🐝 Teach With a Pure Heart at the Mangrove Education Center

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The experience

Share your language skills—whether Korean, Japanese, English, Arabic, or French—with local children and community members. Roll up your sleeves with activities like tending the garden around your mini cabin, creating graffiti-style murals, planting mangroves, and learning the art of stingless beekeeping, from hive care to sampling fresh honey on-site.

This experience offers a rare chance to support the environment, exchange cultures, and make a

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What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Teaching Languages: Teaching a language to the host, guests, or local communities.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 17 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: A daily contribution of $17 helps cover your lodging and meals, and there's a scooter you can rent directly on-site. Your stay will be in a 3 x 6 meter mini cabin located close to the project area.

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What you get

3 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

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Requirements

Intermediate English or Intermediate French

Between 18 and 50 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

Be from outside Indonesia

Travel insurance

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What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

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Program Details

🗣️ In this program, you’ll join the Nature School as a conversational mentor, helping students practice everyday language skills.
🐝 You’ll also get hands-on experience with stingless beekeeping, from caring for hives to harvesting honey in an eco-friendly way.
🌏 Support children and young people as they gain confidence in foreign languages — whether it’s English, French, Japanese, Korean, or any language you speak — while encouraging awareness of the environment.
🤝 Strengthen cross-cultural connections and demonstrate how learning and nature-based skills can uplift and empower local communities.

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Activities & Shift

📚 Volunteer Schedule

🌅 Early Morning (Optional | 5 AM – 7 AM)
Join local women during low tide to collect oysters — a valuable protein source you can even ask them to cook for you.

🌞 Morning (8 AM – 11 AM)
Join lessons as a conversational partner
Support teachers during English or other language classes
Lead speaking games, storytelling, and interactive activities
Help students with pronunciation, vocabulary, and basic grammar
Occasionally assist with the English Club
🐝 Take part in stingless beekeeping training — observe hives, learn simple hive maintenance, and explore sustainable honey harvesting.

🛏️ Midday (11 AM – 3 PM)
Rest, recharge, and enjoy downtime in your mini cabin.

🌿 Afternoon (3 PM – 5 PM)
Guide outdoor language-learning sessions
Teach eco-related vocabulary through games and stories
Use nature walks and crafts to enhance learning
Support small group speaking practice to build confidence
🐝 Work with the community on hands-on beekeeping tasks like preparing hive boxes, checking colonies, and planting nectar-rich plants.

🌙 Night (Optional | 7 PM – 11 PM)
Experience traditional night fishing — spear-fishing or crab hunting using bubu traps in the mangroves.

🌟 Weekend Opportunities
🏖️ Donation-based (pay-as-you-wish) activities on and off-site, including scuba diving, surfing, cooking classes, stingless honey tasting, digital literacy sessions, and visits to waterfalls, the Gili islands, and various tourism villages around Lombok.
🏍️ Scooter riders are welcome to join by meeting the group at the designated gathering point.

📝 Additional Notes
🌿 This remote and developing area is gradually becoming a center for mangrove research. You’ll often meet university students camping nearby.

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Rules

🕌 Cultural Guidelines for Volunteers in Lombok
Lombok is a deeply traditional island with a strong Muslim heritage. Adapting to local customs will help you stay respectful and enjoy a smooth, positive experience.

✅ DOs
Wear modest clothing that covers your shoulders and knees; loose styles work best.
Follow dress expectations when entering homes, schools, or religious areas.
Keep tattoos covered when possible and limit visible piercings.
Take off your shoes before stepping into homes or prayer spaces.
Be considerate during prayer times and keep noise low around mosques.
Use your right hand when giving, receiving, or eating.
Always ask before photographing someone.
Be friendly, learn simple greetings, try local dishes, and interact respectfully.
Be honest about your personal background and follow community guidelines.

❌ DON’Ts
Avoid wearing clothing that is tight, short, see-through, or revealing.
Do not display offensive imagery or wording.
Refrain from drinking alcohol, using drugs, or showing romantic affection in public.
Don’t criticize or make jokes about religious or cultural traditions.
Do not bring pork into Muslim homes.
Don’t disturb prayer activities or enter mosques without appropriate attire.
Avoid bikinis on beaches outside designated tourist areas.
Don’t provide false personal information.
Avoid smoking around families and children.

🌙 During Ramadan
Do not eat, drink, or smoke publicly during daylight hours.
Keep celebrations or music at low volume.
Dress modestly and be respectful if invited to join the evening meal to break the fast (iftar).