giving your support to children, directly give them the
English lesson or some lessons in life skill, donate them some small gift such as book, pen,
pictures….you will make them very happy and get wonderful things in your life. You also have
true experiences with new people in a special place, because, Hanoi is one of the most
peaceful city in the world.
For more in formation of this project, please click
http://vietnamvolunteer.net/volunteer-in-hanoi-with-street-children.html
Education Projects
VVS has been cooperating with Volunteer to help rural children in Sapa
variety of host organizations in the
hold country of Vietnam to provide Would you like to join us to help minority ethnic children? Sapa is one of the places in the
the International volunteer helps. North South of Vietnam where it has many types of minority ethnic group live. They live in the
For vulnerable groups that include high mountain area and far from the schools, when we take the research in Sapa, It is fact
orphans, disable children, street that many children not go to school because they live in very poor families, they have to go to
kids and rural youth the basic the Sapa town selling goods in the streets to earn money. Most of them are in the age of from
education is limited. The education thirteen to twenty. One idea opens with us that we would like to collect them in the volunteer
program will be a solution for this classes with the help of local people and support from Vietnam volunteers and international
matter. The program can be volunteers, we would like bring them a basic education and help them get more opportunity to
undertaken in a short and long later integrate into their local community.
term projects base and focus on
traditional and new education For more in formation of this project, please clikc
methods for children and youth at http://vietnamvolunteer.net/volunteer-in-sapa-to-help-rural-children.html
the local school where lack of
English native speakers and need
the volunteer helps. Volunteer to help children in Da Nang
Are you willing to give a hand of help for the poor and orphaned children? You suppose do
something for the community, especially for the children in somewhere in the world. In your
travel time, you want to contribute something that you have for the society. Travelling with
responsibility to Dan Nang, Vietnam is the good choice for you. In the best place for joining in
the very wonderful weather and beautiful sight-seeing you will have opportunity to help the
local children in The Centre of Orphan in Da Nang city. By staying a homestay and giving the
lessons to children you will make a difference for the lives of orphans and poor children in the
local community. You also have true experiences with new people in a special place,
because, Danang is famous for green city in Vietnam with long beautiful beach and beautiful
Han River.
For more in formation of this project, please click
http://vietnamvolunteer.net/voluteer-in-danang-to-help-children.html

3. Homestay in the north of Vietnam
T r Vietnam is a multicultural nation with more than 54 ethnic groups, the cross-culture between
ethnics makes Vietnam has a rich culture that we can find nowhere worldwide. Vietnamese
culture discovery trip is a fascinating journey that is attracted for anyone to set their foots in
Indochina. Homestay is the project that VVS wants to organize with the purpose to develop
the culture exchange between Vietnam and other countries around the world. Participating
in this project, volunteers will stay in a local family where it has special features of each
region in Northern Vietnam. Staying in a family, volunteers will experience the customs,
lifestyles of the family, and culture of the countryside that volunteer participating. The
program takes place during the year, depending on the characteristics of each place you
can choose the suitable time and your purpose for discovery when you arrive at Vietnam.
For more in formation of this project, please click
http://vietnamvolunteer.net/homestay-in-the-north-of-vietnam.html
Community Developent Projects Volunteer for organic farm in Vietnam
VVS have many field-based You have a period of time for free and until now you don’t know what you should spend it
positions working with community for. You never try to become a farmer before or you get very interested in organic farm with
groups in low- income urban a lot of vegetables, fruit…You want to try and get experience about that. In VVS programs,
neighborhoods and rural areas. In we are conducting program call “Organic farm for all”. The site of program will be organized
which a hands-on approach to in the variety of field and types of organic farm such as: rice field, coin, potatoes, mix farm
helping families meet basic needs with variety of fruits. For each season and each farm, we will conduct the suitable activities
in areas such as health, housing and working skill for participants in order to get the most benefit result. There are so many
and education is emphasized. It is people out there living on farms and in the countryside working to grow their own food, sell
also an opportunity to become it, develop markets and make their way. Volunteering and living with a family is a wonderful
involved in community activities, way to learn about new cultures without being an intrusive tourist and at the same time you
including helping to establish are giving back something to that place.
women's groups, schools and
small businesses. Volunteers must For more in formation of this project, please click
be outgoing and willing to learn http://vietnamvolunteer.net/volunteer-for-organic-farm-in-vietnam.html
the local language quickly. They
must also have strong
Complete your internship in Vietnam with VVS
interpersonal and organizational
skills. Experience in building You are individuals or groups of undergraduate student who want to conduct the research
trades, sewing, primary health abroad for your final-year dissertations. VVS has designed the internship abroad for these
care, animal husbandry, student groups who want to conduct their study research in Vietnam. We can help you
agriculture or small business prepare a detailed research plan related to your idea or your academic tutor - and we sort
developments are especially out your practical requirements in the field, beforehand. You will have opportunity to work
helpful but an eagerness to help with local organizations, and by this way you will achieve both in volunteer help community
local communities is the only development and complete your dissertaions.
requirement.
For more in formation of this project, please click
http://vietnamvolunteer.net/complete-your-university-dissertation-research-ove
with-vvs.html

