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Volunteer Programme
Volunteering with FACE Nepal is a great way to experience Nepal and see first-hand the value of your contribution. Volunteer work can be in a number of interest areas and you will be asked to select your preferred options upon registration.
If you are flexible in your selection we will recommend an option for you in line with your skill base and confidence levels, and in consideration of the needs identified in our development strategy. If you are traveling with a friend or spouse, joint activities and accommodation can also be incorporated.
Following is the volunteering programme details.
1. Teaching in a Government School (ages 5-16)
Government schools currently have anywhere between 60-100 children to one teacher. The schools have minimal teaching resources and the classrooms are of a basic standard. The student's value learning highly and any voluntary teaching support are greatly appreciated by both the pupils and the teachers. When volunteering in a school you will generally assist an existing teacher providing support to students struggling with the class standard. If you are of a confident nature you will also provide direct support to the teacher enabling them to enhance their teaching standard in line with modern teaching principles. |
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2. Teaching Specialist Schools in Higher Education (ages 16 +)
The current university standard is inadequate and the number of students making it to this level is scarce. If you have a trade qualification or post-graduate experience, your support in the higher education sector is much needed. During your volunteer work you will either be working within a university group, providing guest lecturing or working side by side with students providing on-task feedback, guidance and personal tutoring. |
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3. Teaching in Community
In the Nepali community many children and adults suffer from a lack of education. The educational needs of the community are not only formal schooling but also modern living practices and basic welfare principles. People often cannot afford formal schooling, do not have the time or means to attend school or are simply being left behind in the overcrowded education system, so volunteers will either hold community classes or work with community groups in designing education seminars.
Volunteer have to Teach general education and hold class at morning and the evening.
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4. Teaching Health and Sanitation in community or School children
At pesent Nepal has an infant mortality rate of 64 per 1000 live births and ratio of doctors to people in 2001 was one to 18,439. The water is often contaminated and the amenities are substandard. Contributing to this issue is the lack of communication channels to outside groups which offer life enriching information that could improve their standard of living, health conditions and ideally reduce the mortality rate. Educating the community of basic principles of dental care, personal hygiene, health, nutrition, water purification and the like have a significant impact on the quality of life in a village. Teaching aids and translation services are provided in these areas to assist volunteers in educating the community .
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 Children are drinking water
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5. Working with Women's Issues or Teaching women gorup
Women in Nepal experience an additionally challenging life role being the primary support giver to men. Women in rural areas often have manual roles in the fields whilst accepting primary responsibility for the house and the family without assistance. Until very recently, women rarely attended school. As a result mortality rates, feminine hygiene, birth control and the physical health of women is a major problem. Although the evolution of the women's role in Nepal is gradually improving, your contribution running community education classes will have a major and immediate effect on their current living standard. |
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| Organization will manage different training programs. Volunteers will have some women groups to teach them about family health and education. |
6. Education for Street Kids
Children as victims of poverty or abuse often find themselves living on the streets of Nepal cities. These children often become beggars until an opportunistic influence leads them towards crime. Providing educational opportunities and positive role models to these children will assist their chances of survival and leading a positive life. In addition to basic schooling, these children require encouragement away from crime and education about hygiene, health, the harmful effects of drugs, sexual transmission of disease and other life threatening influences. It is the goal of FACE Nepal to establish a drop in-centre in various cities of Nepal for these purposes and where volunteers can assist by educating and inspiring these children towards a positive life.
7. Teaching English (Adults and/or Children In Community )
The illiteracy rates in Nepal are around 60%. Teaching children and adults whoare either unable to attend school or have fallen behind in the education system gives thesepeople an opportunity to progress their life and gain better employment .
Most of community adults who do not have higher education have started to go gulf countries to work and try to learn some skills. They need basic English language for any kinds of work so. FACE Nepal has started to conduct English language class. Teaching these groups takes place outside of their existing commitments and will be undertaken in a local community office, their home or at the home of your Host Family. FACE Nepal will provide you with teaching resources to assist. |
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8. Environmental Conservation Education
Nepal is fortunate to have some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. With the lush plains and the back drop of the Himalayan Mountains , combined with the phenomenal bio-diversity of the country, Nepal is a place of immense natural beauty. Unfortunately, a lack of environmental awareness in conservation is seeing the fields become increasingly littered, the rivers become contaminated and exotic animals endangered. Poaching and hunting are still problems in Nepal and much effort and investment has gone towards the establishment of National Parks and reserves.
Volunteers with an interest in this area will receive appropriate training and an opportunity to work with a local environmental group planting, cleaning
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Volunteer is assisting to the Green Club |
conducting research, assisting within Green Clubs in School and/or working towards raising community awareness. |
9. Volunteering with Special kids
As a result of the poverty levels in Nepal many special needs service providers operating under the assistance of international aid require additional support. Your volunteering assistance in these areas offer interim support to these groups and are a very rewarding place to reside. The volunteering experience will generally involve visiting hospitals, medical or other care centers and supporting staff in providing mental and physical rehabilitation, entertainment and education. Work in these centers will be physical and hands-on under qualified supervision. Volunteers will not be assigned administrative or generic service tasks unless they specifically request this.
a. Orphanage Support
Although FACE Nepal has a goal to establish orphanages in rural areas the current situation does not have this available. Many people are forced to give up their children due to poverty and send them to orphanages in Kathmandu where visitation is often inaccessible. The majority of orphanage residents have parents in rural areas, but they choose to send children to orphanages where they hope their chance of receiving education, food and basic medical requirements will be improved. Volunteering in an orphanage gives you the opportunity to work with these children, assisting their education and playing with them. Your presence in orphanages also enables you to influence the orphanage's internal practices, raising hygiene levels and educating employees and managers to modern practices in child care. |
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b. Child care Center Support
Child care center is one of the goals of FACE Nepal to change the home less or parents less children. If you wish to volunteer with children under 5 years of age you will find yourself working in primary school facilities or child care centers supervising or supporting the care, education and activities of these children.
d. Children with Physical / mental Disabilities
Various aid organizations have established physical disability centers in Nepal . Unfortunately, like many efforts in Nepal , the centers are terribly under-resourced and the progress of participants is limited. If you have a skill in this area your support is of immense value. Offering best-practice advice to current workers and interacting directly with the children will have a life changing influence on the children in these centers.
There are very few areas in Nepal offering assistance to children with mentally disabilities. It is common to see children with these disabilities participating in government schools but being left behind by the system. Children who do not have good environment home are often leave home and became street children. Their needs lead them to involve in crimes and different abuse. While some children by the birth disabilities are hated at home and they are not send in special school. Organization is conducting some skill development training like sewing, painting, handy craft , Volunteers will support them in braining. If this is an area of skill and interest to you your volunteer assistance in the centers and working with children in the community would be of immense value.
10. Project Work
Many Nepali communities lack the basic community resources that most of us take for granted. Community projects will involve a number of volunteers and Nepali locals working together to complete a much needed community resource project as approved by the Volunteer Advisory Board. Projects vary considerably and may be anything such as building a community library, establishing local amenities within a rural village, building a bridge to enable transportation across rivers, establishing child care facilities or developing a drop-in centre for homeless and displaced children. Involvement in project work will be in either a physical or planning role subject to your skill base. The scope and nature of the project is subject to funding availability and impact upon the community. |
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