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Summary | | Volunteering and Internship Program Nepal | 29/07/2004 | Volunteering and Internship Program Nepal | Volunteering and Internship Program Nepal
About US
Chhahari Group Nepal is a non–governmental and extremely non-profitable organization established with the objective of changing and promoting the status of the country. All the members of this group are from different part and have traveled many sites of the country. The members of this group have collected enough experiences in volunteering works and are familiar with every problems of the community. Being known of this, we together try to organize and finally establish the CHHAHARI GROUP NEPAL.
Nepal, being rich in natural beauty, has many natural and cultural heritages, peculiar cultures, religions, different groups of people having wonderful attitudes and opinions. So the cultures, religions and environment have the highest contribution to promote society of the community, due to which they will develop and the country itself develop similarly. But, most of the people of Nepal (generally outside Kathmandu) are not getting the proper education, health facilities, drinking water etc. Chhahari Group Nepal has strictly vowed to overcome with the problems that have appeared in any part of the country. Generally, Chhahari Group Nepal is oriented in providing the facilities in health, education, drinking water, and sanitation and so on respectively. A single effort will not sufficient to solve the whole problems. So, if all, national and international volunteers work collectively, the entire problem can be solved.
Chhahari Group Nepal is such volunteering organizations in which each and every volunteer are the members of this group and to show the right way and to guide the volunteers the specific problems is its motto. Moreover, all volunteers can spend most of their time with this group.
Our volunteering and internship programs are:
- English Teaching
- Community development
- Orphanage
- HIV/AIDS
- Information Technology
- International Marketing
- Journalism
- Environment Awareness
- Conservation work
- Health
and many other as per volunteers interests and opinions
Chhahari Group Nepal offer volunteering program in every areas through collaboration with local people due to which volunteers can select the suitable sites as per their interests. Note: no any experiences are required.
Volunteer Program is available to individuals or to groups of up to 15 people. Placements range from two weeks to five months. Fees range from approximately $250 US to $1000 US. Placements are from two weeks to ten months.
We established in 2002 by four Nepalese with many years of experience managing other NGOs, CGN is a non-governmental organization affiliated with the Social Welfare Council. The Nepalese founders wanted to develop a challenging volunteer program that would benefit both the volunteers and the communities of Nepal. Since its inception, CGN has placed over 50 volunteers from multiple countries in villages throughout Nepal and has developed multiple successful programs concerning environmental, Health, Information Technology, Orphanage and various issues.
CGN contribute Program Fees paid by volunteers to various area such as:
· Chhahari Scholarship Program – We are providing scholarship to 20 Orphan children and who does not have money to pay for school.
· Chhahari Entertainment program – We are conducting entertain program to orphanages like picnic, cultural, sport program.
· Others – Overall Asia region is suffering from flooding every year. Nepal is also not far from this issue. Every year 15000 Nepalese are loosing their home and property. CGN help to those people by proving goods and shelter.
Missions & Objectives
The missions and objectives of Chhahari Group Nepal is to encourage and invite international volunteers to participate in every social activities and make people known and self dependent with various activities so that they can sustain themselves to overcome each and every problems occurred towards them. Making people literate is our mission too so that they can distinguish the positive and negative aspects of every problems and activities due to which every problems will be solved easily where they will burn at.
Objectives of organization
§ To notify the government, hindrance of the development in time.
§ To provide training for self- help schemes at free of cost.
§ To create cordial environment in the community.
§ To enable the laymen in realizing their duties (discipline, responsibility) at every step of life.
§ To exist job oriented program for poor people.
§ To make people skillful and efficient.
§ To mobilize various social reforms program which have stable instant and positive effect in society.
§ To run a special clean up program in tourism places.
§ To communicate in awareness program in environment and its positive and negative aspects.
§ To familiarize people with modern education training and its importance.
§ To provide free information about cultures, religions, social activities and so on.
§ To inspire the united feeling that all of us are equally committed in development endeavors.
§ To identify, Preserve and promote the heritage enlisted in world heritage list including mountains, Stupas, lakes, caves, National Parks, Temples, Historical and cultural sites, forests etc.
§ To publish papers, calendar, photos, documentaries, CD, Video-cassette for the easiness of Chhahari Group Nepal and distribute them in different countries and concerned organizations.
§ To collect suggestions, complains (if applicable), from every groups, organizations, associations, volunteers, individuals and discuss them for the bright future of Chhahari Group Nepal.
§ To lend helping hand in all round development of Nepal by coordinating different organizations running in Nepal.
§ To communicate public awareness by organizing various programs to evaluate the positive and negative aspects so that people can know right or wrong themselves when problems occurs.
