Why Volunteer Overseas with Openmind Projects?

Read about local people helping local people with the support of overseas volunteers, IT and Openmind Projects.

Innovative Learning and Volunteering Ideas with Openmind Projects abroad.
 

Local grassroots volunteer overseas placements

Gap Year Volunteer Placements Overseas: choose among many volunteer overseas opportunities for a gap year/gap month students. 

Career Break Placements Overseas: choose among many sabbatical volunteer work abroad opportunities for a career break overseas.
 

Retiree as a Volunteer Overseas: choose among many volunteer overseas opportunities for retired volunteers who want to share their experience with the less privileged. 

Teach English as a Volunteer in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia or Nepal: choose among many volunteer overseas opportunities to teach English.
 

Teach IT and Computer Skllls Overseas: bridge the digital divide between rich and poor.

Sustainable Eco Tourism, Community Development and Conservation: volunteer placements in our eco tourism, community development and  conservation projects in Thailand, Laos and Nepal. 

Child and Health Care Volunteer Placements: volunteer overseas opportunities in Thailand, Cambodia and Nepal.
 

Discover yourself and learn for life while you volunteer overseas

Volunteering abroad offers a fast track to personal development through work with local people in Cambodia, Thailand, Laos or Nepal.  Discover another culture, test your limits, connect with people abroad, build lifelong friendships!
 

Volunteer abroad in several projects, several countries

You can choose several volunteer placements on your gap year, career break or holiday as a volunteer overseas.  Choose among over 60 projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal, amazing aid and volunteer abroad development opportunities!

Apply Here and we'll recommend a volunteer placement for you in the country of your choice.

Volunteer overseas trekking and diving

Learn for nature and future!  We reach out to community based Eco Tourism and Wildlife Conservation projects.  We are proud to be able to send volunteers to assist local community-based initiatives to save nature and wildlife that benefit local communities!

 Qualified volunteers can go Scuba Diving in Thailand to help survey and clean coral reefs and sea beds.

Apply to do Volunteer Work Abroad and we'll look for the best volunteer placement for you as an eco project volunteer.

Volunteer at our Training Center in Thailand

Work in activity based learning at our Training Center by the Mekong River in Nong Khai, the gateway to Laos.  For our international volunteers and interns verseas as well as for our local trainees from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Burma sponsored by Openmind Projects.

Volunteers from all walks of life

Volunteer with Openmind Projects, in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal.  Our volunteer work abroad projects are open to all ages (if below 18 come with an adult), all nationalities, all levels of experience.  Open-minded volunteers are always welcome!  We often arrange last minute volunteer abroad placements or shorter visits if you have limited time.



Overseas volunteers come as:

 

Students  on a vacation or gap year/gap month who seek international experience

Professionals on a career break or sabbatical abroad

Retirees seeking meaningful volunteer work abroad

Student groups

Families

Apply to Volunteer Overseas and we'll find a volunteer placement that suits your skills and ambitions!
 

Flexible Volunteering Periods

Our overseas volunteers come for flexible periods from two weeks to twelve months or even longer!

Apply to Volunteer and we'll find a suitable volunteer period and date for you.

 

Volunteer Overseas. Volunteer work abroad in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal

Why volunteer with Openmind Projects abroad?

Read about how we started as an initiative to help the children of rice farmers in Isan, the poor region in northeastern Thailand: "Openmind Projects of Southeast Asia: Learning for life, nature and future."  (Horizon Solutions Site, Yale University).



Visit our first website, www.itinisan.org, to read about our early projects.  The site was designed by one of our two founders, the self taught son of a poor Thai rice farming family, Toto. Openmind Projects was recognized by the Stockholm Challenge for our information/communication technology projects.
 

Make Your volunteer dollars count!

Why pay $60-90/€50-75 per day—the rates major European and US volunteer organizations charge—when you can pay $22/€17 per day with Openmind Projects in Thailand for a two month placement?  We offer affordable and value for the money volunteer overseas fees that don't empty your pockets!  And they include three extra days of extremely useful cross cultural volunteer training before you start.  You have two volunteering overseas options: Volunteer With Support or Independent Volunteer.

Our Volunteer with Support option is a bargain!  

Our fee of $22/€17 per day is about 700 Thai baht.  On your own you can get a room in a guesthouse in Thailand for 400-700 baht per day.  As an Openmind volunteer you also get a volunteer placement, meals, other volunteer support, handbooks and volunteer training!

With Openmind Projects your fee goes entirely to fund our local work and projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal!  It doesn't go to salaries, offices, advertising or other administrative costs overseas in the U.S., Europe, Australia, or elsewhere. 

You can save money with our Early Bird Special! Book early and Apply for an affordable volunteer placement.

 

We offer a unique Volunteer Training

Our acclaimed Volunteer and Cross Culture Training in Thailand will help make you a successful volunteer abroad from the very beginning.  Our Volunteer Training is focused on the most important cultural understanding and volunteer work abroad skills!  We also send you an extensive Online Volunteer Overseas Handbook before you even leave home!

Read our Volunteers' Overseas Testimonials.

Read about our Learning and Teaching Philosophy for Volunteers Overseas.

Apply to Volunteer Overseas in Thaland, Laos, Cambodia or Nepal and you can look forward to a very different volunteer training in Thailand, very practical and

activity based cross culture and teaching training.

Innovative teaching as a volunteer overseas

Teach in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Nepal the fun and different way: Learning by Doing! Activity Based learning for all.

 

Some Volunteer Overseas Opportunities with Openmind Projects

Overseas volunteers help us provide free teach English and computer training to schools, villages and national parks. Here are a few of the projects you can choose from.
 

 

Teach novices at a Buddhist temple

Teach children in a small rice farming village

Teach Muslim children on an island on the Andaman Sea

Support community based eco tourism

Teach teens to use IT, computers and the internet

Help to improve local health care and child care
 

Many volunteer work abroad options

When you volunteer with Openmind Projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia or Nepal we can arrange a volunteer placement for you in:

Eco Tourism and Conservation 
 
Child and Health Care 

Teaching English 

Teach IT and Computer Skills


Apply to Volunteer Abroad and we will suggest a volunteer placement overseas in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia or Nepal for you based on your skills and what you want to do.

 

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Volunteer Overseas. Volunteer work abroad in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal