7 More Days!
A week today, I’ll be on a plane with my two cousins Pamela and Bianca heading to Ho Chi Minh City to start our volunteer adventure for 3 weeks! I’ve been looking forward to this for months!! Everyone has been asking me if I’m excited…but to tell you the truth it hasn’t quite hit me yet. It all seems so surreal. I know once I finally get on the plane and unwind the excitement will build up!
Many people have been asking me what it will be like and if I know anyone who has volunteered in Vietnam. Although I don’t know anyone personally who has gone through the experience, you can click here to see a testimonial video from one of the past volunteers.
This is going to be a life changing experience and I’m excited to share my journey with you!
About This Trip
Back in September, B Wyze presented their employees with a competition for a Social Responsibility Vacation. One employee would be given the opportunity to volunteer in a third world country for up to 3 weeks. I was fortunate enough to be this individual.
I will be volunteering in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for two different programs: an Orphanage for Children with Disabilities and a Shelter for Street Children.
The Orphanage For Children with Disabilities cares for abandoned children with mental or physical disabilities as well as children who are victims of agent orange. The orphanage helps to educate them to the fullest extend of their capabilities, both physical and intellectual. Finally, the orphanage helps them to learn to live independently. There are about 400 children at the orphanage.
Volunteers can talk and play with the children, help the physiotherapists when they do the therapies for the children, feed the children and teach some children to feed themselves and take them on their wheel chairs for a walk in the orphanage’s front garden.
The shelter for street children provides accommodation, education, recreational activities and opportunities for street children and orphaned children so they can get a job when they grow up and go back home to integrate with their own families or build their own live. There are 20 children at this shelter from the age of 6 years old. Volunteers at this project offer valuable support and education to the children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. I will be teaching conversational English to the children and offer support to the children while being a positive role model for the children.
A very special thank you to the CO-CEO’s of B Wyze, John Towsley and Rick Beaudry for giving me this opportunity!
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