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Countries/States Served:
Nepal, NH
People Utilized or Employed:
Trainable Volunteers, Social Work, Nursing
Types of Students Allowed:
Medical Students, Dental Students, Nursing Students |
Program Length:
Short Term (Less than 1 month) and Long Term (Greater than 1 month)
Language Skills:
English, English, English
Religious Affiliations:
University Affiliations:
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Current Volunteer Opportunities (Unpaid Positions)
Teaching English in the school needed for
1 to 3 months
Opportunity Description:
The children in the Nepal begin learning English in grade four in our village school and grade one in private school, so it's not a surprise that most of the student have basic level of English. The benefits of learning English from a native speaker are inspiring for the young children.
We place volunteers in rural elementary schools an hour outside of Kathmandu to assist the local teachers with their English classes and other subjects. These volunteers are able to experience living in rural villages and will observe the true meaning of "community." As a volunteer with our Teach English Program, you will have the opportunity to give these children the education and support they need and deserve.
Total Number of Volunteers Needed:
10
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Environmental Work: needed for
1 to 3 months
Opportunity Description:
We will provide you with the training to enable you to teach environmental education in a village school and in the village community. You will have the chance to live with a Nepali family near the school, and you will teach environmental education for about 2 to 3 hours a day, 6 days a week (Saturday is the day off). You will also be involved in sharing your ideas, skills and knowledge about environmental issues with local NGOs (non-governmental organizations), with youth clubs or women's groups. You will set up groups within the school and groups of people within the local community to focus on environmental work while you are here and to maintain the work after you have gone. Your areas of expertise and the needs of the village community will define the environmental awareness projects you set up. Here are examples of some of the projects we have initiated: making a flower garden, planting trees, garbage management, paper recycling, making a smokeless stove, making a toilet pit using local materials.
Nepal is a land-locked country. 85% of its land is covered by mountains. Nepal is also the second richest country of the world for water resources. There is great potential for hydroelectricity but, due to the lack of financial support and lack of political consciousness, Nepal depends largely on wood fuel. Every year thousands and thousands of trees get cut down. Deforestation of the mountains is a major problem. It causes landslides and floods. Along with deforestation, high levels of water and air pollution are ruining our environment. Only through education can we begin to tackle these issues.
VCD Nepal aims to improve the quality of Nepal's environment through
Plantation
Sanitation
Creating Green club groups within the community
Garbage management
Making flower gardens
Paper recycling
Draining systems for polluted water
Making smokeless stoves
Total Number of Volunteers Needed:
5
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Work at Hospital/ Health Post: needed for
1 to 3 months
Opportunity Description:
We will provide you with the necessary training and information to enable you to promote health and sanitation at a local level in Nepal. You will have the chance to live with a Nepali family near the community health post or hospital. You will be involved with work at the health post or in the hospital in the morning and evening. Additionally, volunteers may also give classes in health education to children at the local school for 1 to 2 hours each day (Saturday is the day off). Every year many Nepali people die or suffer from different kinds of diseases simply due to lack of health education and access to adequate healthcare resources. The sick in the mountain regions or remote villages sometimes die before they get first aid or before a doctor can give them a diagnosis. Because of poor transportation, patients often have to be carried by hand in bamboo baskets to the nearest health post, often many miles away from their village.
VCD Nepal is working to address these issues by sponsoring community health initiatives in rural areas. For this project, we need volunteers who can train and share their ideas with Nepali health workers as well as provide direct health care services. Also we need to develop resources and improve facilities that exist, and to create new ones where needed. If time permits, volunteers may work with youth clubs or women's groups in the community, providing assistance to set up and deliver First Aid and General Health Programs.
We prefer to use volunteers with a medical background, students or health workers, for this program. However, we can accept others with a real interest for work in this field. In addition to assigning volunteers to village placements, twice a year, VCD Nepal sets up a health camp in a chosen area of Nepal. We gather equipment, volunteers and contributions to provide this much-needed service. Individuals with special knowledge in the following areas are always needed.
Primary care and General Medicine
Pediatrics
Ophthalmology/ Optometry
General Dentistry/ Oral Surgery
Health Education
Gynecology and Women's Health
Total Number of Volunteers Needed:
5
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Work in an orphanage: needed for
1 to 3 months
Opportunity Description:
VCD Nepal puts volunteers on an attachment to an orphanage where they will live with children assisting them in their daily routine. The children are usually between 3 and 16 years of age and will have a basic understanding of English. You will teach the orphanage children between 7am and 9am, and from 6pm to 8pm. You will provided with training to help you to teach the children general life skills, and to take classes about environmental issues, health and sanitation, as well as arts and music.
VCD Nepal is a small charity, working to change the lives of poor children in orphanages and to provide them with an opportunity to become active in the community. We need your help to succeed.
You can help the orphanage children in the following ways:
Volunteering to work in an orphanage
Helping the children with their school work
Donating money for their education
Fundraising
Encouraging the children
Total Number of Volunteers Needed:
10
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Current Job Openings (Paid Positions)
Work with rural women's group: needed in
Chitwan
Job Description:
Volunteers are placed in a village, usually living with a family. In the village you can focus your time to work with women's groups and mothers' groups, assisting with activities such as plantation, informal education classes, tailoring training and income-generating programs. You can share your experience with them, and we will provide you with training to help you.
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Mission Statement: (See Web Site For Updated Information)
Volunteer Program in Nepal
VCD Nepal is a non profit volunteer organization. We provide an opportunity to participate in a variety of educational and community aid programs. We provide Nepali Culture and training for foreign volunteers who wish to render their services to Nepal. We send trained volunteer to Orphanages, schools and communities to generate awareness regarding environmental issue, orphans care, sanitation, income generating initiative, teaching English and health care. This will give you a chance to make an important contribution to the people of Nepal and while doing so gain an in depth experience of the country and its culture, that will stay with you the rest of your life.
The mission of our volunteer program is to offer meaningful volunteer opportunities for international volunteers and to seek sustainable solutions for education, health, conservation, and development issues through volunteering. We hope to achieve this goal by offering community orientated volunteer programs where the efforts of our volunteers go directly to the poor people and their communities.
:: The Program
- Teaching English at the school
- Working in an orphanage
- Work at the health center or hospital
- Home stay/cultural exchange
- Teaching at the Monastery
- Trekking and teaching in the mounatain
Placements:
Our Placements are available in Kathmandu Valley, Pokhara and Chitwan, all of which are near to the main city. Volunteer can look up the places to get more of a feel for the areas and we can discuss where you are to stay when you arrive according to your needs and also determined upon arrival with considerations of safety of volunteers and availability.
Program Requirements:
Volunteers for this program must: be 16 years or older
have no major health problems
We do not ask for any formal qualifications from our volunteers. All we ask is that you have a genuine desire to help people and are committed to seeing the programme through.
VCD Nepal
..Global volunteers for Nepal
Post Box: 23889
Thamel, Kathmandu,
Nepal
Tel: (+977) 9851017902
Email: info@vcdnepal.org
katiesco@gmail.com
www.vcdnepal.org
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