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Quick Look
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Location:
Pokhara - Nepal
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Host Institution: Annapurna community development forum
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Language of Instruction: Annapurna community development forum
Overview
Home stays and Volunteer programs can be arranged in typical Nepali villages with different ethnic group and most touristy and remote areas of Nepal. Participants will be placed with a Nepali family in a small rural village. 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.
Participants in the program will not go through training in Nepal with the other volunteers. During their home-stay, volunteers will attend 2 hours of language lessons in the morning and in the afternoon. They will also have the opportunity to visit different areas of interest. They can participate in different cultural program around village.Volunteers can involved in project work besides this. Most of our project in Village so we encourage to volunteers to stay village.
Duration of Program: 2 weeks- 5 months
ACDF Program Fees Euros
• 2 weeks Euro 200
• 1 month Euro 300
• 1 1/2 months Euro 400
• 2 months Euro 450
• 2 1/2 months Euro 475
• 3 months Euro 500
• 4 months Euro 600
• 5 months Euro 650
The above costs include the following:
• Transportation to and from Kathmandu Airport.
• Transport to and from the Kathmandu to Pokhara
• Accommodation and main meals during training period and placement.
• Language and cultural information classes.
• ACDF staff visits to placement.
• Contribution to ACDF projects e.g.
• Health post
• Back to School program child care center "sarangkot"
• Community learning center
• Public Library
• Scholarship for the poor dalit tribes children.
Your additional Financial Responsibilities
You will be responsible for your fight ticket to Nepal and visa fees which are follows (check with your embassy for the latest fee structure):
• $ 30 USD for the first two months.
• $ 30 USD per month thereafter for a maximum of 5 months per year.
• Water purification tablets and / or good quality water purifier
• First aid kit.
• Flashlight (torch)
• Penknife
• Books about your country
• Photos of your family / friends / home (essential !!)
• Souvenirs for you family and staff from your country.
• A few examples of your local currency
• Music CDs
• Basic Learner's English / Nepali / English dictionary - for simple definitions (buy a Nepali dictionary on arrival in Kathmandu)
• Magazines
• Coloured pencils and pens, drawing books, stickers.
• Inflatable globe
• Books on teaching English / English Grammar for you reference
For more information on fees, please visit our website.
In a typical placement volunteers stay in a family where they eat
Nepali food with the family twice a day (around 9 o' clock in the morning and
7 o' clock in the evening). Tea is served in the morning and in the
afternoon. Volunteers may have the opportunity to get together with other
volunteers and share their experience. You will be able to travel to nearby towns to
purchase things for daily use and could travel to other areas on longer
vacation. Besides your project work, volunteers can utilize their spare time
in organizing the youth and women's groups of the community to do some
worthwhile activities like building a smokeless stove, toilet by using
local materials, making a soak pit, kitchen gardening, making a solar dryer,
garbage management or paper recycling.
How to Apply:
We accept volunteers between the ages of 18 - 80 years.
Eligibility
All over from world
Housing/Accommodation
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Homestay / Host Family
The program fee covers:
•Pick up / Drop at the airport
•Administration Fees
•Accommodation and main meal during training and placement
•Language Course / Cultural Orientation
•Regular support, Visit, Supervision during placement
•Local communication from office
•Transportation cost during sight seeing
•Legal services
Program Costs
The exact amount of the program fees 400$ or 300 Euro per month it
includes meals, accommodation during the program
* Personal expenses associated with the program by applicant.
* Relevant information regarding travel, transportation, and
accommodation (i.e. home stay, hostel, meals, etc) by office
* Location of the program - all Nepal
* Duration of the program - 2weeks to five months
* What skills are required of volunteers?
Public speaking skill or some teaching experience is good.
Accommodation-Host families house according to volunteers intrest we have 200 different houses in Village and city .
Meal-Volunteers should share from family .Mostly it is Nepali food Daal and Bhat .
Transpotion- There is public bus in every village
Comminication- There is phone and somewhere internet facilities in Village
Placement- Placement may be village or city or Terai according to volunteers intrest.
