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Voluntary Jobs
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Closing Date: August 13th, 2011
Job Description
The Project
A harsh reality in this world is that child and human trafficking are real and pertinent issues facing millions of people each day. In an effort to fight this social taboo in Thailand, the need to raise awareness is essential, in turn helping to cease the spread of human trafficking whilst providing support to those who have fallen victim to the trade as well as creating a better future for children at risk.
Documenting the trade and those affected by it photographically, is a vital tool to allow ordinary people, far removed from Thailand and the situation at hand to get a visual taste of this unseen world. To do this, the project needs more keen and committed photographers to devote their time, skills and dedication to documenting the hill tribes of northern Thailand – helping to create real change in the lives of victims and those at risk of human trafficking.
Role of the volunteer
Throughout your photographic tour, you will be guided by a world renowned photographer and founder of a nonprofit organisation dedicated to supporting victims of human trafficking in Chiang Mai, Thailand. With him, you will visit and experience remote communities that have been kept at bay from the public eye for generations to listen, learn and photograph.
The expedition will lead you through remote areas of Southeast Asia which are focal points for human traffickers who are seeking out young children to become their trade – adding to the 2 million who are already being trafficked in Asia each year. During the expedition, your mission will be to document the daily reality which exists within these rural hill tribe communities. You will spend time talking to the villagers, experiencing their lives and trying to understand the challenges that these people are facing on a daily basis. Your contribution is to express their plight through the manner of your photographic lens allowing you to give back to them through a greater cultural awareness of their plight.
The expedition lasts around 10 to 15 days and will take place in northern Thailand where you will visit several hill tribes, shelters and at risk communities – learning their social and political issues as well as conducting some written and photographic case studies. You will receive expert photography instruction along the way, however you will need to be continually visualizing through your lens in order to clearly express to the outside world the inner working of the world of child trafficking. Your role really is to help educate those who are unaware of the issues facing so many families and young children amongst the hill tribes in northern Thailand.
Project Itinerary
Day 1: Orientation in Bangkok. Introduction to Thai Culture, language classes and city visit.
Day 2: Transfer to Chiang Mai
Day 3: Orientation on cultural understanding and the issues of trafficking.
Day 4: Workshops:
- The important role and power of photography as a story teller.
- Field experience
- Working on assignment.
- Ethical.
- What makes a good photographer?
Day 5: (Travel day/ 1/2 day) to villages and at risk communities.
Day 6 to Day 10 (or to Day 14 on the longer expedition): Being on the ground and working on assignments.
Day 11: (travel day 1/2 day) back to centre of the girl victims of human trafficking.
Day 12: Workshop:
- Review and discuss photography as story teller.
- Post productions and writing story to mass audience.
- Summarize the trips + Q&A.
- Receiving Certified letter.
Day 13: Depart for Chiang Mai airport
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