| Orphanage | Community Build Project | Health Clinic |
| Rehabilitation Centre | VFV Community Centre |
| Street Children | Teach English | Nutrition Office |
| Teach Children with Disabilities |
| Womens Empowerment | Volunteer With Home For Girls |

Volunteer in an Orphanage

Volunteer with the VFV Community Building Project

Project Facts

Minimum Duration: 2 weeks
Requirements: Age 18+
Location: Tacloban City
Placement Availability: March - September
Minimum Working Hours: 08:00 - 12 noon (Monday-Friday)
Activities: Build, renovate and/or repair homes, schools and community centres for impoverished communities throughout Tacloban and neighbouring communities.

Project Overview

Leaking roofs, crumbling walls and dirt floors are too common a sight at the houses of many impoverished families here in the Philippines. As a result we here at VFV have created our own Community Build Project where we seek out the needs of local communities and help build and renovate different structures.

Our projects include, but are not limited to houses, schools and community centres.

Volunteers will work worth with trained carpenters and local helpers, be provided with onsite safety orientations and instruction and begin either building from scratch or providing much needed repairs to heavily dammaged buildings.

Project size will vary depending on the number of volunteers currently onsite and discounts for this project will be offered for groups up to 4 people. This is a new project for VFV and offers 100% volunteer satisfaction and a much rewarding experience.

 

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Volunteer at the VFV Community Centre

Project Facts

Minimum Duration: 2 weeks
Requirements: Age 18+
Location: Tacloban City
Placement Availability: All Year Round
Minimum Working Hours: 08:00-12 noon (Monday-Friday)
Activities: Multi-faceted volunteer experience, assist playtime session, work with youth groups and mothers groups, assist with office admin, help support child sponsorship program by teaching after school tutorials, assist with community centre projects and outreach projects such as dumpsite feedings.

Project Overview

This is a multi-faceted volunteer experience offering different daily challenges and objectives. There is no better way to get directly involved with VFV projects than by volunteering at its community centre located in the government housing project known as Bliss in Tacloban City.

The community centre handles dozens of community based programs such as morning playtime sessions with daycare children, to daily feedings and after school tutorials of the many children on our international child sponsorship program. Volunteers may also get involved with our mothers club, not to mention our junior boys and girls clubs.

This placement additionally facilitates the opportunity for volunteers to get directly involved in our out-reach programs, including our dumpsite project and minor renovations and repairs to our local community.

No formal training or qualification is required for this program, however volunteers must be able to provide energy, work without supervision, be highly motivated, show initiative and be able to work closely with people who's culture is not of their own.

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Volunteer to Teach English

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Project Overview

The children in the Philippines begin learning English in grade one, so it's not a surprise that most of the population can speak and understand English. The benefits of learning English from a native speaker are inspiring for the young children.

We place volunteers in rural elementary schools between twenty and forty minutes outside of Tacloban City to assist the local teachers with their English classes and other subjects. These volunteers are able to experience living in rural villages and will observe the true meaning of "community."

Teaching English experience or TEFL Certification is preferred but not mandatory. Volunteers must bring energy, enthusiasm and motivation to succeed in this placement.

In addition to teaching English, volunteers may also be expected to teach basic lessons in other subjects such as Maths and Science.

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Volunteer with the City Nutrition Office

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  Volunteer with a Womens Empowerment Centre

Project Facts

Minimum Duration: 2 weeks
Requirements: Age 18+, female volunteers only
Location: Palo
Project Availability: All Year
Activities: Help create and assist livelihood projects, teach informal education, organize team building activities, offer emotional support, assist social workers with pending cases, raise awareness of domestic abuse

Project Overview

Regional Haven is a centre of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) that helps empower women who are the victims of domestic abuse. Regional Haven is a residential centre with all of the women living onsite for their own protection and monitoring.

Volunteer For The Visayans works with this branch of the DSWD to help provide female international volunteers who can help assist Regional Haven in its many daily chores. Volunteers can be used to organize and run livelihood programs for the women, offer informal education, teach new skills, offer emotional support and run recreational activities.

Volunteers will form close bonds with the women and can work side by side with existing house parents and social workers on their cases. Individuals with experience in psychology and counselling are highly advantageous to this project given some of the traumatic experience women have experienced.

No formal qualifications or training is required however volunteers must be compassionate, caring, energetic and highly motivated.

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Volunteer at a Rehabilitation Centre

Project Facts

Minimum Duration: 2 weeks
Requriements: Age 18+, male volunteers only
Location: Tanauan
Placement Availability: All Year Round
Minimum Working Hours: 08:00 - 12 noon (Monday-Friday)
Activities: Act as role models for troubled youths, organize informal educational and recreation activites, teach skills, assist livelihood program.

Project Overview

In many cases, the poverty experienced by communities here in the Philippines often leads to an increased crime rate, especially amongst young boys who turn to crime as a means of obtaining money.

We work in partnership with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and assign male volunteers to assist social workers and house parents at a Regional Rehabilitation Centre For Youth. This centre houses up to fifty boys who have committed crimes as minors and are either waiting for their trial to pend or to be rehabilitated. At this centre the boys are taught the values of honesty and sincerity as a means of improving thier attitudes.

Male volunteers are especially needed to form close bonds with the boys, to teach them new skills, assist and create livelihood programs, organize informal education and recreational activities and assist house parents and social workers with daily duties. Volunteers who can teach sport, play a musical instrument or dance are usually some of the most valuable.

