Principles and Mision

PRINCIPLES

CVTD is a playground for creative, study, social communication for youth together with the aim of taking shape the global action thoughts in localities in which each individual will be active in developing solutions for society’s demands and changing the reality. This will help them find their potential abilities and enjoy capacities of solving the growing challenges of global, the social economy and the environment. Through real working situations, the youth can discover their potentialities. Moreover, they also have the chance to create and discover by actions to overcome the obstacles in their life. In fact, they need to be provided the opportunities to see the real life, to realize their potential capacities through our programs.

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CVTD’s project which are designed by each topic are very necessary and important for the youth from different countries for the development of the society , community, diversified culture, including the youth, for example climate changing, developing sustainability, immigrant , and the target for millennium development, against the poverty reduction.

Voluntary for the commuinty’s development, education and environment was held in Vietnam with a mission to build global community events through environment service and local community.

MISSION

Create innovative educational services and community eco-tours, mobilize resources of international professionals and volunteers to implement effective educational models, study tours attract numerous participants to bring social benefits.

Voluntary and study tours for the development of community, education and environment are held in Vietnam with a mission to build global community events through community tourism and community education.

Promote investment and international cooperation for social development in big city, the mountainous communities and rural areas, protect the environment, promote the images and Vietnam people.

By expanding collaboration with international volunteering, expert human resource, organizations both within and outside Vietnam in order to establish a greater network of organizations, we will provide greater assistance to those areas in which humanitarian aid is needed.

Support social enterprises in enhancing capacities of international cooperation, resource mobilization, and education framework to developing the youth.

AREA

Hanoi, Lang Son province (Bac Son), Ninh Binh city, Sapa city, Danang city and Ho Chi Minh city

Overview

OVERVIEW

We are CVTD (Center for International Cooperation and Vietnam Talent Development) – a NGO, non – profit volunteer organization based in Hanoi, Vietnam, which was founded since 2012. We operate mainly in the fields of education, community eco-tourism and support of business startup.

CVTD is a member of the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents – Human Resources, with the support from Erasmus Ka2+ by European Union funding.

20150306_cvtd volunteer Mustarhaz Nyíregyhaza 1     Aboutus1_Sepideh 11_2013_01     20141019_cvtd volunteer Phuc Tue

Our goal is to create short and long-term International Voluntary Programs to assist in long lasting community development, education and community eco-tourism; to exchange and explore cultures; broaden experiences and improve skills between Vietnamese volunteers and international volunteers. And, our purpose is linking people all over the World and helping develop human resource for sustainable development of the society.

OUR AIM

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We want to make it as easy as possible for anyone who is considering volunteering internationally to find all the information they need, as well as a good organisation to volunteer with. We are trying to achieve this aim in several ways, including:

(*) We regularly interview past and current volunteers about their experience in order to provide a realistic view of different types of volunteer work available, as well as conditions in various countries, etc.

(*) We try to get in touch with volunteers of every organisation listed on the website and ask them to write a review of the organisation. Therefore, anyone considering being a volunteer with the organisation can get a better idea of what it will be like.

(*) We have a comprehensive database of volunteer organisations around the world and we continually get in touch with new organisations and ask them to provide their details. Our visitors can then browse or search through the database using criteria such as price, country, type of work, etc.

(*) If we come across any links, books or other useful information, we will share them on the site. Our visitors are always encouraged to stay in contact if they’ve found something that they think would be of value to other volunteers.

Internship, internet marketing and coordinate projects at CVTD Hanoi Office

[Code: 2017.08.IC]

Interns at CVTD’s office: Internet Marketing to search volunteers or travels; Connect international NGOs in the same field; Making video; Admin CVTD’s social networking: Facebook, Youtube, G+…; Web developer; Building and coordinate volunteer projects; Community travel and “Vietnam Homestay Network”.

WHY CVTD?

CVTD is associated with over 100 local organizations and company to give university students and recent graduates internships of the highest quality so that they can gain valuable experience in a professional and unique international environment.
Our support services at all our placements are available 24/7 to ensure your internship runs smoothly and that your experiences in Vietnam have you wanting to return.

