Background/Project: Child Development is one of the major programs of VIN’s Integrated Community Development Approach. Goal of the Children development program is to protect the rights of all children in the Jitpur community by providing them with access to basic quality education, developing their life skills & providing access to health services through community health program. VIN has different projects in children development program such as Children’s Clubs (CC), Early Childhood Development (ECD) School Attendance Project (SAP) and Orphanage. VIN welcomes volunteers from across the globe so as to assimilate the children with the latest teaching methodology and way of providing care. Besides, it aims to orient the teachers about skills, technology and other aspects of the broader world to the closed Nepalese community through interaction.
Objectives: To work for Children development project and exchange the experience, paint and colour the classrooms to make it child friendly, teach different skills to the children.
Work: Children's Club-Conduction of session on experience sharing, creative writing, Child Rights, community drama etc. Early childhood Development centers (ECD)- Assisting ECD teacher for caring & teaching ECD kids, Orientation of parents on good parenting for Early Childhood Development, Outreach Campaign for mass awareness raising of parents on good parenting for early childhood development, Decoration of ECD classrooms with locally available materials
Location: Jitpur community of Kathmandu District, which is only about 11 km away from main ring road to Balaju, Kathmandu
Accommodation: The volunteers will stay with the host family/hostel identified by VIN. The living facilities are simple and basic. Male and female work campers will share the same living area with separate rooms. There will be 2-4 persons in one room. Workcampers are required to sleep on the simple beds and carry their sleeping bags.
Language: Basic English should be spoken among participants
Fee: The participation fee will be 200 Euros to be paid on your arrivals, covering foods, local transport, accommodation, administration cost, and material for the camps, T-shirt, and VIN certificate of participation. Volunteers are requested to bear their own health and travel insurance. Please keep it in your mind that all personal expenses and free day expenses are excluded.
Meeting point: VIN office, Balaju on the first day at the latest 12.00 midday.
Airport : Tribhuwan International Airport, Kathmandu
Leisure Activities: Either before or after your workcamp, there exists the option to undertake a short VIN-organized tour to one of Nepal’s nearby attractions.