NEPAL / SNS Volunteer Nepal
SNS Nepal is a non profitable volunteer organization establish by Nepalese youth volunteers, Works in education, environment, health and sanitation in different rural areas of Nepal. We enable volunteers to forge links with schoolchildren, youth groups and communities. We believe that this cultural exchange is invaluable for empowering our poor rural communities and for strengthening the bonds of understanding across the globe.
Our Programs
Teaching English: We will provide you with training to enable you to teach English in Nepal. The system of teaching is different here so you will be taught local teaching methods. The schoolchildren will be between 9 and 15 years of age and have a basic level of English. You will also be engaged to liaise with teachers of the school, to assist them with their teaching practice and conversational English, developing their skills for the future. You will have the chance to live with a Nepali family near the school. You will teach for about 3 to 4 hours each day, 6 days a week (Saturday is the day off). You will also be involved in an informal education program, teaching in community youth clubs or a women’s group for 1 to 2 hours a day.
Environmental Work:
We will provide you with the training to enable you to teach environmental education in a village school and in the village community. You will have the chance to live with a Nepali family near the school, and you will teach environmental education for about 2 to 3 hours a day, 6 days a week (Saturday is the day off). You will also be involved in sharing your ideas, skills and knowledge about environmental issues with local NGOs (non-governmental organizations), with youth clubs or women’s groups. You will set up groups within the school and groups of people within the local community to focus on environmental work while you are here and to maintain the work after you have gone. Your areas of expertise and the needs of the village community will define the environmental awareness projects you set up. Here are examples of some of the projects we have initiated: making a flower garden, planting trees, garbage management, paper recycling, making a smokeless stove, making a toilet pit using local materials. Nepal is a land-locked country. 85% of its land is covered by mountains. Nepal is also the second richest country of the world for water resources. There is great potential for hydroelectricity but, due to the lack of financial support and lack of political consciousness, Nepal depends largely on wood fuel. Every year thousands and thousands of trees get cut down. Deforestation of the mountains is a major problem. It causes landslides and floods. Along with deforestation, high levels of water and air pollution are ruining our environment. Only through education can we begin to tackle these issues.
SNS Nepal aims to improve the quality of Nepal’s environment through
• Plantation
• Sanitation
• Creating Green club groups within the community
• Garbage management
• Making flower gardens
• Paper recycling
• Draining systems for polluted water
• Making smokeless stoves
Work at Hospital/ Health Post:
We will provide you with the necessary training and information to enable you to promote health and sanitation at a local level in Nepal. You will have the chance to live with a Nepali family near the community health post or hospital. You will be involved with work at the health post or in the hospital in the morning and evening. Additionally, volunteers may also give classes in health education to children at the local school for 1 to 2 hours each day (Saturday is the day off). Every year many Nepali people die or suffer from different kinds of diseases simply due to lack of health education and access to adequate healthcare resources. The sick in the mountain regions or remote villages sometimes die before they get first aid or before a doctor can give them a diagnosis. Because of poor transportation, patients often have to be carried by hand in bamboo baskets to the nearest health post, often many miles away from their village.
SNS Nepal is working to address these issues by sponsoring community health initiatives in rural areas. For this project, we need volunteers who can train and share their ideas with Nepali health workers as well as provide direct health care services. Also we need to develop resources and improve facilities that exist, and to create new ones where needed. If time permits, volunteers may work with youth clubs or women’s groups in the community, providing assistance to set up and deliver First Aid and General Health Programs.
We prefer to use volunteers with a medical background, students or health workers, for this program. However, we can accept others with a real interest for work in this field. In addition to assigning volunteers to village placements, twice a year, SNS Nepal sets up a health camp in a chosen area of Nepal. We gather equipment, volunteers and contributions to provide this much-needed service. Individuals with special knowledge in the following areas are always needed.
• Primary care and General Medicine
• Pediatrics
• Ophthalmology/ Optometry
• General Dentistry/ Oral Surgery
• Health Education
• Gynecology and Women’s Health
Work in an orphanage:
SNS Nepal puts volunteers on an attachment to an orphanage where they will live with children assisting them in their daily routine. The children are usually between 3 and 16 years of age and will have a basic understanding of English. You will teach the orphanage children between 7am and 9am, and from 6pm to 8pm. You will provided with training to help you to teach the children general life skills, and to take classes about environmental issues, health and sanitation, as well as arts and music.
SNS Nepal is a small charity, working to change the lives of poor children in orphanages and to provide them with an opportunity to become active in the community. We need your help to succeed.
You can help the orphanage children in the following ways:
• Volunteering to work in an orphanage
• Helping the children with their school work
• Donating money for their education
• Fundraising
• Encouraging the children
Work with rural women’s group:
Volunteers are placed in a village, usually living with a family. In the village you can focus your time to work with women’s groups and mothers’ groups, assisting with activities such as plantation, informal education classes, tailoring training and income-generating
Krishna
krishnatimi@gmail.com
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