English Teaching

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Nepal Culture Education Children Culture Education +1 Permanent

About the project

English Teaching

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Nepal is an underdeveloped country. Years of political conflict, poverty and lack of education have prevented the Nepalese people from getting the chances they deserve. Our partner believes it’s their responsibility to help and try to improve those conditions, but improvements take time. To better a society, volunteers must first live in it. In order to change a country’s conditions they must first experience those conditions first-hand. Only after experiencing them they can share their knowledge through teaching, sharing ad interacting, which can in turn have a lasting effect on the local population. Volunteers might discover that living with a local family and adjusting to the Nepali lifestyle will have a lasting effect on them too.

💼 What the programme involves

Mainly, the volunteer will be teaching English to children between 6 and 15 years of age. However, since schools are always in need of teachers, it’s possible for the volunteer to also teach Math, Science and Computer Science. In Nepal school goes from 10 am to 4 pm. The volunteer will teach 3-5 classes each day, with each class lasting 45 minutes. Saturdays are holidays, and Fridays are half-holidays. When not in school, volunteers will share their everyday life with the host family.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will live with a Nepali family close to the school, and experience their hospitality, friendliness and immerse themselves in their unique lifestyle. They’ll be welcomed as a member of the family and of the local community. At least one member of the family will speak English. Nepali houses are simple, with basic facilities (squat toilet, shower, kitchen, etc). Most families DO NOT have hot showers, but most of them have western style toilets. But they should not expect to find the same facilities as in your home country. They’ll get their ow room and the family will respect their privacy. In order to make the most of their experience in Nepal, our partner encourages to interact and socialize as much as possible with their host family and take part in their daily activities.

🍲 Food

Volunteers will be served food twice a day: breakfast around 9-10 am ad dinner around 7-8 pm. They’ll soon realize that tea is the most popular beverage in Nepal: whenever you visit a family you’ll be offered a cup.

📍 About the location

Depending on their interest and willingness, they can choose to stay in a variety of different places: in or around the Kathmandu Valley, Pokhara, Tanahun, Lamjung, Chitwan, Makwanpur or Nawalparasi. They could stay in a secluded village, where people live in a more traditional way and provide for themselves through farming, which is also a great opportunity to explore the real rural Nepal, or they could opt for a more urban and modern Nepal experience in one of the bustling and fast-growing cities, like Kathmandu or Pokhara.

⚠️ Requirements

Volunteers must be at least 18 years. No formal education is required, but relevant qualifications are very much appreciated. Positive attitude, respect and an open mind are obviously very important, as well as an interest in discovering the Nepali culture.

ℹ️ Additional information

Office registration fee: 250€ - To be paid at our partner’s office, covers airport pick up and drop off, 3 days orientation in Kathmandu, transportation from Kathmandu to the camp and back.

Extra fee: 200€/month - To be paid either to the local coordinator or to the our partner, covers meals and accommodation during their stay in Nepal.

Long term volunteering lasts 2 to 5 months. It takes some time to get used to the different lifestyle, so we advise to stay for as long as possible. Camps start the first Friday of every month.

What to bring

Seasonal clothing, sleeping bag, comfortable shoes, mosquito net, music player, reading material, photographs from your country. Pencils, pens, notebooks and textbooks for the kids are also greatly appreciated, and can be bought for a reasonable price in Kathmandu prior to your departure.

Before the project starts, our partner strongly advises that volunteers attend our 3-day orientation seminar at the Training Center in Kathmandu, which aims to provide basic knowledge about the Nepalese education system, culture, dress, food, as well as detailed information about the project, the school, Nepali language classes and much more. The orientation seminar starts on the first Monday of every month, but can be arranged according to each volunteer’s travel itineraries. During the orientation they’ll be staying at our dormitory in Kathmandu along with the other volunteers waiting to go to their respective placements. Every morning and evening they’ll eat together with our staff. Also, a full day culture and heritage tour in Kathmandu is included, to visit a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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