About the Program
Our Volunteer Programme is about Teaching in a village school in mountain region of Nepal in Annapurna region . you will be teaching students up to grade 1-8 aged between 5 years to 15 . the program is important due to some factors like you are spending your time with children in country side which are more isolated and marginalized rather then in city areas . Volunteers are spending their time with government schools and not the private schools . also you could learn more about the Nepal life style and spend a quality time in a village that is close with one of the 8000 meter beautiful mountain Mt Manaslu visible from each house of the village. contributing to education sector is a high respect in Nepal and the teacher are called Gurus meaning light in dark . The village is a home to a Gurung Peopels which are often respected for their hospitality and bravery and most of them end their carrier in British army and Indian army . English is given more importance and you could be one of their English tutorial .
Most of the Nepal is mountainous country and no schools are supported by government with enough teachers and your presence will be highly valued in the village as a volunteer in this school. in return you will get an experience that will long last in your life.
Volunteers are greeted in Kathmandu airport and transfered to hotel in Thamel for three nights stay in kathmandu. The second day will be guided kathmandu city tour day to see heritage sites of Kathmandu and next day will be orientation day. After the stay in Kathmandu, volunteers will travel to mountain village named Siurung in Annapurna accompanied by our field staff. The Journey will be 7 hours in a bus. After placement in the host family, our staff travels back to kathmandu.
The volunteers will stay with local host families as a family member. They will teach students what they are really good at. Besides their expertise they are expected to teach english lessons and computer basics to students for 2-4 hours each day except saturdays and public holidays. First few days the local teachers will help volunteers (co-teaching) and they will be given full responsibility to handle the class.
The Location
The most people of villages are farmers, retired Gurkha soldiers etc. The agriculture activities are carried all round the year. The village is typical Gurkha village where the people of Gurung ethnicity reside. The village is situated at altitude of 2000m and has good view of Himalayas including 8000m high Mt Manaslu. The village has been made Village tourism destination since 2012 and 20 houses are allocated for stay of tourists for typical village experience. People of the village are starting getting benefit from tourism.
The village is safe. It is touristic village and volunteers can meet other fellow trekkers that pass through the village for Annapurna circuit trek.All our past volunteers who stayed there have loved the area and its our turn to come and experience it if you are planning travel to Nepal and would like to experience typical nepali village stay experience.
This village is more ideal to stay except high winter months like January to Mid of February.
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