Accomplishments
· Recruited, trained, and placed over 50 volunteers from the UK, USA, Brazil, Austria, Korea, Japan, Holland, Denmark, Australia, Canada, Belgium, Sweden, France, Greece, Singapore, Germany and Hong Kong
· Developed and administered environmental projects including garbage management, plastic bag replacement with woven jute bags, paper recycling and clean-up programs, anti-smoking, drinking and card-playing campaigns
· Conducted Cultural Exchange program.
· Created income generation programs.
Contact Information
Chhahari Group Nepal
PO Box 21107
Jyatha, Thamel, Kathmandu, Nepal
Telephone: 00977 1 42636201
Email: info@volunteers.org.np, chhahari@yahoo.com
Web: www.volunteers.org.np
Program Description
Teaching English in a school/Orphange
Program length – 2 weeks - 5 months
After completing sight seen/Language training, volunteers will be placed with a Nepali family in one of the program villages. The host family will live no more than a half hour from the school. Volunteers will teach at the local school for 2 to 6 hours each day, six days a week, with a break on Saturdays. The school children will be mostly 5 to 16 years of age and have Basic English skills.
Depending on the assignment, you will either teach alone or co-teach with a Nepali English Language teacher. Class size ranges from 25 to 80 students.
Volunteers enrolling in this Program will also be expected to share their own teaching methodologies as well helping the school's teachers to develop their own conversational English skills. To be successful, volunteers need to have a good knowledge of grammar. Previous teaching and/or TOEFL experience is a plus.
In some placements, volunteers maybe able to provide informal teaching and lectures to youth or women's groups for 1 to 2 hours a day. Program fees depend on the length of stay. Please see the Program Fees section of this document for details.
Environmental Awareness
Program length - 2 weeks - 5 months
After completing Nepali language and cultural training, volunteers will stay with a Nepali family in a rural village/Town. The host family will live no more than one half hour from the school/Environmental Post. Volunteers will teach environmental awareness at the local school and/or Environmental Post for 2 to 6 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.
Health Internship
Program length - 2 weeks - 5 months
Medical Background Preferred
After completing Nepali Language and Cultural Training, volunteers will be placed with a Nepali family in a rural village no further than one half hour from the Health Post and hospital is only in district headquarter. Volunteers will work at the Health Post for at least two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening (actual times vary per Health Post), Sunday through Friday.
Additionally, volunteers may also teach Health Education at the local school for 1 to 2 hours each day, six days a week except on Saturdays. If time permits, volunteers may work with youth clubs or women's groups in the community, by assisting in developing and delivering First Aid and General Health Programs.
Medical students are preferred, but volunteers with some basic medical training or familiarity with health issues (e.g., family planning, nutrition) will also be considered.
Home stay / Cultural Exchange
Program length - 2 weeks - 2 months
Home stays and cultural exchange programs can be arranged in most areas of Nepal. Participants will be placed with a Nepali family in a small rural village or within a city 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 with whom they stay is expected.
Home stay Programs are best organized from August to December which is the time when most large local feast and festivals take place resulting in 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.
Volunteers are welcome to join the Program with their children, partners or group of friends.
Training
Upon their arrival, volunteers are provided with one to two weeks of training depending on their program track. It is divided into two phases, with each phase lasting a week (for long-term volunteers, training will be extended to three weeks).
The length of the training program depends on the duration of the volunteering period. If you are volunteering for less than four weeks, the program may be shortened. This is a rigorous training program to prepare you for the cultural differences, to understand enough Nepali language to function in a village where few English speakers live, and in the case of the English Teaching Program, to effectively teach English grammar.
The costs of the program are as follows:
Chhahari Group Nepal - Application Fee: US $50.00. The application fee covers administration, program information, spot reserve, communication and direct support in Nepal.
Nepal Program Fees for Non-Medical Area:
- Cost for 2 weeks will be US $300.00
- Cost for 1 month will be US $350.00
- Cost for 6 weeks will be US $450.00
- Cost for 2 months will be US $500.00
- Cost for 10 weeks will be US $600.00
- Cost for 3 months will be US $700.00
- Cost for 4 months will be US $900.00
- Cost for 5 months will be US $1000.00
Calculate your cost in your own currency: http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html
The program fee covers:
§ Administrative charge,
§ Accommodation with host-family,
§ Meals with host-family,
§ Placement
§ Local Clubs and Schools donation
§ Contribution to various projects.
§ Scholarship for the Poor/Orphan Children.
The other costs you will need to meet are:
§ Airfare
§ Travel insurance and corresponding airport departure taxes.
