Alliance Nepal offers volunteer placements to people from all over the
world in the field of Teaching English, Health and Sanitation, Environmental Awareness, Cultural Exchange and assist Orphans. We placed over 32 volunteers from 12 countries in various projects. The Alliance Nepal currently has volunteer opportunities available in several parts of Nepal. Volunteers have the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational and community aid programs. This will give you a chance to make an important contribution to the people of Nepal and while doing so gain an in depth experience of the country and its culture, that will stay with you the rest of your life.
The volunteer opportunities are in the following areas:
a) Teaching English at our Village Recourse Center
The primary purpose of the Center is to offer community youth the
opportunity to develop their English language skills and to give the
young people a beneficial and positive way of spending their time rather than taking up drinking, smoking or gambling. Alliance Nepal's Resource Centers offer
English language instruction and cultural interaction to young people and adults in the community. Ultimately, the philosophy is that improved language skills will lead to employment, particularly in the
Pokhara tourist areas as well have enormous advantage in any further
education: English language is the medium for tertiary education in
Nepal. Being able to consolidate classroom knowledge with a native or very good speaker of English is an enormous advantage to learning English and learning about cultures is also enriching and important.
(B) Environmental Awareness
Volunteers will teach environmental awareness at the local school
and/or Environmental Post for 2 to 4 hours each day, Sunday through Friday. Environmental awareness projects will be defined by the individual volunteers based-upon their areas of expertise and the needs of the village community. Example projects include: creating "green" clubs, planting a flower garden, planting trees, garbage management, recycling programs making a smokeless stove, building a toilet pit, etc. Volunteers may also provide assist to youth clubs or women's groups in the community sharing their ideas, skills and knowledge
about environmental issues. After completing the
Nepali language and cultural training, volunteers will be placed with
a Nepali family in one of the program villages. The host family will live no
more than one half hour from the school/Environmental Post AllianceNepal local co-ordinator will be helping to volunteers..
(C)Cultural Exchange & Home stay Program
Home stays and cultural exchange programmes can be arranged in most
areas of Nepal with our 27 Host families. Participants will be placed with a Nepali family in a small rural village for the duration of their stay. This provides the volunteers with an excellent opportunity to learn about all aspects of Nepali culture, lifestyle, language, food and people. Volunteers
should remember that this is a cultural exchange and that an effort to offer some knowledge of their own home culture and customs to the family withwhom
they stay is appreciated. During their stay, volunteers will attend 2hours of language lessons in the morning and in the afternoon. They will also have the opportunity to visit and help out at the local school. Home stay programmes are best organised from August to December which is the time when most large local festivals take place. This makes for an overall more exciting experience for the volunteer. Nepali culture is distinctively friendly and open and participants are made to feel as though they are part of the family. Alliance Nepal local co-ordinator will be on hand to help
volunteers.
(D )Health Post & Sanitation Issues
Alliance Nepal's health post program provides a wide variety of
experiences depending on the time of year. While at your placement, volunteers may be doing very hands-on work such as giving shots and treating wounds; conducting home-visits; developing and delivering information on health issues such as birth control and personal hygiene; providing office support;
and providing knowledge transfer to the health post doctors on thelatest first aid techniques .Volunteers usually work approximately two to four hours a day in the health post, supplemented by teaching health education classes at a local government school or women's group. Prior to your placement at the health post, volunteers will receive two weeks of Nepali language and cultural training. During their placement,volunteers will stay with a local
Nepali family located within a half-hour to an hour from the post. An
Alliance Nepal local co-ordinator will be available to help volunteers.
(E )Teaching various subjects in Schools
In this program, volunteers teach various subjects at theirs choice at
government schools to students of varying age and ability, although
most
students are aged ten to sixteen. Depending on the school, volunteers
will either teach independently or with another Nepali teacher. Volunteers teach between two to four 45-minute classes each day, six days a week (Saturdays
are holidays).Volunteers enrolling in this program will also be expected to share their own teaching methodologies/experiences as well helping the school's teachers to develop their own conversational English skills. Prior to their placement, volunteers will receive two weeks of Nepali language and cultural training. During their placement, volunteers will stay with a local
Nepali family located between a half-hour to one hour from the school.An Alliance Nepal local co-ordinator will be available to help volunteers.This will be one of the most fulfilling experiences of your life.
(f)Fundraiser for our Resource Center and other projects
Volunteers are needed to raise funds for Alliance Nepal . We need grant
writers and fund-raisers of any kind to bring urgently needed funding to the organization and it's project. We would like the volunteer to raise funds to run the program we are running in different parts of Nepal and the different types of programs. The volunteers will raise money and send it to Alliance Nepal
and the volunteers will also provided with one of the various volunteering opportunities we are providing.
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