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WORK IN
ORPHANAGE
Poverty and ongoing
civil conflicts have seriously affected the poorest
children of Nepal. Every year, thousands of children
arrive in Katmandu searching for jobs and a future.
Unfortunately, reality of the city is quite adverse.
Many of these children work over 14-hour a day in
industry, hotels, and restaurants and many of them have
turned into street laborer.
Thousands of children
are forced to desert their home, family and education
due to the decade long Maoists insurgency. Likewise,
Hundreds of children are helpless and hapless as they
lost their parents during the Maoists war. Besides,
poverty, lack of education, and parents’ ignorance have
exacerbated their situation. The Government of Nepal has
failed and is failing to protect the children’s
fundamental rights and privileges. In such context,
orphanages have been caring and educating such
underprovided children. Volunteering in Nepal Orphanage
Project is an enriching and life changing experience for
our volunteers as well as the children. Many of our
former volunteers have reported that this project, in
particular, has been memorable and fulfilling, and has
changed the way they view the world and life. If you
have a strong enthusiasm and willingness to create a
positive impact in the lives of these innocent children,
your helping hands are always welcomed solely for the
advantage of these needy orphans.
Your Activities as a
Volunteer
As a volunteer in
orphanage project in Nepal, you will primarily assist to
boost the knowledge, skill and competence of
disadvantaged and poor children of the country. By
serving the orphans in orphanages, you will be offering
them a different perspective on life that they can carry
into adulthood.
Working in an orphanage
is a real rewarding job though your work can be
difficult at times. The orphanage centers run by our
partners accommodate 20-30 boys and girls between the
ages of 3 to 15. Although this is not an English
teaching placement, you will have the opportunity to
teach English during your stay in the orphanage and
conduct creative programs including games, music, art,
drawing, painting, health, nutrition, and sanitation. If
you are skilled in sewing, painting, tailoring,
crafting, typing, and computing, you can teach these
skills to the children as well. Volunteers’ love, care,
teaching of English language and sharing the experiences
of their own would be a great assistance to gain
confidence to them thereby making their future more
secure, livable and prosperous.
Volunteers Skills
Required
No specific skills and
qualifications are required. However, you must be at
least 16 years of old. Volunteers joining orphanage
projects should have love and passion for serving poor
kids. Volunteers should also be flexible, self-motivated
with open mind to learn and serve to the people of new
culture and religion.
Project Location
Kathmandu
TEACHING ENGLISH IN NEPAL
Most of the time,
volunteers in the teaching sector work as instructors of
English of small school children. Teaching in Nepali
schools as volunteers is very charming, fulfilling and
rewarding. Teaching placements are available in both
public and private boarding schools. English teaching
volunteers do not necessarily be native English
speakers. Fluent English speakers with or without formal
teaching experience may also contribute greatly to the
children’s educational development. Our teaching
placements are available in various schools of Kathmandu,
The main resources that you will have in classroom are a
blackboard, book and a peace of chalk. Of course, you
yourself are the most reliable resource for English
teaching in Nepal. As a CSDN volunteer you will give
your students career chances a boost and watching them
grow during your time overseas. You will have the
opportunity to gain the confidence of the students and
their guardians thereby becoming like a member of the
local community.
Teaching placement is
not available in July and August in any other area
outside of the Katmandu valley because of summer
vacation. CSDN may arrange teaching placements in nearby
villages of Katmandu Valley during July and August. Most
of the schools in Nepal follow a fixed English
curriculum for English. Volunteers will teach courses in
collaboration with local English teachers. Many of our
past volunteers have also organized informal English
classes in local villages.
Your Activities as a
Volunteer:
As a volunteer, you
will work in public school with boys and girls in a
class size of about 20 to 35. Volunteer teach 2-3 hours
a day, Monday to Saturday, working with children ranging
in age from 6-15. Also, volunteers may be asked to teach
English in a variety of schools and assist Nepal’s most
destitute citizens. Along with English lessons, you may
teach other skills like game, painting, music,
sanitation, computers and arts. Most schools in Nepal
follow fixed courses for teaching English. Volunteers
teach school courses in collaboration with local
English teachers
English teaching prior
experience is desired but not mandatory for English
teaching volunteers. They need to have good
communication skill in English but need not necessarily
be a native. Volunteers are required to have strong
eagerness to help the people of Nepal. Volunteers should
also be flexible, self-motivated, open to new cultures
and a strong willingness to learn and take new
initiatives.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION WORK
Nepal’s natural
environment has been deteriorating day by day under the
growing demand of trees. In the past few years, thousand
of hectors of land have been disappeared due to the soil
erosion. To promote conservation work in Nepal,
Your Activities as a
Volunteer:
Work in the nursery
includes seed collection, sowing, mulching, and
watering, trimming, weeding, and related work. The
nursery projects produce seedlings that are later
distributed to local schools, communities, and villagers
for planting in community fields in free of cost.
Nursery managers for CSDN guide all volunteers during
the project period. Volunteers’ effort and contribution
may create a positive impact for the promotion and
protection of environmental conservation.
While Volunteering
overseas in conservation sector in Nepal, you may find
yourself on a working holiday in a spectacular location
with local people who carry out wildlife conservation,
environmental conservation or historical preservation.
