📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Volunteers Initiative Nepal (VIN) is an NGO with the mission to empower marginalised communities through inclusive and holistic development programmes. This is done through the following project areas: • Education • Health and Environment • Economy • Basic Infrastructure Within the above project areas, we conduct the following programmes: • Women’s Empowerment • Children’s Development • Youth Empowerment • Disaster Risk Reduction • Environment and Conservation • Public Health and Medical Care https://www.volunteersinitiativenepal.org/
💼 What the programme involves
VIN believes that equal access to education, the protection, and promotion of
children’s rights, holistic/ overall development of children, and childhood development.
That is why VIN has a Child Sponsorship Program in which people from all around the
the world can make a donation in order to help a child from poor family background to
access schools and education.
It is important to us that as an organization to encourage children to go to school and we
are looking for volunteers who can help us with that.
Activities
• Visit the children who get sponsored, get to know the children, take pictures and write
updates about the children and then help us send these updates to the people who
have sponsored the child.
• Conduct creative arts expression and life skills classes.
• Conduct research about some children referred from school or local government who
really need support for their education.
• Search and contact individuals, organizations, and companies who are interested and
can sponsor those children and confirm for the sponsorship.
• Conduct tutoring classes for the sponsored children on a cluster basis.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers stay with the host family/hostel identified by VIN. The living conditions at the host family/ hostel are simple and basic. Male and female volunteers will share the same living area but have separate sleeping rooms. The volunteers sleep on simple beds/mattresses. Please bring your sleeping bag. The food will be provided in Nepali standard i.e. dal Bhat (rice, lentil soup, vegetables, pickle, eggs).
📍 About the location
VIN works in three different districts Kathmandu, Nuwakot, and Okhaldhunga are the three districts where VIN works. If you arrive early or wish to stay in Nepal after your volunteer period, VIN offers weekend travel tours to Chitwan Jungle Safari, Pokhara, and Nagarkot at reasonable prices.
ℹ️ Additional information
Fee for four weeks volunteering is 625 Euro, then 85 Euro for each extra week. Placements out of Kathmandu Valley cost extra depending on travel distance.