About the program
This Tourism Vocational High School is a newly developing Trade High School in Ubud. Unfortunately, the school has yet to be recognized by the government of Indonesia and cannot qualify for funding. Therefore, it completely operates on private donations and volunteers. Schooling is not free after the 8th grade in Bali, leaving impoverished children nowhere to turn for Senior High School. Therefore, the goals of this school are to provide education for underprivileged orphans from all over Bali, and to create job opportunities in the tourism industry for the students after graduation. Volunteers should be over 20 years old and be able to work alone. Moreover, they must prepare and hand in teaching and activity plans, consisting of ideas and creation of what they want to teach or present during their service in the project.

Roles and Responsibilities

Each volunteer and intern is asked to arrange a copy of their criminal record in their home country. Once they arrive in Bali, they will receive a copy of this Child Protection Policy and the Code of Conduct, which must be understood, acknowledged, and signed.

Volunteer visa information

To work as a volunteer in Indonesia, you will need to possess a volunteer visa with a C6 visa index. This visa is issued to applicants who are going to Indonesia for a volunteer visit, for example, visiting social organizations with the same type of activities; for exchange visits between educational institutions, carrying out research, and attending a training program in Indonesia. Volunteer visa holders are not allowed to receive any salary for the visit they do. You have to apply before your arrival in Bali. We will assist you. To be able to volunteer or do an internship legally; you do need the C6 Volunteer Visa. Any other visa type is not sufficient. 

• Time of application: 2 weeks. The visa application process takes some time, and due to other reasons (Indonesian holidays or strike of postal employees, for example), the process can be delayed. Therefore, we recommend starting the application process the latest around 4 weeks prior to your arrival in Indonesia.
• Validity: 60 days after arrival
• Extension: can be extended up to 3 times every 60 days
• Costs: 185 Euro
• Cost of extension in Bali: starting from 1,600,000 IDR via private agency, 1,500,000 IDR non-agency assistance extension

Average Living expenses in Bali

Indonesia is considered to be really cheap to live in. This is something you will find out quickly after your arrival in Bali. Here you will see with additional costs you have to plan during your time in Bali.

Food: The amount of money you will spend on food depends on your eating habits. If you eat at a local warung, you will spend around 2€/2.20US$ for a proper meal with a drink. But if you prefer to eat Western food, you will spend a lot more (at least 5€/5.35US$, but probably even more).

Laundry: In our accommodation, you won’t have laundry facilities. So you have to bring your laundry to a laundry service somewhere around your living area. Average laundry costs are around 0.50-1€/$ for one kilogram of laundry.

Phone Credit: In all our accommodations, you will find wifi. Therefore, 2GB of mobile data plus some credit for calling your friends should be enough per month. This will cost you around 5€/5.25$.

Scooter Rental + Petrol: Renting a scooter will cost around 55€/60$ per month. Petrol is quite cheap in Indonesia, and 1 litre will be around  0.50€/$. In practice, this means that you won't need more than 4 €/$ per week for petrol unless you intend to do a bike trip around the island.

Trips: How much money you want to spend on trips to explore Bali is eventually up to you. You can minimize expenses if you spend a bit more time organizing as much as you can by yourself instead of using a travel agent or trip packages.