📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Volunteers Initiative Nepal (VIN) is a 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/
Local community schools
💼 What the programme involves
A library is a collection of sources of information and similar resources, made accessible to a specific community/school for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both. Learners are at the centre of learning in the library. In Nepal, there are not enough training organized for teachers and children on how to use a library. So through this camp, volunteers will organize teaching and learning activities through the use of library resources. It’s a very fun and creative way of learning.
Work camps will be organized with the cooperation of local community schools under VIN’s children’s development program and working together with local teachers/children/ villagers.
The schools where we are conducting camps lack facilities of a library and other infrastructure. Some schools have some collections, but they are not managed and used well. The rooms are not well painted and books are not arranged in a proper order. Children are not taught the skills of using a library and its importance.
Volunteers will not only manage the library, but will also organize activities with children at school and conduct some classes on how a library is managed and used. The library camp will help children to develop reading and writing skills. Volunteers with abilities on sports, arts & crafts, music, dance, drama, in & outdoor group games are welcome.
Through this project we want to give every student an opportunity to learn, to enjoy reading, and to create new knowledge and understanding by the use of a library.
Objectives:
• To work for a children development project and exchange the experience
• Help the school manage its library and teach children to use it in a regular basis.
• To promote the library.
Work:
• Clean and maintain the library.
• Arrangement of resources in the library and record them in proper order.
• Paint and decorate the library room.
• Conduct the session with children and teachers for the proper use of library.
• Organize different reading and/or writing activities with children in relation to the use of the library
• Conduct different activities to promote the library.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will stay with the host family/hostel identified by VIN. The living facilities are simple and basic. Male and female volunteers will share the same living area with separate rooms. The volunteers sleep on simple beds / mattress. Please bring your sleeping bag.
The food will be provided in Nepali standard i.e. dal bhat (rice, lentil soup, vegetables, pickle, eggs). Meat will be served sometime.
📍 About the location
There are lots of sightseeing options in and around Kathmandu. If you arrive early or if you’re planning on staying in Nepal after your work camp finished, VIN also organises weekends travel tours to Chitwan Jungle Safari, Pokhara, Nagarkot at an additional cost if you are interested.
ℹ️ Additional information
The participation fee 200 Euros + (60 Euro for Transportation) is to be paid on your arrivals at VIN Office.