📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Volunteers Initiative Nepal (VIN)
💼 What the programme involves
Participate in a project which aims to reduce Nepal s dependence on the more demanding and less profit- able traditional terrace farming in exchange for agro- forestry farming. This is a form of land cultivation where crops are grown among trees. It provides a greater biodiversity and greater harvests. This is your chance to help ease traditional subsistence farmers onto new methods which greatly improves the quality of their lives. You will be placed in the project living quarters.Daily activities- Work under skilled Nepali farmers instructions, cultivating land and engaging in agroforestry.- Help maintain the living quarters and surroundings.- Carry out research activities.- Teach techniques of agroforestry (for experts in agriculture).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Nepali Standard at host family in the working community
📍 About the location
Jitpur community of Kathmandu District, which is only about 11 km away from main ring road to Balaju, Kathmandu. Nuakot and Okhaldhunga, a beautiful and hilly district, is located in Everest Region of Nepal. It has limited developmental activities and facilities. From Kathmandu, the shortest bus route is about 250 km which is rough and takes one day to reach there.
⚠️ Requirements
Basic English, knowledge about project
ℹ️ Additional information
Fee for four weeks volunteer program is 505euro and each additional week 60euro, Fee for 4 weeks internship is 570euro and each additional week is 65euro.