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| News Headlines for January 2005 |
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Summary | | Hands for Help Nepal | 18/01/2005 | summer escape in Nepal | Hands for Help Nepal offers summer program in 2005. Interested people can apply vial on line. | | Hands for Help Nepal | 18/01/2005 | Donation for Health Post | A volunteer couple from Australia, Bruce Newman and Libby Newman donated a refrigerator and some medical supplies to Alapot Health Post on the Board Members Meeting. Mr. Newman urged that the fridge was donated on the behalf of all Australian people who supported him to raise fund. On the program, after received fridge and supplies Health post Board chairman thanked to donor and Hands for Help Nepal also he hoped that Hands for Help Nepal and its prospective volunteers will keep supporting in future. On the meeting, a staff member from Hands for Help spoke about the health post waste management. Jagat Nepali, a medical chief from the Health post, hosted the program. | | INFO Nepal - Global Volunteers | 17/01/2005 | Teaching Environmental Awareness | In this program, volunteers either work at a local environmental post providing program assistance or, volunteers can work with the local community to develop their own specific environmental program. Often, this program involves addressing basic health issues as well.
| | INFO Nepal - Global Volunteers | 17/01/2005 | Cultural Exchange & Homestay Program | Homestays and cultural exchange programmes can be arranged in most areas of Nepal with our 55 Hostfamilies. Participants will be placed with a Nepali family in a small rural village for the duration of their stay. | | INFO Nepal - Global Volunteers | 17/01/2005 | Working in a Doctor's Clinic | INFO always welcomes all volunteers, however, this month we have a special and urgent request from a Medical Clinic in Kathmandu for volunteers to assist with their work. | | INFO Nepal - Global Volunteers | 17/01/2005 | Volunteering at Orphanage | Volunteers will be placed in an orphanage where they will live with the children, assisting them in their day to day routine. The children are mostly between the ages of four and fifteen, and have a basic understanding of English. The general role of the volunteer will be to act as an older sibling: to care for, look after and encourage the children. | | INFO Nepal - Global Volunteers | 17/01/2005 | Teaching English in Schools | In this program, volunteers teach English 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. | | volunteering in nepal | 15/01/2005 | Teaching English in Schools | cas nepal -
In this program, volunteers teach English 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.
| | INFO Nepal - Global Volunteers | 14/01/2005 | Resource Center & Teaching English Language Program | INFO Nepal's Chitwan Resource Centers in Patihani, Chitwan and Nawalparasi offers English language instruction to youth and adults in the community. Some resource centers also offer opportunities to teach computer literacy. The primary purpose of the Center is to offer community youth the opportunity to develop their English language skills and to give the youths a beneficial way of spending their time rather than taking up drinking, smoking or gambling. Ultimately, the philosophy is that improved language skills will lead to employment, particularly in the Chitwan tourist areas.
| | Paralympic News | 13/01/2005 | Nepal Debuted in Athens 2004 Paralympic Games | Nirmala Gyawali has become the first athlete from Nepal to compete in the Paralympic Games. The twenty-one-year-old athlete competed in Shot Put, 100m and 200m races. The Nepalese National Paralympic Committee only joined the International Paralympic Committee in April of this year, but the group was able to qualify one athlete before the May deadline. The Nepalese delegation consists of Gyawali, Coach Man Bahadur Lopchan and Acting Chef de Mission, Rupesh Parajuli.
"Despite different inadequate resources and obstacles, we're glad that we made it to participate, and although we might not have been able to do exceptionally well, i believe the initiation of participation to the Paralympic itself will not be less than a gold medal for us". Said Mr. Parajuli, International Relations Officer of National Para Sports Association (NPSA)-Nepal, A National Paralympic Committee of Nepal the only organization for the sports of the disabled in Nepal, recognized by International Paralympic Committee.
"We are working very hard to continue this initiation of the participation to the Paralympics, However, due to the inadequate resources like... Infrastructures, Equipments, Trainings, Expertise as well as Financial Resources, we're having a number of Problem.
Its very hard to do all these things on our own, in the case that no support from the government. This is not only the matter of Participation but also the matter of country's dignity where Nepal was/will be represented before more than 160 Nations in the world", Said Mr. Rupesh Parajuli. | | volunteering in Peru | 12/01/2005 | volunteering in peru | PeruForYou is a cultural exchange program for people interested in working as a volunteer and learning about social and development issues in Peru
| | INFO Nepal - Global Volunteers | 09/01/2005 | Teaching English in Schools | In this program, volunteers teach English 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. | | INFO Nepal - Global Volunteers | 09/01/2005 | Working in a Doctor's Clinic | INFO always welcomes all volunteers, however, this month we have a special and urgent request from a Medical Clinic in Kathmandu for volunteers to assist with their work.
| | INFO Nepal - Global Volunteers | 09/01/2005 | Volunteering at Orphanage | Volunteers will be placed in an orphanage where they will live with the children, assisting them in their day to day routine. The children are mostly between the ages of four and fifteen, and have a basic understanding of English. |
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