📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
FFN : Friendship Foundation Nepal
💼 What the programme involves
The project takes place at the Shree Balmiki Higher Secondary School. This school has 18 teachers and 750 students. The focus of our work is on the renovation of class rooms. Furthermore, educational activities based on the individual skills of each volunteer are possible. Such activities could include teaching a subject, like English or Sports to the students or sharing information about environmental awareness to the villagers. The local school and the villagers are the main benefactors of this project.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Simple accommodation in 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
Punarbass, a village, 200 km south-west of Kathmandu, not far from the Indian border in the flatlands of the Terrai. 50 km east from Lumbini, the birthplace of Buddha.
🎒 Leisure activities
In their leisure time volunteers can do field trips, for example they can go to Lumbini.
⚠️ 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 areno 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.