Environmental Awareness program Volunteer in Nepal

The hot issues related to environment in this 21st century around the globe is a gradually changing climate and its negative effective to the human being is to be sensitized in global perspectives through experts and volunteers activities.

The activities mainly happen in schools and community people about conserving environment in sustainable manner. In schools the volunteer instruct two to four hours each day(except Saturday) about the negative impact of the climate change such as Mountain and glaciers melting, Mountain Lake out bursting and environment pollution including water, air, sound and garbage pollution to the schools children. The volunteer also teach and make alert about the controlling measures of climate change and environment pollution. For the practical feeling to student, volunteers can take short field trips to children to such places which are contaminated and located near surroundings of community.

Another volunteer program is occurred in actual community village by incorporating all youth, adult men and women. These activities are awareness building and practical field work which is done by collaborating volunteers and local community organizations. Volunteers give speech about different environment pollutions of water, air, sound and other garbage to local people specially its long term negative impact and curbing it by local initiatives such as recycling water, plastic, burning house litters and so on. Likewise, to make environment green various planting activities like building toilet pit, garbage management, smokeless stoves, planting flower tree, fruits trees and other afforesting are held by direct involvement of local women and men. Furthermore the community forest management knowledge is also provided them by local club and volunteers.

Responsibility: -

-          Volunteers will have to take environmental awareness class at the school in Nepal for 2 to 4 hours each day, Sunday to Friday.

-          Organize the program about awareness about the effect of pollution/global warming by incorporating all youth, adult men and women in the community

-          Discuss and give suggestions regarding creating "green" clubs, planting a flower plants, planting trees, garbage management, recycling plastic, water harvesting, making a smokeless stove, building a toilet pit, awareness boards etc.

-          Volunteers also can organize forest management programs.

-          Volunteers have to help community in bringing awareness about cleanliness and sanitation.

Skills required: Good English (but not of very high standard). If volunteer have qualification and experience in related field then it would be plus point. But the main thing is s/he should be interested to serve people heartily, devoted to protect environment. Volunteers must observe the rules and regulations of the society and be respectful as well as polite to the teachers of school and local people as well.

Program Dates - Flexible i.e. the minimum time for the program is 2 weeks and the maximum length of stay is 5 months.

Accommodations - Volunteers will have either home stay with traditional Nepali families (host family). The accommodation is typically Nepali and based by Western standards, often with traditional Nepali toilets and showers.

Food - Breakfast at around 7 am which consists of a cup of tea and biscuits. There after lunch is served at 9:00 to 9:30 am and is usually dal/bhat (rice, lentils, and vegetables). Dinner is at 6:30 to 7:00pm and is once more Dal/Bhat.

Suggestion: Volunteers can bring any documentary about related field to display in local village for awareness. It is advisable to bring some stuff for your own – if possible. (e.g. pens, sheets, books)

Project Location: Large town with all basic facilities (Chitwan, Pokhara)

Program Cost: Click here and get in details.

Please visit us: www.fun-nepal.org  for more information and get various volunteer opportunities in Nepal

Friendship United Nepal (FUN-Nepal)
Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal
Post Box No: 24886
Tel:  +977 01 4334798   
Cell: +977- 9841492062
Email: info@fun-nepal.org 
Website: http://www.fun-nepal.org

Cultural Exchange & Home stay Program

Home stays and cultural exchange programmers can be arranged in most areas of Nepal with our lots host families. Participants will be placed with a Nepali family in a small rural village for the duration of their stay. This provides the volunteers with an excellent opportunity to learn about all aspects of Nepali culture, lifestyle, language, food and people. Volunteers should remember that this is a cultural exchange and that an effort to offer some knowledge of their own home culture and customs to the family with whom they stay is appreciated. During their stay, volunteers will attend 2 hours
of language lessons in the morning and in the afternoon. They will also have the opportunity to visit and help out at the local school. Home stay programmers are best organized from August to November which is the time when most large local festivals take place. This makes for an overall more exciting experience for the volunteer. Nepali culture is distinctively friendly and open and participants are made to feel as though they are part of the family. FUN-Nepal local coordinator will be on hand to help volunteers.

Skills required: No need of such specific qualification but if volunteers show high interest in learning new things (our culture, new place, our language, life style etc) then they can obtain full pleasure within that period.

Program Dates - Flexible i.e. the minimum time for the program is 2 weeks and the maximum length of stay is 5 months.

Accommodations - Volunteers will have either home stay with traditional Nepali families (host family) or have their own room in their women empowerment clubs. The accommodation is typically Nepali and based by Western standards, often with traditional Nepali toilets and showers.

