Day One

To ease you into the local culture, your week will begin with an orientation of the town’s local facilities. This will be guided by our carefully selected English-speaking local co-ordinator who will provide 24-hour support throughout your stay. You will be shown where to find ATM’s, shops and anything else you might need during your stay.

Your local guide will then give you a presentation of the full history of the town, followed by an explanation of the current environmental. You will then be taken directly to a mangrove plantation site to observe first-hand how mangroves are grown and what is required for this.

The day will end with a walk around the local village, where you will also meet students whom you will be responsible for teaching throughout the week.

Day Two

Today you will begin to play your part in the plantation of the mangroves. You will go on a river cruise together with the local coordinator and other volunteers. The destination is a fully operational mangrove nursery, where you will be fixing and repairing young mangroves. 

This will be a rather tiring and exhausting day so you will be taken home for an hour rest in the afternoon. Then, when your energy levels are fully restored, you will go to the local village to teach English for one hour.

Day Three

Today you will go to a new piece of land, where you will be able to plant mangrove seedlings and create your own piece of history! The day will begin with learning the process of planting, which is much more than just placing a seed into the ground.

After this you will meet local fisherman, who will teach you old-fashioned, environmentally conscious fishing methods.

In the afternoon you will again work at the school, however today you are encouraged to play sports or do another activity with the children. We do stress that this is voluntary and teaching English is still an option if you so wish.

Day Four

Today is when you’ll discover the full scope of the town’s natural resources, as you and your fellow participants will be taken on a full countryside tour. The highlight of this is undeniably the pepper plantations, which is one of Cambodia’s finest and noblest resources that can be found in many Cambodian dishes.

In the evening you will be taken back to the mangrove site. However, this time you will not be working, but enjoying the fruits of your labour with a BBQ where you can relax and enjoy the local landscape and absorb the beautiful scenery from our specially designed riverside huts.

Day Five

Today will perhaps have a different flavour and emphasis in comparison to the others. In the morning you will go to see the village’s organic farm where you will be encouraged to take part in the work and learn their unique techniques.

This will be followed by an afternoon spent with some of the poorest families in the town. It is quite a challenging experience, but by this time you should be immersed enough in the local culture to handle this. It will not just be communication with the families, you will also be asked to help out with their building projects, namely helping to build wooden homes.

Days Six And Seven

We know that as a volunteer, you often have limited time away, and often like to use weekend as a time to explore on your own. Whilst we fully embrace this, in our experience participants are often so captivated by their experiences that we offer an optional itinerary for the weekend (at no extra cost).

On weekends we mainly focus on the poor and underdeveloped members of the Kampot community. We offer distribution of second-hand clothes to the local community and encourage you to participate in this. We provide these clothes, though this does not mean you cannot bring your own clothes from home if you’d like to contribute. The saying “one person’s rubbish is another’s treasure” will be fully comprehended with the smile you will be greeted with for doing this. 

If you still have sufficient energy we also run our teaching programme on Saturdays, but it will not be frowned upon if you choose this day to rest.

***This schedule can be changed and/or amended depending on weather conditions, local conditions and unforeseen circumstances.***