Volunteer Teaching in Cambodia

Welcome to Cambodia! Upon your arrival today, your local guide will be waiting for you to transfer you to your hotel or host family home.

The afternoon is yours to explore the area, rest after your long flight, or chat with some locals. Cambodia is an impoverished country but also very beautiful, with friendly and welcoming poeple. The land is covered with green valleys, magical dense forests, and deep flowing rivers..

In the evening, you’ll meet with your group and guide for authentic local cuisine. Your guide will share details of your schedule as well as provide tips about local customs and safety.

Today you will make your way into the city center where you will be teaching your classes. Following a short orientation and training, you will meet the students you will be teaching. Many Cambodians lack knowledge of how to prevent diseases and live a healthy lifestyle. As a volunteer, you will be teaching teens and adults some of these basic principles. Classes will be every morning with free time every afternoon.

After enjoying lunch at a local restaurant, you will get to know the area through a marketplace scavenger hunt.

As you get to know your students, and they get to know you, share stories about your lives — how they are different and how they are the same. 

Following a morning of teaching, you head to a local farm to help plant rice. Learn how the crop is integral to the everyday life of Cambodia. 

After classes today, you will head to Angkor Wat, the largest Buddhist temple in the world. The temple is reportedly the resting place for King Suryavarman II; each structure representing a different phase of his life, death, and life beyond. 

Afterward, you can ride a quad or dirt bike on the red dirt roads of Siem Reap before dinner.

After another fun day of teaching, you will visit the Cambodia Landmine Museum. Nearly 6 million landmines are thought to still be hidden in the fields of Cambodia, remnants of the Vietnam and Khmer Rouge regime. At the Cambodia Landmine Museum, you will learn about the who used these mines, what types of mines they devised, and why they are still a problem.

There are even some active and detonated mines on display. You will learn what is being done to eliminate these hidden dangers.

Today is your final day of teaching. After classes this morning, you will head to the Angkor Center for Conservation of Biodiversity. Learn what is being done to preserve the flora and fauna of Cambodia, including breeding of endangered species, animal rescue and rehabilitation, community education, and conservation research.

Today you have a free day to explore, relax, or shop.

Here are some suggestions for your day: you may choose to join a cooking class to learn how to prepare some of the delicious foods you have tasted in the past week. Or, you may choose to indulge yourself in a massage or manicure at a local spa for an amazingly low price. Or perhaps visit Banteay Srey Butterfly Center. The sanctuary allows you to get up close to butterflies and insects.

Whatever you choose, enjoy your final day in Cambodia!

Hopefully, you have had an educational and fun week. Enjoy a final breakfast with your group and guides while you share your favorite memories and what you have learned. It is time to head to the airport for your departure flight home.