§ Visa :visa (a 60 days tourist visa is only $30US, the extensions are $30US per 30 days with three renewals possible with in a year),
§ Meals outside of host family
§ Activities outside of program (extra sightseeing, etc.)
Also you will need a weekly budget of up to US$30 to cater for all your other expenses like personal items, beverages and entertainment.
Cancellation fees:
§ Before starting program - 70% Refund.
§ No money will be refunded once you start your placement
Media Placements
§ Rising Nepal
§ The Himalayan Times
§ Nepal Television
§ Space Time Network
§ Kathmandu Post
§ Image Metro
§ NTV Metro
Health Placements
§ Kanti Child Hospital
§ Teaching Hospital
§ Various Health Post in rural area
Orphanage Placement
§ Nepal Bal Mandir
§ Child Welfare Society
Volunteer Experiences
The Chhahari Group Nepal set me up with a great host family in Kathmandu and a volunteer placement in Kanti Childrens Hospital. The Group was readily available when I had questions during my trip preparation and provided a nice trip to Dakshinkali Temple while I was in Kathmandu. It was overall a great experience to volunteer in Nepal with the help of The Chhahari Group.
-Nikki Hoffman
| | Health Volunteering Nepal | 29/07/2004 | volunteering Opportunitites Nepal | Health Internship
Program length - 2 weeks - 5 months
Medical Background Preferred
After completing Nepali Language and Cultural Training, volunteers will be placed with a Nepali family in a rural village no further than one half hour from the Health Post and hospital is only in district headquarter. Volunteers will work at the Health Post for at least two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening (actual times vary per Health Post), Sunday through Friday.
Additionally, volunteers may also teach Health Education at the local school for 1 to 2 hours each day, six days a week except on Saturdays. If time permits, volunteers may work with youth clubs or women's groups in the community, by assisting in developing and delivering First Aid and General Health Programs.
Medical students are preferred, but volunteers with some basic medical training or familiarity with health issues (e.g., family planning, nutrition) will also be considered.
Health Placements
-Kanti Child Hospital
-Teaching Hospital
-Various Health Post in rural area | | Home Stay/Cultural Exchange Program | 29/07/2004 | Chhahari Group Nepal (Home Stay Program) | Home stay / Cultural Exchange
Program length - 2 weeks - 2 months
Home stays and cultural exchange programs can be arranged in most areas of Nepal. Participants will be placed with a Nepali family in a small rural village or within a city 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 with whom they stay is expected.
Home stay Programs are best organized from August to December which is the time when most large local feast and festivals take place resulting in 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.
Volunteers are welcome to join the Program with their children, partners or group of friends.
| | Environmental Awareness Program | 29/07/2004 | Environmental Awareness Program with Chhahari Group Nepal | Environmental Awareness
Program length - 2 weeks - 5 months
After completing Nepali language and cultural training, volunteers will stay with a Nepali family in a rural village/Town. The host family will live no more than one half hour from the school/Environmental Post. Volunteers will teach environmental awareness at the local school and/or Environmental Post for 2 to 6 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.
| | Teaching English in a school/Orphange | 29/07/2004 | Teaching English in a school/Orphange | Teaching English in a school/Orphange
Program length – 2 weeks - 5 months
After completing sight seen/Language training, volunteers will be placed with a Nepali family in one of the program villages. The host family will live no more than a half hour from the school. Volunteers will teach at the local school for 2 to 6 hours each day, six days a week, with a break on Saturdays. The school children will be mostly 5 to 16 years of age and have Basic English skills.
Depending on the assignment, you will either teach alone or co-teach with a Nepali English Language teacher. Class size ranges from 25 to 80 students.
Volunteers enrolling in this Program will also be expected to share their own teaching methodologies as well helping the school's teachers to develop their own conversational English skills. To be successful, volunteers need to have a good knowledge of grammar. Previous teaching and/or TOEFL experience is a plus.
In some placements, volunteers maybe able to provide informal teaching and lectures to youth or women's groups for 1 to 2 hours a day. Program fees depend on the length of stay. Please see the Program Fees section of this document for details.
| | INFO Nepal - Global Volunteer Perspective | 16/07/2004 | Volunteer in an orphange/childrens home | 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. Volunteers will teach the children general life skills, including health and sanitation, as well as arts, crafts and music. They may also help the children with their school work. | | INFO Nepal - Global Volunteer Perspective | 15/07/2004 | Teaching Environmental Awareness to Community | 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.
Past programs include forming student groups to undertake environmentally friendly tasks both inside and outside the school such as building a flower garden and starting recycling programs. Other community based projects include: creating green clubs, planting gardens, planting trees, garbage management, paper recycling, building smokeless stoves, building toilet pits, and developing and delivering environmental education programs through the use of skits and plays.
