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Wh
y should a Vietnamese come to Sri Lanka?
Sri Lanka, an teardrop-shaped island known as the “Pearl of Indian Ocean�, has been a calling for people who desire to immerse themselves in the time and space of history, nature and culture. A unparalleled culture set of Theravada Buddhism passed on from India for 2000 years; with Portuguese, Dutch, and British elements having intermingled through the history of colonial occupation, mix modern elements with traditional aspects and shape a unique cultural identity out of Sri Lanka. While housing various pilgrimage sites for the different religions including Buddhist Hindu and Muslim, Sri Lanka is also identified as one of 34 world biodiversity hot spots, offering one of the most unique wildlife experiences ever. Coming to Sri Lanka, young Vietnamese has a chance to embrace a slow-down in their fast-paced life, to discover, to enjoy and to reconnect in the sincere hospitality of the rustic Sri Lankan while participating in impactful social projects to construct a better Sri Lanka.
What Impact will you make?
Guru Gedara
Go Green
An educational project which aims at improving English language competency of underprivileged students...
A project to enhance the knowledge about the nature of Sri Lanka and the challenges faced by the country's environment system as a result of human activities...
Heal a Nation A project focusing on enhancing public awareness on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Non-Communicable Diseases. (HIV/AIDS, Diabetes...)
Explore Sri Lanka A project to reveal the world, the hidden beauty of the paradise island Sri Lanka...
What Impact will you make?
Ripple Effect
Drug – free youth
A project focusing on community service for disadvantaged people (orphans, Down Syndrome...) with the vision of enhancing the lives of Sri Lankan people...
A project aimed at reducing drug usage by Sri Lankan youth by raising awareness about the consequences of drug abuses...
Earth A project with the objective of increasing awareness regarding sustainability...
Guru Gedara
Mark your calendar! You can start anyday (flexible timeline)
Our purpose Guru Gedara is an educational project which aims at improving English language competency of underprivileged students at schools and educational institutes in various areas of the country and sharing diverse cul¬tural experience. And to build up the students confidence to speak in English while improving their English vocabulary and Grammar is essential.
Guru Gedara
Our objectives Increase the English language literacy level of underprivileged students of the Sri Lankan society. Opportunity created for the children in schools to have interactions with foreign nationals,
Uplifted the level of English of school children at an early stage of their lives. Cross cultural experience for youth and Children To raise the leadership skills among interns and AIESECers
What’s my job in the project? Assist and encourage underprivileged students to understand and learn English and IT (Basics of using MS word, PowerPoint, Excel, Internet and Email) through creative activities, sessions and games. The Interns have to work in 10 schools with 2000 heads covered, 3 Interns will be allocated to work in one school Session names, objectives and out comes will be provided. Interns have to design and develop session contents and materials. The school teachers will assist the interns in this process. To facilitate students to improve team working skills, presentation skills, communication skills, Interactive learning and activity based learning.
Organize a beach cleanup in order to create social awareness about protecting environment and take the message to the school children. Organize an English workshop and an IT workshop for the school children of the selected schools to give a better understanding for students.
Guru Gedara
There will be a Global Village as one of the events. Interns are expected to bring their national flag, traditional dress, traditional food etc. to represent their country during the Global Village.
Go Green
Mark your calendar! You can choose to participate in one of these three batches 1st Batch : 20th June 2nd Batch : 13th July 3rd Batch: 24th August
Our purpose Go Green is an opportunity to enhance the knowledge about the nature of Sri Lanka and the challenges faced by the country's environment system as a result of human activities. The project works towards environment conservation and carries a series of workshops, campaigns and other CSR activities focused on overcoming the key environmental challenges faced by Sri Lanka
Go Green
Our objectives To increase the public awareness about environmental conservation
An opportunity to involve in public and introduce practical methods to conserve the nature To improve the innovative ideas of members within new solutions to environmental pollution in Sri Lanka To get the attention towards the degrading beauty and aesthetic value of Sri Lanka and get people involved
What’s my job in the project? Interns will deliver lessons about what is environment and why should we conserve it? The project also includes School Awareness Programs about energy and soil conservation. Interns will join with Tree plantation programs and conservation practices in different institutes in the middle country of Sri Lanka Interns will also have a chance to travel some natural places in the island to see the beauty and recognize the harm on it as well as to be aware of the challenges faced at different ecosystems. By observing the forests interns should be able to identify the threats and make relevant solutions.
Interns will observe the polluted places in Colombo city with urbanization and should make a proper plan that can be implemented with the municipal council. Also interns will be working with NGOs and many more voluntary works related to the environment.
Go Green
Heal a nation
Mark your calendar! Project start day: Jun 20th
Our purpose Project Heal a Nation is project focusing on making awareness on sexually transmitting diseases and non communicable diseases. A good example for STDs is HIV/AIDS. Diabetes and Coronary Heart Diseases are some popular Non Communicable Diseases
Heal a nation
Our objectives Make more and more young people aware about the STDs and NCDs
Bring the correct idea to the society about the current situation in Sri Lanka regarding the issues. Make EPs aware about the issue and then after they go back to their country they can work on the issue too.
What’s my job in the project? We make awareness mainly through workshops done at schools, Institutes and universities for students. These workshops could include activities such as presentations, group activities and discussions. Furthermore, interns can come up with any other creative ideas that they feel appropriate. Interns have to do 5 different sessions with 700 heads covered. Interns have to design and develop session contents and materials.
Apart from these, interns would have the opportunity to visit patients suffering from Non-Communicable Diseases.
