📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Volunteers Initiative Nepal (VIN)
VIN is one of the few Nepali run organizations currently operating in Nepal whose mission
serves to directly empower marginalized people and promote a greater sense of voluteering.
Our projects operate year round and international volunteers can feel satisfied by contributing
to an organization that is working to improve the quality of life of the Nepali people with an
emphasis on improving education for marginalized groups such as women and children.
💼 What the programme involves
VIN has been instrumental in overseeing the recent growth of women's income generation initiatives. In so doing women have been provided with critical livelihood training to generate income through pri- marily vegetable farming, livestock, sewing and cutting, incense making, candle making and dry food making. You will be key to overseeing and tracking growth and furthering these initiatives.
Your activities
Oversee and track, and advance women's income generation initiatives.
If possible provide skills to generate income.
Help explore markets for women's products.
Work with women on the farm.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation
VIN arranges accommodation for your induction period and your placement period, this means two to three nights at a hotel in Thamel, Kathmandu and then your host family or monastery/nunnery. The costs are covered by your project fee. In placement accommodation, your sleeping arrangements may be private or shared and in most cases you will be required to share a bathroom and toilet facilities with your host family or the monks/nuns. It is important for you to realize that bath- room and toilet facilities and standards of hygiene will be in accordance with local
standards. These facilities and standards may sometimes be very basic and may not
be up to in western standards. You must be prepared to cope with this.
Food
VIN provides food during the placement from the project fee. You will receive at
least two meals a day throughout the placement, which will be of Nepali standards
and usually Daal Bhat (lentil soup and rice), vegetable curry, pickle etc. If you wish to supplement your diet with other food the responsibility and cost lies with you. We will only cover food and accommodation for the period agreed for your placement and only at your placement.
In most cases you will be staying with a host family after the project induction and will share the same food with them. Should you have any specific dietary needs,please let us know before your arrival in Nepal. Should you wish to visit the city on the weekends then you must cover your own food and accommodation costs.
📍 About the location
Jitpur community of Kathmandu District, which is only about 11 km away from main ring road to Balaju, Kathmandu.
Okhaldhunga, a beautiful and hilly district, is located in Everest Region of Nepal. It has limited developmental activities and facilities. From Kathmandu, the shortest bus route is about 250 km which is rough and takes one day to reach there.
Leisure Activities: Either before or after your workcamp, there exists the option to undertake a short VIN-organized tour to one of Nepal's nearby attractions.
ℹ️ Additional information
Fee for four weeks is 505 , then 60 for each extra week. For Okhaldhunga minimum duration: 12 weeks (extra 100 for the transportation).