CHILDREN’S WINTER CAMP

Children’s Development is one of the major programs of our partner. The Goal of the Children’s development program is to protect the rights of all children by providing them access to basic quality education, developing their life skills (creativity, leadership etc.) & providing access to health & hygiene services.
Even in these days in Nepal, schools are focused mainly on examination and are not doing enough to develop life skills like creativity and leadership for children. Teachers only focus on reading and writing – rote learning. Creativity and individual differences in children are not explored. Due to the busy work schedule of parents, most of the children do not have an opportunity to socialize and be creative. That’s the reason why, these types of camps are so essential to provide life skills development opportunities to children aged between 5-12 years old. We work only with disadvantaged communities as these families cannot afford to take their children to holidays during their Winter & Summer breaks. Children don’t have a proper structure and environment at home, or a school to develop their innate talents. Children's camp (at winter and summer breaks) is one of the best places to explore their innate talents such as creativity and leadership. In this work camp, national & international volunteers will facilitate different types of fun and creative activities for the children where our partner works.

Objectives:
· To provide unique opportunities for overall development (social, emotional, physical, mental, creativity) & provide fun-time for children aged between 5 and 12 utilizing their vacation period.
· To promote the friendship, understanding and solidarity among local young volunteers and cross-national volunteers.
· To provide an opportunity to understand and appreciate the Nepalese culture and traditions via cultural immersion.

Work / Activities: The volunteers will conduct children's camp to promote their innate talents & creativity for their overall physical, mental, social & emotional development. During the children’s camp volunteers will prepare sessions and take classes on following topics: Physical exercises, team building, drawing, colouring & painting, art, craft & origami, singing and dancing, drama, music, hiking, teaching language, and so on.