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🌊 Teach Water Safety to Children in Bali 🏝️

The experience

Make a lasting impact in Bali by helping local children learn essential water safety skills! As a volunteer, you’ll play a key role in preventing childhood drowning by delivering our daily programs that empower kids to stay safe in and around water.

What you offer

6 hours of help per day

Child Care: Caring for, playing with, and spending time with children.

Teaching Sports: Teaching or assisting the host, guests, or local communities in practicing sports or physical activities.

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

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 500 Per week

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

Description: The minimum period for volunteering in Swimdo is two weeks, with $1000 fee that covers accommodation, airport pick up and drop off, breakfast and dinner during teaching days (Monday - Friday), Transportation from the accommodation to teaching location, and one cultural tours. We also provide a volunteer assistant to help you settle and assist you during your stay.

What you get

2 days off per week

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

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

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

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

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

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

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Between 18 and 75 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

During your time volunteering, you will get to stay in Keramas village and experience to witness how the local Balinese life with their culture and religious practice that is very unique. Working alongside our local coordinators and instructors will build you a lifetime friendship and connection. Your main task is to teach local children survival swimming skills and safe rescue technic, and increase the community awareness on water safety through our community outreach program.

Activities & Shift

Duration:
During your two-week volunteering journey with Swimdo, you will work five days a week, from Monday to Friday. Here’s what a typical day looks like:

Monday - Friday:
Begin each day with a Bahasa Indonesia class, followed by community service in a local daycare or primary school teaching English.
In the afternoons, you’ll prepare for and conduct Swimdo sessions, teaching water safety and survival swimming to local children.
Each day ends with a brief class evaluation and a chance to enjoy local dining.

Weekend (Saturday - Sunday):
Free time to explore Bali. Volunteers are encouraged to visit cultural sites, enjoy the beaches, or relax and experience the local lifestyle attending ceremonies, surfing and visiting temples.

Rules

Qualifications:
Comfortable swimmer (lifeguard certification, and experience in teaching swimming is a plus but not required).
Enjoy working with children and adaptable to different cultures.
Positive attitude and team spirit.

Other requirements:
Since you will be handling our students directly, we require our volunteers to take A Safeguarding online class and online background check. We will guide you to take the class and provide you with the link to do background check.