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1.Short Term Volunteering / Work Camp

Short Term Volunteering (STV) also known as work camp is community service that take 2-3 weeks undertaken by volunteers from various countries. Each work camp has specific theme such as environment, agriculture, children, heritage, literacy, etc. 

Aims 

• Exchange experience and culture, to provide opportunities for volunteers to connect with and learn from the community through enjoyment of local life and exchange. 
• Provide a lasting change with specialized and sustainable voluntary works that improve the community. 
• Give mutual benefit between the stakeholder, to empower not only the hosts, but also the local communities especially in depopulated areas. 

Types of STV Projects 

• International Work Camp: the participants come from more than 2 countries and/or nationalities.
• Bilateral Work Camp: the participants come from 2 countries and/or nationalities.
• Group Work Camp: bilateral the participants come from 2 countries and/or nationalities with special project and similar background.

2.Long Middle Term Volunteering (LMTV)

Long Middle Term Volunteering (LMTV) is international volunteering program where volunteers do their service in a project of 2-4 months (middle term) or more than 4 months (long term). Furthermore, LMTV is mostly dedicated to do voluntary service for the sustainability of a project by supporting and collaborating with local partners and/or local communities. The support and collaboration means in planning, preparing, implementing and evaluating their activities. This activity is more of individual placement rather than in group. Sometimes there are 2 to 3 volunteers in one project.

LMTV projects give opportunity for volunteers to experience, to learn new things, to interact with local people and culture. Also, it is a chance for volunteers to develop personal and social skills. Many of GREAT LMTV project sites are also work camp project sites. This is because GREAT acknowledges the importance of combining both volunteering types to be applied in one project site in order to achieve goals of each IVS project.