End of the Expedition

The 8th GVI Expedition in Thailand has come to an end. We said goodbye to a number of new and old friends as volunteers and staff parted ways.

Over the past 10 weeks GVI's volunteers taught well over 100 adult students in the community and awarded 113 certificates of attendance. They taught regular English classes at the Ao Luk Primary School and the Ao Luk Municipality School providing quality lessons for over 700 school children. Through Friday village projects they visited 5 different villages and picked up trash and cleaned up a community forest with local community members and taught English lessons at two different rural schools. In addition volunteers took part in Thai cooking workshops, Thai lessons, the Thai Songkraan festival, visited local tourist attractions, began renovations on another new classroom and assisted with the future English Self Access Library. All in all it's been a busy 10 weeks.

Here are some photo fantastic memories of our fabulous volunteers over the last 10 weeks.

Songkraan Day (13 April) with our first TEFL training group

Patriot Party with our second TEFL training group and Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs)

The Ims! From right to left, Mim (3rd time teaching children volunteer), Tim (20 week volunteer) and Kim (GVI volunteer gone short term staff)

Mike and Matt - Teaching Children Volunteer

Thank you to all the volunteers and staff that made the last 10 weeks a success!!!

End of the Expedition