Interns can represent their country in AIESEC local and national events.
Heal a nation
Explore Sri Lanka
Mark your calendar! You can start your project in either of these option 1st Batch : 20th June 2nd Batch : 13th July
Our purpose This project aims to reveal the world, the hidden beauty of the paradise island Sri Lanka, especially less popular tourist destinations. The EPs are expected to produce promotional materials about those places such as photographs, videos and articles.
Heal a nation
Our objectives Promoting hidden beauties of Sri Lanka to the world
Promote the unique cultural diversity that can be experienced in Sri Lanka Introduce new promotional methods to the Sri Lankan tourism industry
What’s my job in the project? Explore Sri Lanka is about photography, filming, tourism and marketing. During 6 weeks interns will be travelling around most amazing places in Sri Lanka & capture the beauty through their professional cameras. During tours interns will be experiencing different climates, people, cultures, surroundings, adventure etc. Interns ought to take photographs, filming which will be using in each tour documentary by selecting the best out of all photographs & make a particular video for each tour & write articles named as the “documentary of each tour” which reveals your real experience as an explorer .
At the end of the project we will be organizing a photographic exhibition call "ZEPHYR" which exhibit the most outstanding photographs taken by interns & they will be rewarded as well. Videos made by interns will also be uploaded to our social media network
Heal a nation
There will be a Global Village as one of the events. Interns are expected to bring their national flag, traditional dress, traditional food etc. to represent their country during the Global Village.
Ripple Effect
Mark your calendar! Project start day: June 13th
Our purpose Project Ripple Effect is focusing on community service with the vision of enhancing the lives of Sri Lankan people. This project mainly will be focused on identifying problems in rural areas and finding solutions, educating children on health problems, interacting with local communities, organizing events for orphanages and organizing campaigns to find the solutions to identified problems.
Our objectives To give intern an idea about the different area of the society
Make a discussion the Sri Lankan society regarding the volunteerism. Encourage more people joining with these kind of projects to help out the society Expose a hidden side of Sri Lankan society to the world
Ripple Effect
Encourage the people around the world to help the Sri Lankan society
What’s my job in the project? Interns will have to engage with different orphanages around the country. Interns have to design and develop lesson contents for these children with assistance of AIESEC members (If interns can bring food items and souvenirs from their own country’s it is highly appreciated, as it will be a brand new experience for these children). Interns can design and develop what are the activities they are going to do in each event. For each event a Team Leader will be assigned from the Interns so they will have an opportunity to develop their selves further.
Interns will spend a day in a Down’s Syndrome House to identify their needs and help to uplift the place cleaning. There will also be an interactive session with the cancer community of Sri Lanka. Interns will have to facilitate the event & spend some time with the patients & identify the difficulties that they are facing.
Ripple Effect
There will be a Global Village as one of the events. Interns are expected to bring their national flag, traditional dress, traditional food etc. to represent their country during the Global Village.
Drug – free youth
Mark your calendar! Project start day: July 1st
Our purpose The project is aimed at reducing drug usage by Sri Lankan youth by working with NGOs related with drug prevention and also by conducting seminars and workshops to create the correct mindset about drug usage and its consequences. This project's main focus is to prevent drug abuse among youth & raise awareness in the society regarding the consequences of drug abuse, with regard to physical, mental & social well being of person
Drug – free youth
Our objectives Promote zero tolerance policies for youth regarding the use of illegal drugs within the family, school, workplace, and community. Encourage and assist the development of community coalitions and programs in preventing drug abuse To provide education and support on prevention and risk reduction to Community Resource Persons on substance abuse and its impact.
What’s my job in the project? Interns are expected to create awareness on the consequences of taking drugs and related issues through presentations , training sessions and seminars to the youth. Interns are expected to developing a anti-drug mind set among the youth and give them a helping hand to move away from drugs through introduction of new ideas and practical ways of abdicating drug use. Work in collaboration with the different NGO’s around Colombo and organize an external event involving members of the AIESEC, general public and the NGO's., as an initiation towards larger a public dialogue against drug abuse. Attend workshops with the different NGOs and site visits so as to seek information about the actual situation in the country, and understand cultural issues attached to drug use in Sri Lanka. Plan and design workshops and presentations to be carried out in society, creates awareness about risks of using drugs.
Drug – free youth
Earth
Mark your calendar! Project start day: June 30th
Our purpose Project Earth is a project with the objective of increasing awareness regarding sustainability. We will be visiting different areas in the country delivering the sessions to the school children and university students. Also Intern will be working with government authorities such as irrigation department. They will participate in a field visit conducted by the irrigation department and expected to submit a report. Also beach cleanups, tree planting programs will happen in the project
Earth
Our objectives Increase the awareness about the sustainability among the young students of Sri Lanka Making a direct impact through the beach cleanups and tree planting program.
To give interns a better understanding about the situation
What’s my job in the project? EPs will have to conduct sessions in schools about environmental sustainability (around 68 schools from different areas) Improving the awareness about sustainability among the school children will be main objective. There will be a tree plantation program organized and interns are expected to be participated in this program’s actively. There will be a beach cleanup event and interns should participate in this as well. Local students will participate in this program with interns. There will be field visit conducting by irrigation department of Sri Lanka. At the end of this field visit interns should make an article mentioning the issues they observe in the field visit and suggesting solutions to them. This article should be up to the standards to publish in public media.
Earth
There will be a Global Village as one of the events. Interns are expected to bring their national flag, traditional dress, traditional food etc. to represent their country during the Global Village.