Community project Where There Is No Doctor Organization

This project is open to all who are interested in all these projects and like to get involved as a whole. Since the community project includes medical, sanitation, water supply, teaching, education, livestock and whatever the village needs, you will be able to get involved in two or three of these projects depending on the funds and duration of your stay as a volunteer. It is mostly like you will cover all these projects if you stay two weeks or longer. Of course it also very much depends on the funds you raise for the projects. You will need to raise funds for multiple projects that you like to get involved before you come to volunteer. All projects are equally important.

To set up a bamboo hut clinic in a village it cost around 150-200 US$ for medical supplies depending on the numbers of patients we see in the village. Our typical day usually begins at about 8 am after breakfast. We set up a clinic in a bamboo hut and see all the sick villagers who come. Depending on the numbers of patients our clinic last for half day or a day. And then we start working on building a toilet or fishery that takes for four days or teaching in a school for a few days, or working on water supply.

In fact all these projects mainly depend on the funds and duration of your stay with us. We usually work for all day long with an hour lunch break in between until 6 pm. We have a day break once a week or every ten days in fact it is whenever we run out of supplies. We come down to town to get more supplies with a day break.

It costs 200 US$ to build a toilet for a family. Building supplies include cement, sands, concrete blocks and small stones. We purchase all these supplies in town and then deliver them to the site in the village. It takes around 4 days to finish a toilet for a family.

Water supply for a village cost about 500-3000 US$ depending on the distance from the water source, spring or water fall, up in the hills and the village to where the water is piped down. It can be between 2-6 kilometers apart. The blue pipe is used and it is 4 meter long. For instance to cover one kilometer distance 250 those blue pipes are connected and used. Begins with 3 inches wide pipe and then connect it to 2 inches and 1 inch.

We have to pipe down water from the hills moving up and down until it reaches the village where we build a big water tanks to store water and then split it from the tanks to different families in the village with much smaller pipes.

Volunteers will be able to teach in schools near by the villages. Teaching even for a short while can make a big difference to the less fortunate hill tribe kids. Teaching and learning materials like books, pencils, pen and a few other stationary should be funded by the volunteer. It is about 100 US$.You can teach English, Maths, Computers and art. You will be teaching in a primary school and will be teaching 3-5 hours a day.

Most hill-tribe families don't even make 20 $ a month and mainly depend on yearly rice product. It is a big struggle especially for a family that has 3 or 4 children. Education is something the family can not imagine. But livestock is something that will draw the family closer to education. Livestock of any kind can turn to cash for the family. A pair of buffalo, cow or pig is good for a family and a fishery is good for a village. It is about 150 to 300 US$ to buy a family or a village a kind of livestock that will continue to produce cash for years and years.

Lodging ( home-stay ) is simple in a bamboo hut with a host family in a village. Volunteers will be split into a group of 2 - 4 to a host family.

Sleeping on a mat on the bamboo floor is a simple living with a host family.
Typical hill-tribe foods contain of rice, chicken, pork, fish, meat, eggs and vegetables are prepared in a hill-tribe way and served by the host family two or three times a day.

Vegetarian foods are also prepared and served by the host family if require

200 US$ per volunteer for one week ( lodging, food and drinking water )
400 US$ per volunteer for two weeks( lodging, food and drinking water )
600 US$ per volunteer for three weeks( lodging, food and drinking water)
800 US$ per volunteer for four weeks ( lodging, food and drinking water)

This "Volunteer for free" program is for individual, a couple or a group who wants to collect donations from the people, families and relatives for the poor and less fortunate hill-tribes here before coming to volunteer. The program goes like this: If you can collect donations or raise funds three time more than your weekly expense ( weekly cost of food and lodging ) you shall volunteer for free. But if you raise only two times, your weekly expense will cut down to half. Check it out below.

Weekly expense             Donations collected by volunteer

   200 US$           600 US$     ( 3 times ) -   volunteer for free ( food and lodging is free )
                     400 US$     ( 2 times ) -   pay half ( pay half for food and lodging )

   400 US$           1200 US$    ( 3 times ) -   volunteer for free ( food and lodging is free )
                      800 US$    ( 2 times ) -   pay half ( pay half for food and lodging )


   600 US$           1800 US$    ( 3 times ) -   volunteer for free ( food and lodging is free )
                     1200 US$    ( 2 times ) -   pay half ( pay half for food and lodging )

   800 US$           2400 US$    ( 3 times ) -   volunteer for free ( food and lodging is free )
                     1600 US$    ( 2 times ) -   pay half ( pay half for food and lodging )