Learn2Give Teaching Project
English Language Club, Faculty of Liberal Arts, NE THAILAND
(June 2006 - March 2007)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION/ BACKGROUND

Founded in 2003, Ubon Ratchathani University's English Language Club is a group of young mind university students who have a passion in learning English and would like to give valuable things back to community.  The idea of the club is to organize English camps for schools in rural area of Ubon Ratchathani and nearby provinces. 

Organizing over ten English camps, we have learned and realized that many students still lack of motivation to learn more English.  And we believe that having students study English with English speaking people around the world would be another great way to help student improve their English and finally they will learn how English is important to them. So, the idea of the Learn2Give project has been released!

Learn2Give is a non-profit teaching project which welcomes volunteers all over the world to teach English at rural school in the Northeastern Thailand.  The project has been carefully designed by our staff who have been working closely with children and international volunteers at previous English camps. 

To help search for potential volunteers across the globe to participate in this project, the English Language Club has been in cooperation with three great cultural exchange websites, Helpx.net, Couchsurfing.net and Hostpitalityclub.org. What we do is contact host schools for Learn2Give volunteers and host school will be willing to provide accommodation and food for volunteers in return.  Before teaching at school, our volunteer will be given an introduction activity run by English Language Club staff for five days.

OBJECTIVES:
Þ To give an opportunity to volunteers from different parts of the world to immense into a real Thai experience – not just a tourist-experience!
Þ To have volunteers learn how to give and share things to people from another cultures
Þ To give rural Thai students a chance to learn English with English speaking people from another country
Þ To inspire students to learn more English at the present time and the future
Þ To broaden students and teachers’ perspective toward intercultural understanding
Þ To have school teachers improved their English communication skill
Þ To have university students as project coordinators learn how to deal with international matters
Þ To create a harmony by giving and sharing to others and to the world!

QUALIFICATIONS (for volunteers):

Þ Good English speaking person
Þ Must be eighteen years old or over
Þ Have a high school education or college degree
Þ Be open-minded, flexible and hard-working
Þ Eager to learn about other culture
Þ Have self-motivation and inspire students to have a good attitude toward studying English
Þ Willing to work and enjoy helping rural children and approachable
Þ Able to live in local community

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Tentative):

Þ Teach or assist teachers in English classes 3-4 hours a day from
Monday to Friday at primary school/high school
Þ Teach with emphasis on communication skill
Þ Create fun and practical method games and songs
Þ Help our club run English camps on some weekends

*** Teaching hours can be flexible.

QUALIFICATION (for schools):
Þ Primary school or highschool in Ubon Ratchathani and nearby
Þ Be able to provide accommodation and food for volunteers
Þ Have one or two teacher coordinators who can communicate in English
Þ Teachers at school must have intercultural understanding

CONDITIONS

Since we are a non-profit organization run by a group of university student, a volunteer must be responsible for his/her own travel expenses, visa arrangement  and travel insurance.  We help contact host schools and run activities regarding to  the project only.

PROJECT DESIGNER
Jaruwan Supolrai,
A year 5 English and Communication student
PROJECT COORDINATORS
Kanittha Troudmakka
A year 5 Tourism student
Nittaya Saenbut
A year 3 English and Communication student
PROJECT ADVISOR
Assist. Prof. Dr. Apisak Pupipat
A teacher at Faculty of Liberal Arts, Ubon Ratchathani University
For more information, please contact
Learn2Give Project, English Language Club,
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Ubon Ratchathani University,
A. Warinchamrap, Ubon Ratchathani 34190 NE Thailand
Tel. (+66) 0 1072 2714  Email to nettingishere@yahoo.com