Food - Breakfast at around 7 am which consists of a cup of tea and biscuits. There after lunch is served at 9:00 to 9:30 am and is usually dal/bhat (rice, lentils, and vegetables). Dinner is at 6:30 to 7:00pm and is once more Dal/Bhat.

Suggestion:  The program is namely cultural EXCHANGE so volunteers can bring their cultural photographs and pictures of their family and where they live.

 Project Location: Tropical village not far from large town with all basic facilities.(Kathmandu, Chitwan, Pokhara -If needed we can arrange placement all over Nepal)

Please visit us: www.fun-nepal.org  for more information and get various volunteer opportunities in Nepal

For contact:
Friendship United Nepal (FUN-Nepal)
Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal
Post Box No: 24886
Tel:  +977 01 4334798    
Cell: +977- 9841492062
Email: info@fun-nepal.org 
Website: http://www.fun-nepal.org

Health Post & Sanitation Issues

The medical health program will mainly be in community hospital, community health post in rural village and other urban based hospital. The volunteer will help to hospital staff, share knowledge and vice-versa. Moreover, the volunteers’ duty will also be to aware local people about the health issues like making environment unpolluted and keeping house neat and clean as well as adjoining places. Likewise, the volunteer can also launch health campaign of first aid treatment and raising awareness of fatal diseases of HIV/ADS, Malaria and Swine flu as well as reproductive health at community level.
The Sanitation program mostly will be held in rural village of Nepal where the people have very low knowledge of sanitation in terms of hygienic food, washing clothes, taking bath and cleaning up home and surroundings. So, to provide appropriate information, the volunteers impart knowledge to local community women, men, children, and mobilize them too.
The both above mentioned activities have not strict timetable about volunteering in community. However, the office prescribes almost 3 to 4 hours a day. Apart from that, we can provide extra service of teaching opportunities at school’s student mainly the burning health problems like HIV/ ADS and reproductive health to adolescence according to volunteers’ interest.
During their placement, volunteers will stay with a local family located within a half-hour to an hour from the post. Placements are available near Pokhara, Chitwan and within the Kathmandu Valley.

Responsibility

•Assist in first aid/ primary care and General Medicine.
•If volunteer is qualified then check up general dentistry.

• Volunteer can share previous experiences in Health Care.

•Volunteer can take the class of awareness about cleanliness and sanitation, drug abuses, HIV/AIDS in Community Health Center.

Skills required: You must have good English (but not of very high standard). If volunteer have qualification and experience about medical field then it would be plus point. But the main thing is s/he should be interested to serve people heartily. Volunteers must observe the rules and regulations of the health center and be respectful as well as polite to the staffs and patients as well.

Program Dates - Flexible i.e. the minimum time for the program is 2 weeks and the maximum length of stay is 5 months.

Accommodations - Volunteers will have either home stay with traditional Nepali families (host family). The accommodation is typically Nepali and based by Western standards, often with traditional Nepali toilets and showers.

Food - Breakfast at around 7 am which consists of a cup of tea and biscuits. There after lunch is served at 9:00 to 9:30 am and is usually dal/bhat (rice, lentils, and vegetables). Dinner is at 6:30 to 7:00pm and is once more Dal/Bhat.

Suggestion: Volunteers can bring any documentary about related field to display in health center or in local village for awareness. It is advisable to bring some stuff for your own – if possible. (e.g. pens, sheets, medical instruments, first aid kit, medical books…)

Project Location: Large town with all basic facilities (Chitwan, Pokhara)

Please visit us: www.fun-nepal.org  for more information and get various volunteer opportunities in Nepal

Friendship United Nepal (FUN-Nepal)
Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal
Post Box No: 24886
Tel:  +977 01 4334798    
Cell: +977- 9841492062
Email: info@fun-nepal.org 
Website: http://www.fun-nepal.org

Teaching various subjects in Schools

:  In this program, volunteers teach different subjects such as English, Science, Math’s, and Social Science and so on depending on school curriculum (primarily English) at government school. Depending on the school, volunteers will either teach independently in class or with another Nepali helper teacher.
Volunteers teach between two to four hours of 45-minute classes each period, six days a week (Saturday is holiday). Volunteers generally create programs to stimulate classroom lessons and improve students’ conversational English though different teaching methods. Volunteers engaging in this program will have some guidance of effective teaching in Nepali style although the volunteers can demonstrate new model of their own teaching style if that is applicable in Nepali government schools.
Prior to the placement, volunteers will receive Nepali language and cultural training. During their placement, volunteers will stay with a local traditional Nepali family located close to the school.
After completing the volunteer job at government schools in Nepal, volunteer, students and school staffs can stay keep in touch through various contact information source so that the next time the school’s family would welcome again to volunteering at schools which make lasting relationship among each other.

