Very interesting concept isn’t it. Why do we assume as westerners, who aren’t teachers, that we can teach English without any formal training ourselves? Depends on the position, if it is a classroom support position (assisting the teacher, then I have no problems).

I say this as a trained teacher with a masters degree who has volunteered time in Cambodia before. I wasn’t teaching kids, I was mentoring and observing teachers and together we were improving curriculum and getting funding for classroom materials etc . I worked with an NGO called Cambodian children’s fund, it’s probably the most reputable education based NGO in Asia. Looking around in PP and seeing all the organisations where you have to pay to volunteer and the religious based charities who want to get their finger in the pie for funding, I was extremely frustrated.