Community leaving at Klong Dan (0970MLTV)

Nakorn Sritammarat Province
Possible to participate all year through
(volunteer stay at least 2 month, max. 5 volunteers)

Klong Dan stands for “A Border-line Canal”. It is a small, compact Buddhist community situated on the boundary of Nakorn Sritammarat and Songkhla provinces and separated by an ancient waterway which is called Klong Dan. In the past, Klong Dan used to be a significant port and people used this canal as a gateway to travel from place to place. Gold and jewellery shops sprang up when Chinese traders and settlers had moved in. The lifestyle of ancient people flourished at the time, but after the construction of roads into the community, this famous gateway lost its importance and most of the inhabitants left the place.

Nowadays, people still living in Klong Dan have formed a strong community and they aim to revitalize this place and attract more people to live there. The chief monk in this community plays a significant role. He is the most influential person in the community and as such has the ability to encourage the village to follow the life path of Buddha. All Klong Dan monks and villagers have the same attention and goal to set up their community into a Paths-to-Buddhism Community by the concepts for which people can help each other, lead lives with self-sufficiency and mean no racial and religious prejudices.

Klong Dan community is expecting that DaLaa volunteers can help to make their place more attractive, develop more links with young people around the area, and invite them to be a part of the community.

Main activity: volunteers will give non-formal English classes to the local public primary/secondary schools in the community. Ages of students are from 3-15 years old respectively.

Others activities: learning Buddhist paths (do meditation, for example), joining in community groups (they have other ways to make a living apart from their careers-farmers and temporary workers. They form their own groups of craftsmen and skilled people making clay work/cement sculpture, cooking typically native food, teaching Nora traditionally southern dance to interested people, processing seafood, manipulating decorative bushes/trees, providing home-stay and making sweetened deserts.

Aims of the project:

• To improve and enhance children’s English language ability
• To support schools
• To build good relationship between volunteers and local people
• To be part of Klong Dan community
• To let children be familiar with volunteers and learn in international/multi-cultural atmosphere

Accommodation:You will stay in in a resident house the community uses to accommodate visitors, dormitory style with the other volunteers.

Fee: depends on length of staying

Location:Klong Dan, Nakorn Sritammarat province, south of Thailand

Interested?

If you want to apply for this project, please contact a
sending organization in your country. If you don’t know which organization this is, send us an email and we’ll give you the information.