Volunteer Skills
Required:
Work in this
conservation project may need physical efforts and
strengths. You don't need to be experienced in
conservation abroad, just bring self-reliance,
enthusiasm, motivation to conservation works, patience
and an open mind – as conservation also means doing the
vital maintenance work to keep your project running
Project Location
Kathmandu
HEALTH AND SANITATION
The majority of Nepal’s
people experience severe health problems due to the lack
of health care education, medical services, and
resources in Nepal. Most of the country’s health care
centers are centralized in the capital and few other
cities of the country. A Majority of the rural people in
the country are unable to receive proper health
treatment service due to the lack of sufficient
treatment centers and health workers in rural areas.
CSDN invites compassionate volunteers to bolster lessen
this problem in an effort to boost the quality of health
care for disadvantaged Nepali people.
Moreover, the
doctor-patient ratio is very poor, with one doctor
caring for approximately 16,000 patients-even in cities.
The lack of availability of qualified health care
workers has resulted in many health problems in Nepal.
Your activities as a
volunteer:
Volunteers for health
care projects assist local doctors and medical staff
with the treatment of patients. Volunteers are also
involved in other hospital activities such as record
keeping, sanitation, nutrition, and patient education.
Whatever your level of experience in health and medicine
is, your time, devotion and skills are all that is
needed to make a difference to the lives of diseased and
disadvantaged people of Nepal.
Volunteer Skills
Required:
Any volunteer
interested in joining our health care program must have
proof of certification as a medical student, nurse,
doctor, or other medical-related experience. (Note:
Volunteers without professional medical credentials are
not allowed to work in this program because of risks
involved.)
Project Location
Kathmandu
CULTURE RESTORATION PROJECT
Nepal is the birth
place of Buddha, who is popularly known as the light of
Asia, the founder of Buddhism. So, Buddhism is widely
respected, adopted and promoted in the country. Nepal
boasts countless Monasteries, Stupas and Buddhist
pilgrimages. However, the physical infrastructures of
these monuments are being deteriorated. Due to the
dearth of fund and resources these historically and
culturally significant monuments could not be renovated.
CSDN offers unique Monastery Renovation Project in Nepal
where most compassionate helping hands are always
welcomed in this sacred project.
The Renovation project
aims to build, reconstruct, renovate and restore ancient
Buddhist temples (Stupas) and monasteries where
resources are lacking. we have been working with local
communities to restore culturally important structures,
and promoting responsible tourism through volunteer
vacations. Our innovative programs to restore Buddhist
temples in Nepal allow people from any background and
skill level to join the local communities in their
restoration efforts.
The result is a truly
rewarding having unique travel and cultural experiences.
You will have an opportunity to put your heart, hands
and mind to preserve and protect the world's great
cultural heritage. In turn, our partner communities are
provided with jobs, job training and a renewal of
community pride.
Your Activities as a
Volunteer:
The volunteers will be
engaged in the activities such as renovation, painting,
and gardening. The volunteers will work 4-5 hours a day,
and will be living with the Buddhist families where
volunteers can feel and experience the rural setting of
Buddhism. CSDN works in such places where the need of
renovation is felt. Buddhism, the philosophy of
non-violence and peace, is more pertinent in the present
context because the world, today, is undergoing through
massive war, terror, destruction, obliteration and so
on. This unique renovation project may also appeal for
world peace and harmony.
In this program,
volunteers can travel around Buddhist villages and
discover ancient monasteries-joining Buddhist rituals:
mediation, chants, and traditions. Volunteers will
experience the peaceful life of these religions and
renovate the old and neglected monasteries. In addition
to your project work, this will be an invaluable
opportunity for you to practice and experience Buddhism
and to learn the peaceful and non-violence of philosophy
of Buddhism.
Volunteer Skills
Required:
Volunteers joining this
project should have strong compassion and motivation to
work for Buddhist people and to renovate the
monasteries, stupas etc. Since the renovation and
construction work demands some physical effort and
strength, you have to be physically strong and perfect.
Besides, a willingness to learn and respect Buddhism and
Buddhist culture are highly anticipated.
Project Location
Kathmandu
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE PROGRAM
CSDN provides a 2-week
orientation program comprised of language training,
cultural tours, village hiking, visits to popular
tourist sites, The main aim of our unique language and
cultural orientation is to teach volunteers about local
language, culture, customs, and ways of life in fabulous
Nepal. By joining our 2-week language program, you will
gain new insights into the rich and diverse life of
Nepal and its people.
An important part of
this program is the home stay, where our volunteers live
with warm and welcoming host families, eat Nepalese
food, observe village culture, and become a first-hand
participant in village life. Additionally, during the
home stay program, volunteers will have some project
training with the opportunity to observe and practice
tasks within the local village that are related to their
work and designed as placement preparation
Second
Week Program
After a week of
language classes in world famous Katmandu, participants
will leave for their stay in a nearby picturesque
village. Our home and village stay locations are
carefully selected to present the best possible
experience with Nepal’s unique culture, customs, and
people. Villagers are friendly and eager to welcome our
volunteers. Daily life in these quaint villages is
untouched by modern civilization. Here, people still
practice traditional ways of farming, cooking, working,
and other important daily activities. The village stay
program is fascinating because it offers the most
accurate picture of real Nepal. During your home stay,
you will continue to practice your new language skills,
enjoying the cross-cultural opportunities available as
you walk through each day with your host family. |
