VIN s Children s Life Skills Facilitation Clubs provide a platform for children to develop their life skills and explore their talents. Over the last five years the children s clubs have organised camps and provided children s life-skills and sanitation training and creative classes, such as writing and street drama. The clubs also organise extracurricular activities and inter-school competitions. Together, volunteers and the clubs can arrange life skill activities.Your role- Create workshops that deal with leadership training, life skills and other ways to empower kids.- Organize creative activities oriented around such tasks as contemporary dance and/ or formal debate on issues such as promoting/protecting human rights.
Accomodation and food
Volunteers stay with the host family/hostel identified by VIN. The living conditions at the host family/ hostel are simple and basic. Male and female volunteers will share the same living area but have separate sleeping rooms. The volunteers sleep on simple beds/mattresses. Please bring your sleeping bag. The food will be provided in Nepali standard i.e. dal Bhat (rice, lentil soup, vegetables, pickle, eggs).
Location and leisure
VIN works in three different districts Kathmandu, Nuwakot, and Okhaldhunga are the three districts where VIN works. If you arrive early or wish to stay in Nepal after your volunteer period, VIN offers weekend travel tours to Chitwan Jungle Safari, Pokhara, and Nagarkot at reasonable prices.
Project hosted by
Volunteers Initiative Nepal (VIN) is an NGO with the mission to empower marginalised communities through inclusive and holistic development programmes. This is done through the following project areas: - Education - Health and Environment - Economy - Basic Infrastructure Within the above project areas, we conduct the following programmes: - Women s Empowerment - Children s Development - Youth Empowerment - Disaster Risk Reduction - Environment and Conservation - Public Health and Medical Care https://www.volunteersinitiativenepal.org/
Directions to meeting point
VIN staff will pick each volunteer from the airport. The volunteers are requested to send their flight details to VIN on time so that we can send our staff with your name card and VIN s Logo.
Additional comments
Fee for four weeks volunteering is 625 Euro, then 85 Euro for each extra week. Placements out of Kathmandu Valley cost extra depending on travel distance.