4. International Summer Workcamp
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If you want to spend your time in a new palce, meet with many differrent people come from
around the world and give their time to support the community in developing country, let’s
join in our INTERNATIONAL SUMMER WORKCAMP. VVS would love to organize a camp
for all the volunteers all over the world who have the same purpose and wishness. The
purpose of this summer camp will be to call wildlife protection, environmental preservation
for the pure and primitive natural world. Tree planting campaign will be implemented for
afforestation as a response action what nature has bestowed upon our own lives.
For more in formation of this project, please click
http://vietnamvolunteer.net/international-summer-workcamp.html
Agriculture - Forestry - Fishery Camp
VVS workcamps Have you ever experienced as a farmer in a coastal area with a combination of continual
agriculture, forestry and fisheries? VVS has desired an Agriculture - Forestry - Fishery
VVS conducts variety of Camp for the purpose of bringing new experiences of the volunteers through practical
workcamps in all over of Vietnam activities of program to call for protection of natural environment and build sustainable
through the year. Participant join farming practices for people living in the vicinity of the world’s biosphere -Xuan Thuy
in an international short term National Park.
volunteer program is the way to
travel with a purpose in foreign For more in formation of this project, please click
country. It is an interesting and http://vietnamvolunteer.net/agriculture-forestry-fishery-camp.html
meaningful way for participants to
get exiting experience and help
the social community. Working
and living together with other Youth Camp in Coto Island
young people from different
countries provides a wonderful You plan travel to Vietnam and join in the wonderful, attractive, full of exiting and
chance to make many new unforgettable travelling programs. Youth camp in Coto Island will be a great choice for you.
friends, learn about foreign places VVS’s Youth workcamp always is attracted by hundreds of youths all over the worlds with in
a variety of exciting activities such as sport competing games, teamwork games, culture
and culture, gain new skills and
experience. Your time, energy, exchange, natural adventure, camping, volunteer for farm and natural conservation and
many other exciting activities are waiting for you in the most beautifulIsland of Vietnam.
and enthusiasm can make a
difference in areas where help is
really needed. For more in formation of this project, please click
http://vietnamvolunteer.net/youth-camp-in-coto-island.html
Preserve natural resources & help community in Sapa
Would you like to travel to a country and experience its cultures and purity nature more
deeply than you would on a normal vacation? “Preserve natural resource and help
communities in Sapa” workcamp will be the best placement for you. This unique program is
an opportunity for volunteers to share experiences with a local community development
group. The program brings participants a meaningful education program combined with
ecological tourism, helping to improve the living standard of the local ethnic minority groups
and developing unique cultural exchange.
For more in formation of this project, please click
http://vietnamvolunteer.net/preserve-natural-resources-help-community-in-sap

5. How to apply VVS
To join a project overseas you need to choose one from our latest project list or our website, http://vietnamvolunteer.net/ .
The website will contain the most up-to-date information about project availability, but if you would like to receive a paper
copy please contact us. When you have chosen which projects you are interested in, send us the in formation by fill in an
application form (available on our website), accompanied by the appropriate fee and we will start the placement process.
Step 1- Choose a project from our latest project list on our website.
Step 2- Contact us by fill information as requirement on our website http://vietnamvolunteer.net/
Step 3- When we receive your inquiries and application, we will notify you immediately. The appication process will be finished as
soon as we get full information from you. We will send you a notify of preliminary acceptance and a pre-departure booklet within 1-3
weeks.
Step 4 - When you receive your project from VVS, you should begin preparing for travel by obtaining all necessary documents
(passport,visa) and meeting immunization requirements.
Step 5- Make your travel arrangements and other practical arrangements.
Step 6- Go and enjoy your project.
VINA VOLUNTEER SERVICE
Contact us
For all enquiries please contact our office by telephone at this address:
Head Office: Vina Volunteer Service
Address: No. 158 Hoa Bang Street - Yen Hoa Ward - Cau Giay District - Ha Noi.
Tel : +844 668 04 008
Fax : +844 668 04 009.
Email: info@vietnamvolunteer.net
Hotline 24/7: +84 974 313 104 - Mr. David Nguyen