A current opportunity exists in the Nawalparasi District, working with the local women's group to make and sell reusable jute bags as a replacement for plastic. Other programs in the area include the implementation of a clean-up program, and an anti-drinking / smoking / gambling drive.
Volunteers may also teach environmental awareness at local schools.
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.
Placements are available near Pokhara, in Chitwan and within the Kathmandu Valley.
| | INFO Nepal - Volunteer Organization with Global Prospect | 11/07/2004 | Health and Sanitation Program | INFO Nepal's health post program provides a wide variety of experiences depending on the time of year, the local post's current programs, the volunteer's previous medical experience, and the volunteer's ability to learn Nepali.
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 the latest first aid techniques.
Volunteers usually work approximately four to six hours a day in the health post, supplemented by teaching health education classes at a local government school or women's group. | | INFO Nepal - Volunteer Organization with Global Prospect | 11/07/2004 | Teaching English at Children's Library | A small concrete building was converted into two rooms with a tin roof. A number of books were donated by Room to Read to start a small library. This was set up with the following aims by INFO:
- To provide a welcoming and friendly place for the local children and youth of Amarapuri to study and learn English Language thereby encouraging a greater
desire to learn and work together.
- To provide a possible base for volunteers to come and run various programs in the areas of health and sanitation, environmental education and English
language learning.
| | http://www.ivoindia.org | 07/07/2004 | iVolunteer Overseas Program | We are looking people in India from IT teaching / HR Manager/ Marketing and fundraising and social worker to work in social development projects in third world coutries. | | International Volunteers from India | 07/07/2004 | iVolunteer Overseas Program | iVolunteer Overseas Program is currently looking for volunteers from India in the professional areas of NGO management, Micro finance, Fundraising and IT training.
This is a two-year voluntary work in Africa, East Europe and Brazil.
This program is fully sponsored by VSO. We are recruiting volunteers for 3rd team.
Send us your CV as earliest.
| | INFO Nepal - Volunteer Organization with Global Prospect | 05/07/2004 | Homestay/Cultural Exchange & Language Training program | I look back on my time here in Nepal as my seven months away from America is coming to a close on it's final days, and can't believe how quickly the time went. My choice to come to Nepal and spend some time volunteering was so much more of an experience than I ever thought it would be. I came here to teach English, and with that came so much more.
Living with a remote Nepali family at first is a bit scary because you are being force into a totally different culture, as anyone would go through a bit of a shock. These feelings quickly melt as your host family looses the 'host' title, and just becomes your family. To them, you are their son or daughter, brother or sister, and taken into the family like you have lived with them forever. Between my family and the locals in my village, I felt totally accepted and comfortable with everyone there, as I formed tight connections with many people. My hesitance about things faded, and I found myself fully participating in all and anything I could do to help. From cooking dinner for my family, cutting grass in the field and carrying the big basket back on my head, dancing Nepali style with 60 villagers during festivals, attending popular music competitions, milking our cows, going to local village football games, jungle walks, and everything casual in between such as talking and laughing with new people. I brought more out of my village life experience than I ever thought I would, and in the end, the hardest part was leaving despite any excitement about traveling on. My Nepali family is now my lifelong family, and all the friends I made between the locals, other INFO volunteers, and other traveling friends make my connections fully international.
| | INFO Nepal - Volunteer Organization with Global Prospect | 02/07/2004 | Volunteer in an orphange/childrens home | 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. Volunteers will teach the children general life skills, including health and sanitation, as well as arts, crafts and music. They may also help the children with their school work. | | INFO Nepal - Volunteer Organization with Global Prospect | 02/07/2004 | Computer Training Program | The purpose of the Computer Literacy Program is to teach members of the community basic computer skills. Volunteers will teach either in one of INFO Nepal's Resource Centers or within a local school. Class size varies from three to twenty. Ages range from children to older adults. (In fact, in one class we had the younger brother, age 8, learning next to the older brother, age 21!)
Another element of this program is 'training the trainer.' Whenever possible, volunteers are encouraged to provide training to local teachers to enable them to continue computer lessons when volunteers are not present.
| | INFO Nepal - Volunteer Organization with Global Prospect | 02/07/2004 | Resource Center & 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.
| | INFO Nepal - Volunteer Organization with Global Prospect | 02/07/2004 | Health and Sanitation Program | INFO Nepal's health post program provides a wide variety of experiences depending on the time of year, the local post's current programs, the volunteer's previous medical experience, and the volunteer's ability to learn Nepali.
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 the latest first aid techniques.
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