📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
(FFN) Friendship Foundation Nepal
💼 What the programme involves
In cooperation with an experienced team and local villagers, volunteers will cultivate many different plants on a big farmland.
The land also contains a fish farm and is planned to be run in a way that provides organic products.
Afterwards we sell the production and gain profit. The profit is meant to help the local community with their everyday challenges. Houses could be repaired, schools improved and emergency funds established. In addition to that, an important part of this project will be the interaction between the international volunteers and the villagers. Volunteers can come up with creative ideas to gain environmental awareness among the locals. They can play sports with the local schoolchildren and teach them about their homes. Vice versa the local community will be pleased to give the volunteers an insight view into the Nepalese culture.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Simple accommodation in a camp house or with a local family. A camping pad and sleeping bag are required. Showers with cold water are available in your place.
🍲 Food
Volunteers will have three traditional meals a day, mostly the Nepalese national dish Dhal Bhat and take part in the cooking process and all chores. It is also possible to bring own food.
📍 About the location
Champanager, a village situated on the borders of Chitwan National Park.
The Chitwan National Park is one of the major tourist attractions in Nepal. You can spot wildlife and enjoy the nature there. Away from the tourist center, Sourha, a lot of local villages share a border with the national park. In one of them we try to establish a farm on several hectares of land.
⚠️ Requirements
What to Bring :
Souvenirs for the children from your home countries, seasonal clothing, a sleeping bag, working gloves, trekking shoes, a mosquito net, mosquito repellant, music, reading material, photographs of your home country.
Qualifications needed :
Beyond at least basic English skills and your best motivation, there are no special qualifications needed.
🤝 Meeting point
The first meeting will be arranged at the airport where the volunteer will be received by the local staff. We are going to pick up the volunteers for free according to their arrival dates. We work together with Hotel Encounter Nepal, in Thamel, Kathmandu. The room is available from about 10€ per night. From Kathmandu we will arrange a bus to the project side.
Note : Arriving date, time and flight number should be given to us at least one week before your arrival, because we have to manage the hotel and transportation
ℹ️ Additional information
Personal Benefits
Work with children, women and local community people
Develop construction, presentation, communication and many other skills.