A memorable and worth while adventure is waiting here for you.
We do make a special effort to tailor your volunteer experience to suit your
interests and abilities.
In a typical placement volunteers stay in a family where they eat
Nepali food with the family twice a day (around 9 o' clock in the morning and
7 o' clock in the evening). Tea is served in the morning and in the
afternoon. Volunteers may have the opportunity to get together with other
volunteers and share their experience. You will be able to travel to nearby towns to
purchase things for daily use and could travel to other areas on longer
vacation. Besides your project work, volunteers can utilize their spare time
in organizing the youth and women's groups of the community to do some
worthwhile activities like building a smokeless stove, toilet by using
local materials, making a soak pit, kitchen gardening, making a solar dryer,
garbage management or paper recycling.
Please confirm this reservation by sending us your flight arrival
information when it is available with you.
After having your flight details we will pick you up from the Airport,
there will be a representative of ACDF Nepal upon your arrival to the
Kathmandu Airport, will be waiting outside airport lounge holding a
placard with ACDF Nepal and your name on it.
On arrival at the airport you will need to get a visa which is $30 US for
two months. To speed this process up we recommend you take passport
photos, please carry along at least 6 photograph. You will also need the money in US dollars.
In the meantime, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
contact us.
Costs
Include: The exact amount of the program fees 400$ or 300 Euro per month it
includes meals, accommodation during the program
* Personal expenses associated with the program by applicant.
* Relevant information regarding travel, transportation, and
accommodation (i.e. home stay, hostel, meals, etc) by office
* Location of the program - all Nepal
* Duration of the program - 2weeks to five months
* What skills are required of volunteers?
Public speaking skill or some teaching experience is good.
Accommodation-Host families house according to volunteers intrest we have 200 different houses in Village and city .
Meal-Volunteers should share from family .Mostly it is Nepali food Daal and Bhat .
Transpotion- There is public bus in every village
Comminication- There is phone and somewhere internet facilities in Village
Placement- Placement may be village or city or Terai according to volunteers intrest.
A memorable and worth while adventure is waiting here for you.
We do make a special effort to tailor your volunteer experience to suit your
interests and abilities.
In a typical placement volunteers stay in a family where they eat
Nepali food with the family twice a day (around 9 o' clock in the morning and
7 o' clock in the evening). Tea is served in the morning and in the
afternoon. Volunteers may have the opportunity to get together with other
volunteers and share their experience. You will be able to travel to nearby towns to
purchase things for daily use and could travel to other areas on longer
vacation. Besides your project work, volunteers can utilize their spare time
in organizing the youth and women's groups of the community to do some
worthwhile activities like building a smokeless stove, toilet by using
local materials, making a soak pit, kitchen gardening, making a solar dryer,
garbage management or paper recycling.
Please confirm this reservation by sending us your flight arrival
information when it is available with you.
After having your flight details we will pick you up from the Airport,
there will be a representative of ACDF Nepal upon your arrival to the
Kathmandu Airport, will be waiting outside airport lounge holding a
placard with ACDF Nepal and your name on it.
On arrival at the airport you will need to get a visa which is $30 US for
two months. To speed this process up we recommend you take passport
photos, please carry along at least 6 photograph. You will also need the money in US dollars.
In the meantime, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
contact us.
Financial Aid
Yes.
Students discount
Dates
Location: Pokhara, Sarangkot, 0977, Nepal
Organization: Annapurna Community Development Forum
Start date: jan 29, 2006
Sex: All are welcome
Language(s): English
End date: April 21, 2008
Age: Adults, Seniors
Area of Focus: Children and Youth, Community Service and Volunteering, Education and Academia, Environment and Ecology, Health and Medicine, Housing and Homelessness, Men's Issues, Multi-Service Community Agency, Network of Nonprofit Organizations, Peace, War, and Conflict Resolution, Poverty and Hunger, Women's Issues
Deadlines
www.acdfnepal.org.np
Contact
Annapurna community development forum
sarangkot pokhara
Nepal
Tel:
0977-9846029758
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