We were based at Hiep Phuoc village, Nha Be District, Ho Chi Minh City.We did such volunteer work as organizing games and activities for local children, conducting literacy classes for adults and remedial classes for weak students and rebuilding damaged roads as well.
Both Vietnamese and foreign volunteers were divided into groups of three.We stay with the families around the village, doing virious volunteer tasks
Our main task as to teach beginners and false beginners how to read and write. Based on their different levels, we set them into groupings. Every morning, we conducted remedial courses for weak schoolboys and schoolgirls from 7:30 a.m to 9:30 a.m. In the afternoon, we taught teenagers to read and write again from 2:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m.Then we set off for the evening classes usually started at 5:00 p.m and lasted for two hours.It was not an easy task at all to teach the adults
who came after a day’s hard work: some even brought along their children and looked after them during class.Besides our main tasks,we organized games for children and often spent the rest of the evening making friends with local young people.
When evaluating our one-month work in such a different environment, we came to an agreement that it was a really good opportunity for us.Despite hardship, we benefited a lot from
Our volunteer programs,Indeed, helping the community enables us to develop our interpersonal skills, attain mutual understanding , promote friendship and discover our own talent.
Be based: have somewhere as your place of work.
Conduct :to do sth in an organized way.
Literacy class:class for people who can’t read or write.
Remedial class:class for people having difficulty learning the basic skills of reading and writing.
Set off: start.
Evaluate : to make judgement about quality of sth.

Firsthand experience: experience gained by doing sth yourself.
Hardship: a situation in which your life is not convenient and very difficult.
To benefit: get advantages from sth.
Interpersonal skill: the ability to create good relationship between yourself and the others.
Attain mutual understanding: succeed in feeling in the same way between 2 or more people.