The main objective of this volunteer program is to support children and young people from vulnerable backgrounds, such as those from low-income families or orphans. We work directly with community schools and adult schools, benefiting around six hundred children, ages 5 to 18, along with eighty-one families.
We recommend this volunteer program to teachers, students, teenage volunteers and young adults; anyone who wants to share their knowledge and put it into practice.
- Most of the teaching projects take place in Kathmandu, although there are other programs in Pokhara, Chitwan and Gorkha.
- Through these programs, volunteers can also support education in many monasteries in Nepal.
The tasks volunteers can perform depend on whether they attend a school or a monastery.
- In the former, volunteers can expect to do things like teach math (according to the classroom curriculum), teach English (focusing mainly on verb tenses, grammar, speech and pronunciation), help with the actual English and math labs , help children complete required homework. The monasteries can also help teachers complete the annual curriculum, help students solve problems in scheduled sessions, provide personalized support to students with more specific educational difficulties, raise awareness of issues such as smoking, chewing tobacco, poisoning and the like, provide support to school kitchens in food preparation and service, among other tasks that may arise depending on the specific needs of the school.
- In the latter, the monasteries, volunteers can perform tasks such as teaching English, geography or arts and crafts, teaching students how to use computer tools, supporting monks in carrying out daily tasks, helping to organize and develop extracurricular activities and outdoor activities, bringing help with documentation and assisting monastery staff in taking care of the place and scheduling daily activities.
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