Responsibility:

• Teaching and tutoring children in English, Computer or volunteer can choose any subject in which they are good at.
• Developing a creative environment for children through crafts, games and sports.
• Organizing hygiene awareness or cleanliness and sanitation program for students.

• Teach English (2-3 hours a day) in the school.
• Organizing games, drawing, singing, dancing, and other creative activities.

• Taking kids on educational tours and organize seminar/presentation about new places may be of your own country.
• Helping kids to do homework, and help them to increase their extra knowledge besides they get academically.

Skills required: You must have good English (but not of very high standard). If volunteer have any related experience in teaching school will be given plus point. Volunteers must observe the rules and regulations of the school and be respectful as well as polite to the teachers and local people.

Program Dates – Flexible i.e. the minimum time for the program is 2 weeks and the maximum length of stay is 5 months.

Accommodations - Volunteers will have either home stay with traditional Nepali families (host family) or have their own room in that school hostel. The accommodation is typically Nepali and based by Western standards, often with traditional Nepali toilets and showers.

Food - Breakfast at around 7 am which consists of a cup of tea and biscuits. There after lunch is served at 9:00 to 9:30 am and is usually dal/bhat (rice, lentils, and vegetables). Dinner is at 6:30 to 7:00pm and is once more Dal/Bhat.

Suggestion: Volunteers can bring along teaching materials such as picture books, instruments, flash cards, art supplies, toy games and songs.

Project Location: Tropical village not far from large town with all basic facilities.(Kathmandu, Chitwan, Pokhara -If needed we can arrange placement all over Nepal)

Friendship United Nepal (FUN-Nepal)

Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal
Post Box No: 24886
Tel:  +977 01 4334798    
Cell: +977- 9841492062
Email: info@fun-nepal.org 
Website: http://www.fun-nepal.org

Volunteering at Orphanage in Nepal

Taking care of children who are parent less and homeless is indeed the pure worship of God as a human being and it is felt a real humanitarian work in worldwide. Volunteers will be placed in an orphanage where they will live with the children. The children are mostly between the ages of four and eighteen, and the children may or may not have a basic understanding of English. The general role of the volunteer will be to act as an older sibling: to take care for, look after and encourage them to participate different extracurricular activities such as music, dancing, playing game, and drawing and so on. The skills instructed by volunteer who make the children independent in terms of income is worthwhile.

Responsibility:

·         Helping children in increasing awareness towards cleanliness by: brushing teeth, showering, and establishing and maintaining personal hygiene.

·         Organizing games, drawing lessons, singing, dancing, and other creative educational activities and extracurricular activities.

·         Teach English/Math/Science in orphanages or schools (when the children of the orphanage go to their respective schools during the day).

·         Help in doing children’s homework; monitoring academic progress.

·         Help to take care of those small children who cannot go school. Help in food distribution, kitchen work/duties and also design other activities or programs for the children.

HOW YOU CAN HELP ORPHANS?

·         By sponsoring a child.

·         By sponsoring a program.

·         By fund raising.

·         By donating money to the child education program.

·         By volunteering your time to the orphans.

We also accept donation from people who wants to donate the following:

·         Books & School Supplies.

·         Old Clothes, toys, indoor games.

·         Medicine (Vitamins, scabies cream/ lotion, lice shampoo, band aid etc.) Computer, Cameras, musical instruments.

Skills required: You must have good English (but not of very high standard). No other skills or qualifications are required to volunteer in the project. Volunteers must observe the rules and regulations of the monastery and be respectful as well as polite to the teachers, monks and local people.

Program Dates - Flexible i.e. the minimum time for the program is 2 weeks and the maximum length of stay is 5 months.

Accommodations - Volunteers will have either home stay with traditional Nepali families (host family) or have their own room in their orphanage. The accommodation is typically Nepali and based by Western standards, often with traditional Nepali toilets and showers.

Food - Breakfast at around 7 am which consists of a cup of tea and biscuits. There after lunch is served at 9:00 to 9:30 am and is usually dal/bhat (rice, lentils, and vegetables). Dinner is at 6:30 to 7:00pm and is once more Dal/Bhat.

Suggestion: Advisable to bring some staff for the kids – If possible. (e.g. pens, colors, sheets, picture books, instruments, flash cards, art supplies, and songs, small gifts for children)

Project Location: large town with all basic facilities (Kathmandu, Chitwan, Pokhara).

Program Cost: Please visit : http://fun-nepal.org/volunteer-program-cost

Friendship United Nepal (FUN-Nepal)
Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal
Post Box No: 24886
Tel:  +977 01 4334798    
Cell: +977- 9841492062
Email: info@fun-nepal.org 
Website: http://www.fun-nepal.org