📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Work camps will be organized with local community schools and community stakeholders to
create a child-friendly teaching and learning environment. Most of the schools lack basic
infrastructures like school buildings, education material, playgrounds, and drinking water.
Volunteers can make a big difference in the daily lives of these children by providing the
necessities listed above and educating children through fun and creative ways.
The work camp will also involve teaching children from poor and marginalized communities
in formal and non-formal schools about Basic English and Mathematics, Health and Hygiene,
and Environmental protection through creative learning methods like art, music, games etc.
There will also be house visits and meetings with local people as part of inter-cultural learning
and awareness of health and hygiene. In addition, volunteers will also get a chance to
participate in simple renovation work at local schools and engage in activities like painting,
tree plantation, protection from landslides, etc. As part of the cultural exchange, volunteers will
witness and participate in the available cultural programs with the local community.
💼 What the programme involves
Paint and decorate the classrooms. Renovate school areas, walls etc. Teach students
Basic English and mathematics. Play sports, Teach Basic English and mathematics, health
and hygiene, and environmental protection through creative learning methods like art,
music, games etc
🏠 Accommodation on site
The volunteers will stay in Kathmandu for two nights until orientation. VIN covers two nights' accommodation on sharing basis and simple Nepali-style food. Then they will be with the host family/hostel identified by VIN in Okhaldhunga. The living facilities are simple and basic. Male and female Volunteers will share the same living area with separate rooms. There will be 2-4 people in one room. Volunteers are required to sleep on simple beds. Please bring your sleeping bag.
📍 About the location
Okhaldhunga district, which is 250 km from Kathmandu. It takes one day of travel by bus'a hilly and mountainous region surrounded by woods and fields. VIN also organizes travel tours like Chitwan Jungle Safari, Pokhara, Nagarkot for extra costs if you are interested after your work camp.
ℹ️ Additional information
The participation fee 200 Euros (+100 Euro for transportation) is to be paid on your arrivals at VIN Office.