The Global Volunteer Network currently has volunteer opportunities available through our partner organization in Vietnam. In the Vietnam Orphanage program, volunteers have the chance to teach English, arts, crafts and sports in orphanages. Volunteers in this program will also teach English to members of the wider community and help care for baby orphans and disabled children. The Vietnam University program enables volunteers to teach English at two universities and a language centre. The programs are centred around Da Nang (Danang), a beautiful coastal city, and in other areas in central Vietnam.

Da Nang is Vietnam's fourth largest city, located on the banks of the Han river. It is an hour’s flight from Vietnam’s major international airports: Ho Chi Minh (in the south) and Hanoi (in the north). Famous landmarks in Da Nang include China Beach, the Marble Mountains and the museum of Cham Sculpture. In the orphanage program, volunteers also work in the coastal towns of Hoi An, Tam Ky, Quang Ngai, Hue and on Cu Lao Cham Island.

Please visit the GVN site for more information about the program.

1-Sep-2008: Donna Morgan - Goodbye Vietnam

I’m sitting here in Hoi An for my last couple of hours in Vietnam and thinking about how I’ll miss this place. I’ve been a tourist for the last 5 days (and not really liking that at all) and so I keep thinking about Tuy Hoa. I had a great time in Tuy Hoa. I had a class of High School kids who took me everywhere; to restaurants, to their fishing villages, to the paddy fields, to street food stal...

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