Light for Nepal
Code: aceb75dd-ef21-11e8-9abc-0242ac110024 Copied
About the project
Light for Nepal
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
NVCYE is a non-profit organization registered with the social welfare Council of Nepal government. The organization aims to empower local communities by organizing community development, education and conservation projects. The organization focus on community development work and conservation work. Most of the activities are focused on educational training for children.
NVCYE wants to provide a welcoming environment to Volunteers to make them feel at home. This way they can live an amazing experience by enjoying Nepalese food, observing unique Nepali culture and get a general feeling of village life.
It is a unique opportunity for the volunteers who are keen to enjoy the amazing beauty of the Himalayas, nature, the rich cultural diversity and the simple life style of one of the most beautiful countries of the world !
💼 What the programme involves
Typical day :
7:00 - 9:00 = Helping children in study and make them ready for school
9:00 - 10:00 = launch break
10:00 - 4:00 = free time
During your free time you can help host mother for remaining household work.
5:00 - 7: 00 = Helping children for doing homework and playing with them
7: 00 - 8: 00 = Dinner time
After that again if you like to stay with children and after that you can go back to your room for sleeping.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Host families will provide accommodation and food for the volunteers. Therefore, they need to share rooms with volunteers of other nationalities joining the same Program.
Note:
- Volunteers need to inform host family if they are going outside to have food.
- Volunteers need to be back home before 7pm in night.
- Volunteers are not allowed to smoke or drink alcohol during their stay in host family.
🍲 Food
Volunteers will have their lunch at 9:00 to 9:30 and dinner at 7:30 to 8:00 pm. Food is local style,cooked by a Nepali family. The main types of food will be rice, lentil soup vegetables and pickle but once week host family will provide you meat in your lunch or dinner. For vegetarians the choice is usually limited to Vegetables, lentil soup and pickle.
The host families can also provide meals during the weekends but if volunteers are traveling during weekend, then outdoor meals are not provided by host family or organization.
🎒 Leisure activities
During their weekend or the week, volunteers can travel around and do sightseeing of the area.
NVCYE provide excursions tour for volunteers among them :
- Sightseeing of Kathmandu (Boudhnath, pashupati temple, and syambhunath)
- Sightseeing of Pokhara (2 nights and 3days)
- Cultural tour of chit-wan(2 nights and 3 days)
- Trekking or hikking organized in group of volunteers
Do not hesitate to ask your SVI referent for the price or more infos about the leisure activities organised by NVCYE.
⚠️ Requirements
Being flexible, open-minded and dynamic !
🤝 Meeting point
NVCYE will send someone to pick you up at the airport ("Tribhuwan International Airport")
ℹ️ Additional information
Details of the participation fees :
Airport pick up/Drop : 30 euros
Program Fees 1st month : 350 euros
For more than a 1-month stay 70 euros will be asked for each additional week.
> It covers Food (lunch and dinner), Accommodation, project drop and Pick up.
Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.
Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
Light for Nepal Project
01/01/2019 → 01/01/2021
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
380.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Phutung, Tarakeshwar 44600, Nepal
Nepal
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Nepal Rupee (NPR / रूपैयाँ)
Exchange rate
1 NPR = 0.005958 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🗣️ Languages spoken