Empower Local Families Through Nutrition in the Philippines

The experience

By volunteering on a nutrition project, you can help us in addressing a critical local public health issue whilst at the same time working closely with VFV staff and local community members to tailor projects to combat hunger and improve food security.

What you offer

4 hours of help per day

Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 950 One time

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

Description: $950 US Dollars for 2 weeks, $120 for each week thereafter. Included: Airport Reception, Accommodation with local host family, 2 meals a day (breakfast and dinner), program orientation, Waray Waray language lesson, 24 hour local staff support

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.

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!

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.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner English

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Travel insurance

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

A critical objective is to educate Filipinos on the need to cut back on the amount of sugar and salt they use in their local diet, and to increase consumption of vegetables. There is little public education on these needs.

To this end, VFV created its Public Nutrition Project with the ongoing goal being to alter Filipino attitudes towards food whilst at the same time addressing the issues of undernourishment amongst local community pre-school children.

You will work with VFV’s Community Feeding Project, planning, budgeting and providing supplementary feeding menu’s for the daily feeding of up to 35 preschool children. At the same time, you will work closely with local mothers to educate them on the importance of nutrition and to investigate and implement long term solutions to combat hunger and food security. Such methods might include investigating the possibility and effectiveness of organizing local community feeding kitchens and implementing plans for communities to become self-sustainable.

You will be staying in a local community area of Tacloban City. A homestay will be assigned to you once you confirmed your trip.

Activities & Shift

Activities: Plan and prepare supplementary feeding, monitor and analyze clientele growth, organize interactive seminars with community members, make efforts to change attitudes towards the importance of different food groups.

Working Hours: 08:00am – 12 noon, Monday to Friday (minimum)

Rules

Punctuality and Professionalism are expected during all scheduled project hours (08:00 AM – 12 Noon, Monday to Friday).

You are required to apply for your own visa that permits your stay and volunteering activities in the Philippines.

Respect the cultural norms and rules of your host family and the local community at all times.