Youth Connect Foundation

Founded in 2009, Youth Connect Foundation aims to help young Burmese migrants from various ethnic minorities integrate into the labour market by offering vocational training to some 60 young people each year.

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Founded in 2009, the Youth Connect Foundation aims to provide training, internships and career guidance services. By providing these services it ensures students’ safety and increases productivity and independency and enable young Burmese migrants to enter the workforce; regardless of ethnic background.

The foundation offers vocational training courses to some sixty young people each year in the fields of hotel and catering, cooking, personal services, mechanics, etc. It also offers internships with partner companies and helps members of the community to obtain a work permit in Thailand.

Youth Connect Foundation also has a social business model through the Picture Book Guesthouse in Mae Sot, which funds part of the center’s activities and offers professional immersions for young people.

The training focuses on life skills such as decision making and communication, math, English and Thai. These courses allow students to acquire the necessary skills to make them more competitive in what they decide to do after high school.

The volunteer will have four mission:

  • Participate in teaching English, specific professional skills and other educational activities
  • Workshops empowerment , personal development, development of soft skills and ” life skills “
  • Individual support for students in their personal and professional projects.
  • Support the project of social business Picture Book Guesthouse, promotion of the hotel, setting up of communication supports, etc.
  • Current English required.
  • Eagerness for the transmission of knowledge.
  • Interest in human relations, dynamic and optimistic.
  • Listening and patience, openness, adaptability.
  • Sensitivity for themes related to insertion.
  • Intarakree Road Soi 5, Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand
Conditions

Duration :
3 months minimum from June to September

Localisation :
Intarakree Road Soi 5, Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand

Accommodation :
hostel (Guest House)

Internet access :
Yes (wifi)

Electricity :
Yes

Piped water :
Yes
Fees : Breakfast offered, the other meals are the responsibility of the volunteer. Accommodation is provided by the partner.
Between 500 and 700 € Transportation Cost (tax deductible).
200€ membership to AIME which allows you to benefit from:
- Follow-up and support
- Pre-departure training
- Starter kit (t-shirt, tote bag, stickers)
- Insurance (civil liability, health expenses and repatriation)
It is possible to exempt all costs from tax.
TAX EXEMPTION FOR COSTS INCURRED

Expenses incurred to participate in the mission are eligible for a tax reduction of 66% of the total amount spent.

For example :

Membership fee

200 €

Plane ticket

700 €

Accommodation / Food

100 €

Total

1 000 €

That is to say 340€ actually paid
following the tax reduction of 66%.

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