          

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8 REASONS TO CHOOSE AN INTERNSHIP WITH CVTD:

1. You will gain daily hands-on experience
2. You will gain extensive knowledge of the culture, history, customs, traditions & food of Vietnam
3. We have a wide choice of programmes, you can spend your free time in one of our other programmes or simply go and see the rest of the area.
4. Interns will have accommodation & delicious traditional Vietnamese food for a very low cost.
5. Interns will have an ideal opportunity to learn and practice the Vietnamese language
6. Interns will receive academic credit and professional references upon successful completion of the program
7. Our accommodation facilities are on the main bus route to Hanoi and other outlying areas
8. Interns can utilize the knowledge gained as consultants to companies in their home

ACTIVITIES & SHIFTS:

1. Location: CVTD’s office and homestay.

2. Help:

(*) Building and coordinator for volunteer programs
(*) Internet Marketing to find Volunteer for Teaching English, Social Work, Summer Camp and Connect international NGOs in the same field.
(*) Education: Teaching English for youth, student & children from 4-11 year old.
(*) Community development
(*) Cultural exchange

3. Duration: At least 10 weeks

4. Requirements:

(*) Background: Hotel/Hostel/Homestay manager, Responsible-tourism, International Cooperation, Internet Marketing or any related field.
(*) Year of study: Fourth year undergraduate/postgraduate students
(*) Other attributes: Good communication skills, optimistic, sense of humor, interest in internet marketing and social network, interest in working in developing countries…

5. CVTD Fees: Please see at TABLE OF FEES 2017

✅ Internship service includes the following:

– Accommodation: You will be accommodated in CVTD’s volunteer house in Ban Dao Linh Dam new urban, where there is a lake and a green park surrounded, you can take a walk, runing the lakeside road with fresh air every morning. There are many convenience stores, coffee shops, restaurants with traditional Vietnamese cuisine near where you will live.

Volunteer house is nearly the bustop which convinient come to Hanoi Old Quarter, or Nuoc Ngam bus station is 1 km away, you can find many buses to the tourist city.

There’s free wifi connectivity (so bring your laptop or iPad) and free washing machine. There’s place for 4 – 6 volunteers at a time.
+ The house contains a large living room, two bedrooms with two bathrooms, hot water in bathroom, and air conditioner in bedroom (from 10:00PM to 8:00AM in summer), a kitchen and a beautyful courtyard.
+ Volunteers share their rooms with other volunteers, using bunk beds
+ There is full internet connection in the accommodation.
+ The centre is approximately 45 minutes away from Hanoi’s Old Quarter by bus, which only costs 7.000 VND for one way ($0,30).

– Meals: We do not supply meals, but we have full kitchen facilities which you are free to use.

– Airport pick-up at Noi Bai International Airport, Hanoi.
– Various scenic visits with students.

– CVTD’s staff is available 24/7 by Online/Telephone or in person to support and guide you. It is extremely safe in Vietnam and there is really nothing to concern about.

❎ Not included:

– Flight tickets
– Visa application fee in home country
– Insurance of any kind. Participants are required to obtain adequate the Travel insurance, Health insurance, etc.,
– Personal items (toothpaste, towels, shampoo, shower gel, soap…).
– Travel during the program and after the formal program is completed
– Stipend – this is a volunteer project, the volunteer will receive no allowance or stipend

✅ More benefits for volunteer/internship:

– Two (2) days off per week
– One (1) Vietnamese class per week
– Internship who work at least 3 months: One (1) week off for vacation (Total 07 days every 3 month).
– Free 1-2 days in experience trip per month to have information/content/photo about the communiction tour/homestay network, to update website/social network…
– Participant certificate upon successful completion of the volunteer placement and small gift.

Teaching English and travel experience in center of Hanoi

[Code: 2017.12.TC]

CVTD Vietnam have the purpose of developing English as a “Second Language” to communities in major cities. We provide Community English classes – Blended Learning Program to local children (from 4 – 11 year old), youth and adults at beginner and intermediate levels, as well as a drop in conversation group to improving English skills for Vietnamese by mobilizing qualified Native English speakers to help our English class in Hanoi. Volunteers will teach English in kindergarten, community classes in urban areas, schools…

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1. Location:

Center of Hanoi, Vietnam

2. Help:

Teaching English for children from 4 – 11 year old in around of center Hanoi, students and youth in coffee club.

(*) Volunteers will do the following:
– Write/prepare the lesson plans for every week/month including teaching aids (materials), games, and activities…
– Teach the lessons.
– Collaborate with teaching assistant to manage the class.
– Give feedback and recommendation to management regarding students’ performance
– Give feedback and success stories on website about your experience volunteering with us.

3. Duration:

From 02 weeks

4. Requirements:

– Volunteers who are fluent in English and have excellent pronunciation and communication skills with English as a second language
– Volunteer, who have teaching experience or have vast experience in volunteering in the field of education in different countries.
– Prioritize native English speakers.
– Strong inter-personal skills and experience in working with people, especially children and young adults.
– Have a laptop for teaching, slide, video, game,…

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5. CVTD Fees for Teaching English Programs: TABLE OF FEES 2017

✅ Volunteer service includes the following:

– Accommodation: You will be accommodated in CVTD’s volunteer house in Ban Dao Linh Dam new urban, where there is a lake and a green park surrounded, you can take a walk, runing the lakeside road with fresh air every morning. There are many convenience stores, coffee shops, restaurants with traditional Vietnamese cuisine near where you will live.

– Volunteer house is nearly the bustop which convinient come to Hanoi Old Quarter, or Nuoc Ngam bus station is 1 km away, you can find many buses to the tourist city.

There’s free wifi connectivity (so bring your laptop or iPad) and free washing machine. There’s place for 6 – 8 volunteers at a time.
+ The house contains a large living room, two bedrooms with two bathrooms, hot water in bathroom, and air conditioner in bedroom (from 10:00PM to 8:00AM in summer), a kitchen and a beautyful courtyard.
+ Volunteers share their rooms with other volunteers, using bunk beds
+ There is full internet connection in the accommodation.
+ The centre is approximately 45 minutes away from Hanoi’s Old Quarter by bus, which only costs 7.000 VND for one way ($0,30).

– Meals: We do not supply meals, but we have full kitchen facilities which you are free to use.

– Transport from CVTD’s volunteer house to the kindgarten, schools or center by bus or Grap moto.
– Airport pick-up at Noi Bai International Airport, Hanoi.
– Various scenic visits with students.

– CVTD’s staff is available 24/7 by Online/Telephone or in person to support and guide you. It is extremely safe in Vietnam and there is really nothing to concern about.

❎ Not included:

– Flight tickets
– Visa application fee in home country
– Insurance of any kind. Participants are required to obtain adequate the Travel insurance, Health insurance, etc.,
– Personal items (toothpaste, towels, shampoo, shower gel, soap…).
– Travel during the program and after the formal program is completed
– Stipend – this is a volunteer project, the volunteer will receive no allowance or stipend

✅ More benefits for volunteer/internship:

– Two (2) days off per week
– Volunteers who work at least 3 months: One (1) week off for vacation (Total 07 days every 3 month).
– Participant certificate upon successful completion of the volunteer placement and small gift.

Social work, helping disabled and autism children in Hanoi

[Code: 2017.12.PT]

Phuc Tue care center offers care, education, career advice and vocational training for mentally and physically impaired children.

Their mission is to care for, educate, restore mental health, teach, and guide disabled individuals to enable them to find suitable jobs, build self-confidence and become more independent in their everyday lives. As they are absorbed into the community, their burden on their families in particular, and society as a whole, will diminish.

Besides early grade academic lessons, educational programs include physical education and therapy, yoga, painting and poetry.

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1. Location: Center of Hanoi

2. Help:

– Caring for and playing with disabled children.
– Feeding the children during lunch time.
– Initiating campaigns for donations of books, old clothes, old shoes for the children (depends on volunteers).
– Help the center do gardening to provide food for the children.
– Become involved in community and school-based projects.

3. Duration: From 02 weeks

4. Requirements:

– Initiative spirit and like to work with disabled children.
– Creative and active in this particular working environment.
– Having a medical background and/or experience in working with people with disabilities is advantageous. However, volunteers without experience will still be able to join with the guidance of teachers.

5. CVTD Fees: TABLE OF FEES 2017

✅ Volunteer service includes the following:

– Accommodation: You will be accommodated in CVTD’s volunteer house in Ban Dao Linh Dam new urban, where there is a lake and a green park surrounded, you can take a walk, runing the lakeside road with fresh air every morning. There are many convenience stores, coffee shops, restaurants with traditional Vietnamese cuisine near where you will live.
Volunteer house is nearly the bustop which convinient come to Hanoi Old Quarter, or Nuoc Ngam bus station is 1 km away, you can find many buses to the tourist city.

There’s free wifi connectivity (so bring your laptop or iPad) and free washing machine. There’s place for 4 – 6 volunteers at a time.

+ The house contains a large living room, two bedrooms with two bathrooms, hot water in bathroom, and air conditioner in bedroom, a kitchen and a beautyful courtyard.
+ Volunteers share their rooms with other volunteers, using bunk beds
+ There is full internet connection in the accommodation.
+ The centre is approximately 45 minutes away from Hanoi’s Old Quarter by bus, which only costs 7.000 VND for one way ($0,30).

– Meals: We do not supply meals, but we have full kitchen facilities which you are free to use. No lunch, when you go to Phuc Tue Center.

– Transport from CVTD’s volunteer house to the center by bus.
– Airport pick-up at Noi Bai International Airport, Hanoi.
– Various scenic visits with students.

– CVTD’s staff is available 24/7 by Online/Telephone or in person to support and guide you. It is extremely safe in Vietnam and there is really nothing to concern about.

❎ Not included:

– Flight tickets
– Visa application fee in home country
– Insurance of any kind. Participants are required to obtain adequate the Travel insurance, Health insurance, etc.,
– Personal items (toothpaste, towels, shampoo, shower gel, soap…).
– Travel during the program and after the formal program is completed
– Stipend – this is a volunteer project, the volunteer will receive no allowance or stipend

✅ More benefits for volunteer/internship:

– Two (2) days off per week
– Volunteers who work at least 3 months: One (1) week off for vacation (Total 07 days every 3 month).
– Participant certificate upon successful completion of the volunteer placement and small gift.

