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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.
Description

Background:

Since 1958, Children of the Mekong has provided access to education to deprived children in six countries in Southeast Asia; Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, the Philippines & Thailand. We support and encourage the children to go as far as possible in their studies, until their professional integration. Today, we support more than 70,000 children, and 24,000 of them are sponsored individually. We carry out 190 development projects every year, and run 9 education centres to provide access to secondary school and university. Our operations are supported by 1,200 volunteers, as well as 60 overseas volunteers every year, and our charitable expenditure rate is 83.6%.

We have one permanent staff member in the UK,  Eugenie Munakarmi, COO, who is based in Hammersmith, London, and a team of volunteers.

 For more information, please visit: http://www.childrenofthemekong.org/ or contact Eugenie Munakarmi at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Duties

Duties and Responsibilities:

We are seeking someone enthusiastic and motivated to establish and develop long-term relationships with Trusts and Foundations while promoting COTM’s projects and mission. The role includes but is not limited to:

  • Researching and identification of new Trusts and Foundations leads
  • Managing our Trusts and Foundations database - updating content according to criteria, and adding new foundation information.
  • Applying for grants - including filling out application forms and writing and updating project proposals.
  • Answering queries that donors may have about our projects
  • Sending progress and annual reports to donors 
Who will the volunteers be working with?
COTM has one permanent staff member, Eugenie Munakarmi, COO, who is based in Hammersmith, London, and a team of volunteers. Our COO will be your mentor and provide support and training throughout your volunteering experience. The team of interns and volunteers meets virtually 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
Hours: Part-time (1 days / week)
Length: 6-month internship
Start date: flexible, ideally early February 2026

Causes

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This organisation is one of our community partner organisations.

Like all volunteer recruiters we work with, they have signed up to our service standards, agreeing to abide by our policy on partnership working to keep you safe and supported whilst you volunteer.

You’ll never be out of pocket for volunteering through us – with in-London travel expenses to and from your volunteering guaranteed.

In addition, the team here at Students’ Union UCL Volunteering Service is here to support you throughout your volunteering journey – you can get in touch with us at any time.