English as a Second Language Program

One of our most popular placements. The ESL Teacher placement gives volunteers an opportunity to hone their teaching skills and gain valuable experience that will help with future employment, all whilst exploring one of the last true wildernesses on Earth. On this placement, you will make a huge impact on the lives of children in North Sumatra by providing them with high-quality education in the English Language completely FREE!

Placement Overview:
Travel to the very edge of the wilderness to our Hub in Bukit Lawang, situated on the edge of the Endangered Leuser Ecosystem, the last place on Earth where you can find Elephants, Tigers, Rhinos, Bears and Orangutans living together in the wild!
You will contribute towards our program objectives of giving all of our students equal access to English language learning and work to deliver a comprehensive ESL curriculum to students from up to 10 different rural communities across North Sumatra.
You will spend most of your time at our community centre in Bukit Lawang delivering English classes to a wide range of classes of varying ages and abilities, including an adult class, advanced class and role specific classes!

Your Impact:
During the course of your placement as one of our English as a Second Language (ESL) Teachers, you will be delivering a comprehensive curriculum built around the University of Cambridge ESL curriculum.
You will be providing FREE education to hundreds of students who otherwise may not have access to get themselves.
Our ESL program has been designed from day 1 alongside the communities we serve to ensure that our program is needed and wanted by the local people. What's more all of our programs have been built upon the framework of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. During your time on this program you will be contributing and working towards these goals.