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Australian volunteers in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal

Genuine and low cost volunteering opportunities with Openmind Projects overseas

Australian volunteers play a vital role in the fight against poverty and inequality. Volunteering overseas is one way that Australian and other overseas volunteers can make a positive contribution toward poverty reduction, sustainable community development, conservation of the environment, and cross cultural understanding.

TOUCH YOUR DREAMS!

Make a contribution overseas to the underprivileged as an Australian volunteer. You contribute to your own personal development at the same time! Build people-to-people links between you and the people you help together with Openmind Projects overseas in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal.

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Why Australians volunteer overseas with Openmind Projects

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Openmind Projects overseas volunteer program was launched in 2001; read about our Mission and Background. Originally called IT in Isan, www.ITinIsan.org, it was a pilot project to help poor children in rural Thailand into the IT and internet age. Our long experience means we know well the southeast Asian countries and grassroots projects we support!

The aim of Openmind Projects is to make a contribution to a better future for underprivileged people overseas in Asia, in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal. Our program encourages Australian volunteering initiatives and efforts in local grassroots projects overseas and also includes our acclaimed cross cultural training in Thailand.

Volunteer overseas in genuine grassroots projects

Australian and other volunteers are normally placed with host families or at national parks or our hubs in north and south Thailand. Volunteers work with colleagues in the local projects throughout their assignment and contribute to building capacity for a better future and conserved nature. Read accounts of volunteers' experiences.

Gap Year Opportunities for Australian Volunteers: choose between many volunteer overseas opportunities for a gap year/gap month as a student to gain valuable international experience.

Career Break/Sabbatical: choose among our many sabbatical volunteer work abroad opportunities to share your skills and experience.

Retired Australians Volunteer Overseas: choose among many opportunities for retired volunteers who want to share their experience with the less privileged overseas.

Teaching English in Thailand or Laos, Cambodia and Nepal: choose among over 60 volunteer overseas opportunities to teach English.

Teach IT and Computer Skllls Overseas: choose where you can help bridge the digital divide between rich and poor.

Responsible Eco Tourism and Conservation: choose among our many eco tourism and wildlife conservation volunteer overseas opportunities in Thailand, Laos and Nepal.

Child and Health Care: choose an opportunity to contribute to the well being of children and patients in Thailand, Cambodia and Nepal.

Discover yourself and learn for life as a volunteer overseas

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

Choose your volunteer work abroad placement in one of over 60 grassroots projects. Volunteer in several projects or countries

Openmind Projects provides management and support to Australian and other overseas volunteers as well as assistance in achieving their assignment objectives. Our volunteer overseas projects offer amazing opportunities to work in locally based aid and development projects.

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 to help them achieve their own objectives. We are proud to be able to send volunteers to assist local community-based initiatives to save nature and wildlife.

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

Apply Here and we'll look for the best conservation volunteer placement for you!

Volunteer at our Training Center in Thailand

Help with activity based learning at our Training Center by the Mekong River in Nong Khai, Thailand, the gateway to Laos. We have volunteers and interns from overseas as well as local trainees we sponsor from Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Burma to come to learn at our Center.

Australian 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 a shorter visit if you have limited time.

Our overseas volunteers are:

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 Here and ask us for more volunteer options that may suit you!

Volunteering overseas. Australian volunteers in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal.
Aussie volunteer overseas. Australian volunteers in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Nepal

Becoming a volunteer with Openmind Projects

Many Australians have the skills, experience and motivation necessary to teach basic English, IT and computer skills, and conservation concepts to help reduce poverty and achieve sustainable community and eco tourism development. Make an impact at the grassroots level in the projects we support!

The focus today of Openmind Projects and our overseas volunteers is:

Spend your volunteer overseas money wisely

Openmind Projects offers affordable and value for money volunteering work abroad. Why pay AU$60-90 per day—the rates many overseas travel and volunteer organizations charge—when you can pay only AU$21 per day with Openmind Projects based in Thailand for a two month period?

Our Volunteer with Support option is a real bargain!

Our fee of AU$21 is about 680 Thai baht. On your own a room in a guesthouse in Thailand would cost you 400-700 baht per day and wouldn't include a volunteer placement/project, meals, volunteer support, handbooks or training!

With us your entire fee goes towards supporting our grassroots projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal as well as our overseas volunteers, not to any administration, office, promotion or other costs elsewhere.

Save money with our Early Bird Special if you book at least two months in advance!

Apply Here for affordable volunteering overseas!

Flexible Volunteering Periods

Our overseas volunteers come for flexible periods from two weeks to twelve months or even longer! Longer periods enable you to volunteer in more than one project.

Apply Now and we'll find a suitable volunteer period and date for you!

Our Unique Volunteer Training

Come for our acclaimed Volunteer and Cross Culture Training in Thailand! It will help make you a successful volunteer abroad. 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 travel to volunteer.

Read our Volunteers' Overseas Testimonials and our Learning and Teaching Philosophy for Volunteers Overseas.

Apply Here and you can look forward to a very different volunteer training in Thailand, very practical and activity based 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! Students have more fun, are more motivated and learn more!

Some volunteer overseas opportunities with Openmind Projects for Australian volunteers

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 in the Water Buffalo Mountains in Laos

Teach teens to use IT, computers and the internet

Help to i mprove local health care on the banks of the Mekong River in Thailand

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

Teaching IT and Computer Skills

Apply Here and we'll suggest a volunteer placement overseas in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia or Nepal for you based on your skills and what you want to do!