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Welcome to Volunteers in Asia (VIA)

Celebrating 45 years of international service & cross-cultural education!

Who are we?
VIA is dedicated to increasing understanding between the United States and Asia through public service and programs promoting cross-cultural education. We are an independent and entrepreneurial non-profit organization founded at Stanford University in 1963.

What do we do?
We provide U.S. Citizens and U.S. Residents (between the ages of 18 and 75) volunteer opportunities and fellowships in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand, where volunteers may teach English or work with a local non-profit. On the U.S. side, we bring Asian students from top universities in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China to Stanford where they learn about American culture, public service, and healthcare. So the exchange comes full circle.

Do you want to change your life or make a difference?

Check out our summer and long-term programs in Asia or our spring and summer programs at Stanford!

What's New!

  • Xin Chào! Vietnam Summer Programs Begin

    • On July 1, ten Teach in Hue volunteers and five Viet-Am volunteers joined two program coordinators in Hanoi, Vietnam for a week-long orientation before they begin their teaching and English resource work for the summer. Visit the program webpages to read more details about what the participants will be doing over the next two months:

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  • Video makes its way to VIA website
    • We now have the capability to embed videos from third-party internet video hosting sites on our VIA website. Check out the China Post page for a few examples. We hope that this will enable volunteers, participants, and VIA partners to share their stories in a more fun and interactive way. If you are a current participant, volunteer or VIA alum and you have videos you'd like to share, please send them to ben@viaprograms.org or vietnam@viaprograms.org. 
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  • VIA Meets FVIA 2009 Goal!
    • We are happy to announce that VIA has met and exceeded our fundraising goal for our 2009 annual Friends of VIA campaign! Thank you to all of our generous donors, alumni, and volunteers who helped to make this possible, and a special thanks to VIA's Board members and Board fundraising committee and Grace Kong (Thailand 1994) for leading this year's campaign!
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  • Bali-Bound: Volunteers Gather and Go!

    • Eight American college students and recent grads -- coming from as near as Palo Alto and as far as Minneapolis and Hawai'i -- took part in a two-day pre-departure training June 23 & 24th in Berkeley. They will be spending the next 8 weeks living with families, studying, teaching English and working with non-profits as part of the Bali Service-Learning program, which is co-coordinated this year by long-term VIA volunteer Rebeckah Gluckstein and local organizers Wahagus and Sani. 

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  • ALC Sendoff in Japan

    • As part of an effort to connect past Stanford Programs participants with new recent participants, Japan Alumni Committee (JAC) members held a send-off meeting for this summer's American Language & Culture (ALC) Program participants. ALC program alumni assisted the new participants in setting their goals for the program and preparing for their class projects. The meeting was followed by dinner and a social gathering. To view photos from the event, click here.

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