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Hanoikids

Full name:hanoikids club

Abr: HNKS

Website: http://www.hanoikids.org

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Overview
'Hanoikids''', established in 2006, is a student-run organization based in Hanoi, Vietnam which voluntarily takes tours around Hanoi. The aim is give tourists visiting Hanoi an insight into Vietnamese culture, tradition and the beautiful sights. The students can use their English skills to help them reach their full potential through cross-cultural experiences and extra-curricular activities.

Value and mission
The group of students are young, creative, and always sharing and have high values. Setting up and maintaining a distinctive, efficient studying environment for English learners, acknowledge self-awareness and responsibilities to preserve Vietnam's cultural traits and traditions. Developing cross-cultural understanding between Vietnam and the rest of the world by giving foreign tourists an insight into the local life of our country, building up the spirit of global citizenship in Vietnamese youth to adapt to changes.

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Some achievements''' == With the total amount of 150 members, Hanoikids has gained considerable achievements such as being ranked first among Things to do when you come to Hanoi on tripadvisor.com, ,the world’s largest travel website that assists customers in gathering information, posting opinions and reviews of travel related content and engaging in interactive travel forum. On October 31st 2010, Hanoikids had the honor to accompany [Australian Prime Minister – Hon Ms. Julia Gillard MP at Temple of Literature during her recent visit to Hanoi ; Hanoikids was invited as special guests on television's programs like ‘The Global Citizen’ -VTV3, ‘Hello Vietnam’ -VTV 4; Hanoikids appeared on local as well as international newspapers like vnexpress.net, Wanderlust - English tourist newspaper, and other articles written by their friends. The number of tours taken by this club has increased from 17 tours in the first year to 90 tours per month at the moment.

Structure
Find more in Structure of Hanoikids

Activities
Their main activities of are taking tours, training, promoting strong bon among members and contributing to the community.

Tour taking
Tour taking is the most important activity that Hanoikids are dedicated to. Their members volunteer to accompany tourists on free-of-charge tours of Hanoi in hope of giving the “local feel” to foreign friends, helping tourists discover an ancient yet modern, peaceful yet dynamic, familiar but unusual Hanoi. The competitive advantage of Hanoikids against other kinds of tours is that tourists can see Hanoi through its future owners’ eyes with a wide range of itinerary options which suit each person's interest and needs. Hanoikids’ Tour department is in charge of communicating with tourists and assign suitable tours to available members.

Training
Hanoikids puts a strong emphasis on equipping their members with the knowledge of Hanoi’s history, famous tourist sites and travel tips to make sure that every Hanoikids’ member is truly a little Vietnamese ambassador. Training Department is responsible for conducting training activities and other related ones. It provides basic training to new members by giving them the chance to practice guiding at famous tourist sites; it offers advanced training to both old and new members in the form of contests like Culture Discovery, Treasure Hunting and Pro-travel mate. These contests attract lots of members and prove to be interesting and useful at the same time. Moreover, they also co-operate with professional tour guides so that they can share advice and useful travel tips to deal with unexpected situations during the tour. In terms of sharpening English skills, Hanoikids co-operates with Teach International, which is an Australian-based organization for the training of professional English teachers. The teacher trainees exchange free English and tourism lessons with Hanoikids and this makes them more prepared to become professional tour guides in the future.

Promoting strong bond among members
Internal Relations Department is in charge of promoting strong bond among Hanoikids’ members' through celebrating big events all year round like Hanoikids’ birthday, Lunar New Year, Halloween, Christmas, etc. They hold a newbie orientation after each recruitment of new members every 6 months to make new members familiar with the organization’s structure and personnel. Other sub clubs like Hanoikids Football Club, Hanoikids Music Clubare formed to connect members sharing common interest.

More...
Hanoikids have also been involved in such events and projects to contribute to our community as launching 7 series of Pieces of Culture project, a project aiming at facilitating mutual understanding between local people and foreign friends, conducting tours for tourists who want to visit charity centers; providing Children’s village of Ha Cau material and emotional support for several years.

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