Volunteer Summer School in Buryatia
- WHAT: Teach kids, travel and explore Buryat culture, food and nature.
- WHERE: Eurasia -> Russia -> Buryatia
- WHEN: 2011.
- HOW MUCH: Cost
- WHO: Volunteers from different countries of the world, those who want to visit the place they have never been to, want to see what they haven't seen, want to live unique experience, broaden own mind and help local children to get a wider exposure to the world and opportunities of the education.
Make change - educate yourself and others!
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Make change – educate yourself and others
Cost
Dear Volunteers,
As the Volunteer Summer School in Buryatia has no sponsors (yet, we hope), you will have to arrange your visa to Russia and tickets yourself (some useful links regarding this you can find here on the website or contact me in case of any questions).
Your expences on trip to the VSS in Buryatia will consist of:
All in sum excluding visa and tickets would amount to no more than approx. ~ 400 Euros. This includes some margin in it.
! Important !: This is not a fee for participation. No money given to me directly before the travel. Costs calculation above reflects your personal expences. It means you should have at least ~ 400 Euros (in Rubles, of course) in your wallet when you arrive/ land/ come to Ulan-Ude for your expences till the end of School.
* * * Keep it local * * *
BuryatiaSummerSchool.org aims to make believe local kids into power of knowledge and education. It also aims to make believe everybody that to implement ideas we do not need necessarily a big amount of money or an impressive support of sponsors with global brands name. That does not mean that BuryatiaSummerSchool.org is not in search for it or would ever refuse it. We are open and would appreciate any kind of support/ links/ contacts/ information.
Our Volunteers’ expences for the trip are no more and no less as if they would decide to come and travel through Buryatia independently. The difference is that this project is a unique life experience in a unique place. You would never be able to get there as a tourist because of the entry permissions unless: 1) you participate in BuryatiaSummerSchool.org, 2) you know me and come to visit me there, 3) you know someone from the villages to come to visit them. Let me guess, you know no one in the villages, am I right?
I believe that everyone indeed can do SOMETHING to help others and to make the world a little bit better. What can YOU do is to come and to teach those kids and to share your knowledge and to inspire them to study.
It’s independent and local project that aims to show that this is possible and real to realize! If you are inspired by our project, if you see the same problems around you and want to try to do a similar project and want to know more about our experience of implementation, don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions.