***Please
note***- There are risks involved in "do it yourself
volunteering" where by you apply to volunteer direct
and miss out a sending company. Please research a company
thoroughly prior to applying and get feedback from past
volunteer participants.
One
Placement
Organisation -
ROKPA
- Teach English
Information
Rokpa
is a worldwide charity founded in 1980 by Dr. Akong Tulku
Rinpoche, a Tibetan doctor and teacher, with Lea Wyler and
her father Veit Wyler from Switzerland. The word Rokpa means
to help or to serve in Tibetan.
Rokpa
needs English teachers in the town of Jyeku (also known
as Yushu) in Qinghai Province, at Yushu Tibetan Medical
College and Primary School.
Yushu
is a Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture close to the provincial
borders of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Sichuan Province.
Jyeku is a small and growing town and administration centre,
12 - 24 hours by bus from Xining, where there is a small
airport. Xining is a 3 hour flight from Beijing and this
is by far the easiest and most direct route.
Latest
Opportunities
There
may be new TEFL placements for 2007 - all in Tibetan Autonomous
Prefectures of China.
Placements
include:
· Volunteer
teaching to orphan children and young people in Qinghai
Province
· Paid
teaching at a middle school in Gansu Province
· Volunteer
teaching at a monk's college in Sichuan Province
Teachers
will be provided with room and board while teaching. However,
it is advisable to budget for extra food to supplement the
diet. Volunteer teachers will be expected to teach on average
18 hours per week, teaching classes ranging in size from
25 to over 50 pupils aged from 5 to 20. This will include
some adult classes and the possibility of teaching English
for Computing. Volunteers may also be required to obtain
and forward information and photographs with regard to the
general running of different Rokpa projects in the area.
Such expenses will be reimbursed.
All
volunteers will: · have completed a course to Teach English
as a Foreign Language and have had some experience
· be prepared to teach at the project for at least six months,
usually from March
· pay their own travel expenses to and from the project.
· preferably have had some experience of living in a third
world country
· usually be over age 25
The
selection of volunteers rests ultimately with Dr. Akong
Tulku Rinpoche, Rokpa's Founding President and main fieldworker
in Tibet. If it is impossible to meet him he will take advice
from one of Rokpa's representatives with whom we can arrange
an interview.
Interested
candidates should send a CV with a brief letter saying why
they are interested, to the volunteer co-ordinator, Diana
Dodd: email: Diana108@btopenworld.com
(A copy should be sent to charity@rokpaUK.org)
Thereafter
potential candidates will be provided with more detailed
information and may be invited for interview.
Contact
E-mail: charity@RokpaUK.org
Address: ROKPA UK Overseas Projects Kagyu Samye Ling,
Eskdalemuir, Langholm, Dumfriesshire DG13 0QL
Telephone: 013873 73232 Ext: 230
Fax: 013873 73223
Browse
all gap
year volunteering and gap year work in Tibet
Featured
Companies
