Description:
http://www.volunteer-nepal.org Volunteers will help to develop village and school profiles and organize meetings with school management committees, students, and community members, in an effort to identify the further needs of the school and the community. Simply by helping to identify said needs, through data sampling and community mapping, volunteers are positively contributing because subsequent projects can thus be developed and prioritized.
During their stay in community, volunteers will also organize awareness raising activities to help promote the understanding of various environmental and development issues. Volunteers will combine artistic activities, such as dramas, painting, story and poetry writing, as well as games and competitions, with educational information.
In this way, children?s groups in particular will be highly motivated and more effective in disseminating needed education and awareness. One focus is to create newsletters for government schools, enabling the students to have a major creative outlet that can be used for confidence building and education dissemination. Volunteers will work together with VSSN and a motivated and experienced Nepali counterpart, who have experience organizing activities that mobilize students into action. These activities may cover environmental campaigns, sanitation campaigns, conservation campaigns, health issue campaigns.
Upon your arrival you will receive orientation and training appropriate to the length of your stay. During orientation, you will receive an intensive training that covers communicative Nepali, cultural information, project description and travel information etc. During your orientation phase you will be staying in Kathmandu with either a Nepali host family or in a Hotel. After completion of your orientation phase you will be escorted to your assigned placement. You will
be accommodated with a Nepali host family nearby work location. Our host family will provide you with food and board.
There is a program fee associated with our program as we don't have any donor agencies; our organization is run by volunteers' and internship fees. The program fee covers administrative charge, training, accommodation and meals during your training and placement, transportation for volunteers and supervision. We also provide scholarships to needy children and donate funds to the schools we are affiliated with.
Program fee:
One month US$500
Two months US$ 680
The other costs you will need to meet are:
Your flights, Visa (a 60 day tourist visa costs only US$ 30, the extensions are US$ 30 per 30 days with three renewals possible), vaccinations, travel insurance and corresponding airport departure taxes. You will need a weekly budget of up to US$20 to cater for all your other expenses like bottled water, personal items, beverages and entertainment.
