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 Nursery to 3 aged between 4 years to 10 . 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, Naagdi Chuli and Himal chuli the major mountains of the Gurkha massif in mansiri himal of himalayas.
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 Peoples which are often respected for their hospitality and bravery and most of them end their carrier in British army and Indian army . as a volunteer you can teach basic English that starts with ABCD and some maths, dance, playing games etc.
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 transferred to home stay for two- three nights stay in Kathmandu. The second day will be an orientation day to know about the country . at same time you can explore the famous Shyambunath temple and also Kathmandu durbar suqare if you are fan of history and mystery of this part of the world .After the stay in Kathmandu, volunteers will travel to mountain village named Bhalamchaur in Annapurna The Journey will be 7 hours in a bus.
The volunteers will stay with local host families as a family member. They will teach students what they are really good at. the teaching can be 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 Main objective of the programme is to give a good care to the early age students from Nursery to grade 3 which are taken as a early schools in Nepal . volunteer roles is to help these little students with teaching basic things and playing more , chanting rhymes, creating fun , dancing etc . most of the rural areas kindergarten teachers are not well trained and volunteer having that expertise in this area can also instruct teachers in need about the method they have or share the knowledge they are trained for and some time be both for students and teacher in need .
volunteer will work with the children's from age 4- 10 which starts from nursery to grade 3
volunteers can come with some basic things like paper, pencils, colors if they want to make the teaching more creative , different paintings and games are also appreciated . the schools except from volunteer to work as a good friend and also volunteers will get an opportunity to work with mountain children's and also learn the different learning system where as students get a good teacher in their early age which can make them more eager to learn.
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