Volunteers require no formal training or qualification, but must be able to show initiative, provide energy and enthusiasm whilst also being able to work independently without supervision.

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Volunteer with the Street Children

Project Facts

Minimum Duration: 1 month
Requirements: Age 20+
Location(s): Tacloban City, Ormoc City
Placement Availability: All Year Round
Minimum Working Hours: 08:00-12 noon (Monday-Friday)
Activities: Perform bonds with street children, help with informal education and organize recreational activities, attempt to improve attitudes of street children.

Project Overview

It is too much of a common sight to see children roaming the streets in search of money or food here in the Philippines.

As a result VFV works in partnership with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to provide international volunteers that can help at centres in Tacloban and Ormoc City that help care for street children.

Most children who have settled on the streets have families of their own but turn to the streets in search of food. Glue sniffing, known as "rugby" in Tacloban, is a common addiction amongst the street children who turn to this drug to suppress their hunger pains. Volunteers can assist the Social Welfare Office in helping to give the simple things these children lack in life, such as compassion, trust, love, and food.

No formal training or qualifications are required for this program, however due to a matter of commitment, the DSWD request that volunteers wishing to work on this project must have a minimum age of 20 years old and a minimum stay of 1 month on the Ormoc project and 2 months on the Tacloban Project.


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Volunteer in a Community Health Clinic

Project Facts

Minimum Duration: 2 weeks
Requirements: Age 18+, must have medical experience.
Location(s): Palo, Tanauan, Tolosa, Dulag, Babatngon, Basey, Alangalang, Sta Fe, Pastrana, Tunga, Jaro
Placement Availiablity: All Year Round
Activities:(Dependent on experience and confidence) Shadow doctors, nurses and/or midwifes, record patient medical history, take vitals, assist in barangay health visits, assist minor surgeries, help perform diagnostics.

Project Overview

Volunteer for the Visayans places volunteers in community medical facilities in rural communities outside the city of Tacloban. These volunteers can shadow and observe the medical practices in the Philippines. Premed students, doctors, nurses, or volunteers with experience working in the health industry, are all needed to assist with the daily activities in Rural Health Units (RHU). The only free facility for the indigent people in these rural communities has just one doctor to serve the entire community from the multiple barangays so the assistance of medical volunteers is greatly needed. Volunteers will assist the doctor and get hands-on practice working and interacting with the patients. In addition, they will learn about the health care conditions here in the Philippines. Some days will be spent in the health center and other days the volunteer will treat patients in the surrounding barangays. Volunteers must currently be studying or have finished studying in the health industry.



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Volunteer to help Teach Children With Physical, Mental and Developmental Disabilities.

Project Facts

Minimum Duration: 2 weeks
Requirements: Age 18+, must have experience in dealing with individuals with physical, mental and developmental disabilities.
Location: Tacloban City
Placement Availability: During Term Time (Summer Holidays = end of March to end of May, Christmas Holidays = 2 weeks before Christmas till 1 week after new year, enquire for more details)
Minimum Working Hours: 08:00-12 noon (Monday to Friday)
Activities: Help mentor and assist teachers to teach students with varying degrees of physical, mental and developmental disabilities.

Project Overview

Students with physical, mental or developmental disabilities can often find it frustrating when trying to learn inside a standard educational environment, as a result, special opportunities for such individuals have been created in the Tacloban City Downtown area.

Volunteer for the Visayans works closely with Leyte National High School and Santo Nino Special Education (SPED) centre to help provide volunteers with experience in assisting with physically, mentally or developmentally impaired individuals.

The role of the volunteer is to help mentor the children and assist teachers in conducting their classes. Volunteers with experience in sign language are highly sort for since they can help teachers translate lessons into sign language for deaf or mute students. Volunteers may also act as mentors for students, helping them to come terms with their disabilities and explaining to them that there disabilities do not limit them to what they can achieve.

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 Volunteer at a Home For Girls

Project Facts

Minimum Duration: 2 weeks
Requirements: Age 18+, female volunteers only
Location: Palo, Ormoc City
Project Availability: All Year
Activities: Offer emotional support to residents, teach informal education, organize recreational activities, supervise and create livelihood projects, assist house parents and social workers.

Project Overview

Home For Girls is a residential centre ran through the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) that cares for and helps empower female youths. These girls may have originated in government orphanages or have been the victims of sexual or domestic abuse and are being sheltered as the centre until such time that they can be safely be returned to their communities.

Volunteer for the Visayans offers international volunteers to both the Home For Girls in Palo and the Home For Girls at the Lingap Centre in Ormoc City to help empower and provide support to the numerous young female residents who live at the centre.

Volunteers will be able to assist house parents and social workers on a daily basis. The activites that volunteers can run may include, but are not limited to teaching the residents in a non formal education setting, assisting in livelihood programs to provide financial income for redsidents, offer emotional support to the residents and create recreational activities. The centre has its own staff, but due to workloads and staff limits, the girls do not always receive the necessary attention that they should get, therefore volunteers are extremely useful to bridge this gap.

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| Orphanage | Community Build Project | Health Clinic |
| Rehabilitation Centre | VFV Community Centre | Street Children |
| Teach English | Nutrition Office | Teach Children with Disabilities |
| Womens Empowerment | Volunteer With Home For Girls |