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Children of the Mekong
Children of the Mekong works with local communities to improve access and quality of education in Southeast Asia. Children of the Mekong supports children's education in 3 ways: i) With programmes allowing individual child sponsorship, ii) By running education centres and foster houses, iii) By implementing development programmes to improve the children's environment.
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Description

Children of the Mekong (COTM) is the UK branch of Enfants du Mékong (EDM), a leading French charity founded in 1958 with the aim of sending poor children to school in Southeast Asia.  In 2023, COTM had an annual budget of 15 million Euros, with 84% of charitable expenditure.  COTM currently sponsor 24,000 children, oversee 100 development projects every year, and operate 10 centres and 78 foster homes in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Children of the Mekong was established in 2011 in the UK; While COTM works closely with the field and the head office in Paris, the charity is independently run and overseen by a motivated and dedicated Board of Trustees. 

COTM has one permanent staff member, Eugenie Munakarmi, COO, who is based in Acton, London, and a team of volunteers.

For more information, please visit: http://www.childrenofthemekong.org/ or contact Eugenie Munakarmi at eugenie@childrenofthemekong.org

Duties

Your role, as a communication officer will include:

  • Updating the website with new content that will be provided to you, using a user-friendly WordPress dashboard.
  • Lead the "new content" project which aims at creating and uploading new articles to create more content on our website. This includes writing the article guidelines, sharing them with volunteer writers, proofreading and making SEO improvements, and uploading the article online.    
  • Preparing the digital marketing campaigns (Back-to-School, Christmas, World Day Against Child Labour) and writing posts for social media.
Who will the volunteers be working with?
Our COO, Eugenie Munakarmi, will be your mentor and provide support and training throughout your volunteering experience. The team of interns and volunteers meets online every week, it’s a great opportunity to learn more about what the others are doing and get to know how a small charity works from the inside.
Training
Training will be provided.

Time commitment

Location: Home based with possibility to come to work at our COO's place in East Acton
Hours: Part-time (1 day / week)
Length: minimum 3 months
Start date: flexible, ideally September 2024
Allowance: Pro Bono

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