 

About Us

OVERVIEW

We are CVTD (Center for International Cooperation and Vietnam Talent Development) – a NGO, non – profit volunteer organization based in Hanoi, Vietnam, which was founded since 2012. We operate mainly in the fields of education, community eco-tourism and support of business startup.

CVTD is a member of the Vietnam Scientific Association for Development of Talents – Human Resources, with the support from Erasmus Ka2+ by European Union funding.

20150306_cvtd volunteer Mustarhaz Nyíregyhaza 1     Aboutus1_Sepideh 11_2013_01     20141019_cvtd volunteer Phuc Tue

Our goal is to create short and long-term International Voluntary Programs to assist in long lasting community development, education and community eco-tourism; to exchange and explore cultures; broaden experiences and improve skills between Vietnamese volunteers and international volunteers. And, our purpose is linking people all over the World and helping develop human resource for sustainable development of the society.

OUR AIM

cvtd volunteer DSC_1079     20131207_cvtd volunteer Lang Son     cvtd volunteer in vietnam

We want to make it as easy as possible for anyone who is considering volunteering internationally to find all the information they need, as well as a good organisation to volunteer with. We are trying to achieve this aim in several ways, including:

(*) We regularly interview past and current volunteers about their experience in order to provide a realistic view of different types of volunteer work available, as well as conditions in various countries, etc.

(*) We try to get in touch with volunteers of every organisation listed on the website and ask them to write a review of the organisation. Therefore, anyone considering being a volunteer with the organisation can get a better idea of what it will be like.

(*) We have a comprehensive database of volunteer organisations around the world and we continually get in touch with new organisations and ask them to provide their details. Our visitors can then browse or search through the database using criteria such as price, country, type of work, etc.

(*) If we come across any links, books or other useful information, we will share them on the site. Our visitors are always encouraged to stay in contact if they’ve found something that they think would be of value to other volunteers.

Teaching English experience

Whoops and cheers greeted us as we walked into the high school classroom. The wall of sound could have easily been for a rock star or the latest boy band. But it wasn’t – it was for us.To the students we were complete strangers from the West there to teach English. That, though, didn’t seem to matter in the slightest judging by the volume. Once the noise finally abated it was straight into the ice-breaking introduction. They say it is always good to start with a joke, so that is what I did. On the blackboard I wrote, ‘My name is Tom, not tôm.’

I am over six-foot tall (183cm). The Vietnamese word ‘Tôm’ means shrimp, so that line was guaranteed to raise a laugh. The hidden irony is that I am allergic to shrimp. The next move was to write-up on the board three statements about myself. Two were false and one was true. It was then up to the class to ask me questions and ascertain which of the statements was true. I won that game. Nobody believed I had two grown up daughters or that I had celebrated my 50th birthday. The most flattering estimate of my age was 25. Clearly, no one here has much practice with ageing Westerners.

After that it was onto the describing game where students took it in turns to pick out a slip of paper. On each slip was the name of an everyday object that the student had to describe to the class without saying the word or miming. That was fun and the class got quickly engaged in that activity and developing their speaking skills.

Lesson over it was time to pose for what seemed like dozens of photographs with students whom I towered over. Several of these pictures, I am quite sure, turned up on Facebook captioned, ‘This is me with a giant, sweaty Scotsman.’ I had a total blast. I was buzzing afterwards at what is probably the closest I will ever get to feeling like a celebrity!

It’s not all work and no play at CVTD Vietnam. Time off is more than ample to go exploring the local area or travelling together to places of interest. While I was with CVTD Vietnam (late 2014) we visited a pagoda as a group and had a chilled out time in the ornate gardens. As soon as you cross through the gateway there is an aura of peace and calm. It is like stepping from everyday reality into another gentler realm where the mundane concerns of life are banished and there’s a deep sense of tranquility.

After teaching English from kindergarten to teens and factory workers, it was refreshing to have some down time with my fellow volunteers to simply clear our heads and relax. Feeding the fish and watching butterflies dance from flower to flower became our focus. Sauntering through the gardens revealed a new haven of blissful retreat at every turn. Indeed, the whole experience was intensely uplifting and quite spiritual.

I struck up a friendship with one of the Buddhist monks. He is indisputably the calmest, wisest person I have ever met. He exuded a serenity and
imperturbability you rarely, if ever, encounter in today’s full throttle,  high pressure consumerist era of modern living. There was much to learn from him. I suspect I may now be on a personal quest for inner peace. Even if it is only a fraction of the calmness I witnessed within that monk, I will, I am sure, have grown into a better person thanks to him and the opportunities afforded to me by the CVTD Vietnam.

Thomas Edgar