Monday, July 14, 2008

Travel & Volunteering

Future Nepal is a non-profitable organization and is run by volunteers. Our revenue is used to give training for poor families, especially for poor women. The amount from the volunteers will be utilized in our different program like education, environment, and income generating training. We give opportunities to the volunteers as per the above said annual program of the organization.
Especially
Environment,
Education,
Income Oriented Training,
Health,
Tourism activity, (Tourism Festival/International Sports),
Cultural Exchange,
Community development,
International volunteer village and
stone project (Stone revolution)

Placements:
So far as placement is concerned stay in a family where they are offered Nepali food twice a day (around 9 o'clock in the morning and 7o'clock in the evening). Tea is served in the morning and afternoon. Usually school, local organization/club/women groups and Health post at easy distance away and the volunteers will have to teach 3-4 classes everyday. Generally school/organization starts at 10 a.m. and is over at 4 p.m. More often than not, school runs 6 days a week and Saturday is a holiday. On that day the volunteers can get together and share their experiences. They can travel to nearby towns to purchase things for daily use and other areas in case of longer vacation. Besides their teaching time, volunteers can utilize their spare time in organizing the youth and women's groups of the community to do some worthwhile activities regarding avoidance of plastic materials and raise awareness about income generating programs.

Internship Program
Future Nepal organizes the internship program to international students in, English teaching, Environment, Income generating training, Education, Tourism activity, Cultural Exchange, Community development and International Volunteer Village. Future Nepal can offer internship in any areas related to Nepal in collaboration with our local partners who work in the different areas. Under the internship program, the intern engages in the daily activities of project. In most of the cases, interns develop a report paper in a particular area of interest by working closely with the project staffs. Generally, the director of the project serves as a supervisor for the intern.

Project Developer & Manager
We need volunteers with management experience and good experience in development projects. Please feel free to contact us for more details at futurenepal11@yahoo.com or visit URL: http://www.futurenepalblog.blogspot.com/ or http://www.futurenepal.org/

English Language Teacher:
We are looking for Volunteers who can teach English to children in government schools clubs or any other groups. The children range in age from 8 to 17 years of age and other may be any. The teaching curriculum for each major subject is based on the students' standard book. Volunteers are also encouraged to create their own lesson plans. Depending on the subject, volunteers can bring along teaching materials such as picture books, instruments, flash cards, art supplies, and songs. Volunteer travels most part of the Nepal with our staff. Mainly we take class most part of the Nepal. Our program runs 1 week to 6 months. If you have a good english in vocal means, it is nice for us. English Language Program length 2 to 10 months. Meghauli Resource Center was created to provide a library & reading materials and English language programs to members of the local groups. At the center, multiple three-month English classes are offered to local youth and adults. The language classes range from beginner to advanced, Foreign English teachers to improve their conversational English. Volunteers will stay with a Nepali family in Meghauli during their placement.

Home stay / Cultural Exchange
Home stays and cultural exchange programs can be arranged in 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 interested areas.

Environmental Awareness:
After completing different training of first week, volunteers will be placed with a Nepali family in one of the the program village. The host family will live normally one or half hour from the school/Environmental Post. Volunteers will teach environmental awareness at the local school club or door to door of Nepali village each day, Sunday through Friday. Environmental awareness projects will be 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, Jute and paper bag training and more awareness program, etc. Volunteers may also provide own their ideas, skills and knowledge about environmental issues.

Community Health Post Volunteer
This Program places volunteers in health posts, sub health posts and health clinics. You work in either an urban or rural setting, providing primary care to locals in your specialty. Moreover, if you have doubts about whether your skills and talents are really needed in this part of the world, consider this: The doctor-patient ratio in Nepal is about 1 to 36,000. Particularly in rural areas, where much of the local people live, there is a desperate, chronic shortage of medical personnel and supplies. Medical school students' activities will include things like following doctors on their rounds, exploring different treatments for simple ailments, providing physical therapy, and participating in vaccination programs. Of all of our programs, we are perhaps most proud of the Medical Volunteer Program and the invaluable contributions of independent-minded professionals like you. You will help to relieve the suffering of others, playing a critical role in the villages and towns where you'll serve. Please feel free to contact us for more

Tourism Activity
Nepal is a small country, but rich in cultural diversity: Nepal has over 60 different ethnic groups and 70 different languages. So Nepal has more festival. We are specially organized tourism festival. To celebrating different festival in different occasion we are invited more actors from different parts of country. We are exchanging cultural program one to another group. Every countries cultural group can contact with our organization and participant any program. Sometime we participants other groups programs also. On this program we are promoting this target village and product. We have a more program to advertise for foreign guest like Mountaineering, Trekking, Jungle safari, Rafting, Mountain bike etc.

International Tourist Volunteer Village, Nepal
It is the type of Project or village organization of Future Nepal Social Organization We are opening a new project to volunteer. This project is for only International volunteers. On this Project volunteers build a new volunteer village destination. In this village Volunteers create ideas and apply them. We want to introduce this village around the world built by volunteers. For this village volunteers build cottage, houses, Children park, Garden, Research center, Education Center, Income Training Center, Health care Center, Tower, Beach in river, Sport ground etc.

Sports Project
Wherever you travel in the world everyone enjoys sports. Why? Well, not only do sports create happy and healthy children but they also bring people together and help to build strong communities. Sports provide a platform for young talent from disadvantaged backgrounds and create a path full of possibilities for their development.Sports' coaching has a real positive impact on children. There is the physical and mental benefit that regular exercise provides. There is the fun and the promise. There are also the life skills like communication, team work, confidence, inclusion, and discipline to be gained by players and volunteer coaches alike.Whatever placement you decide is right for you, beach ball, beach cricket in chitwan and volleyball in school we can help you make the best of your time. You could be learning more about your sport in the morning and organizing a game in the afternoon, if you wish. Through well established relationships with local teams and clubs and carefully structured sports programs we are able to assist volunteers regardless of coaching experience.We can find the right sports project for you - just let us know what interests you!

One Stone Project (Stone Revolution)
We are opening a new project for volunteers. This project is for all International volunteers including Nepali volunteers. For this Project volunteers works with village people
In this village Volunteers create ideas and apply them. We want to introduce villages around the world built by volunteers. For this stone project volunteers help build green park , Green road, playgrounds, Gardens, Research centers, Education Center, Income Training Center, Health care Center, Tower, Beach in the river, Sports fields etc. In this project any support group, volunteers think and minimum collect one kg. stone or Rs. 1 perday each persone on this project to build and success the project. This type of program can be done any part of the nation. First we make stone committee then program. Program may be one week to extend one year. If we go 1 month to 1 year program called stone revolution. If you go 1 day to 1 month called stone festival.

Income Generating Training
As the status of the Nepali people is very low and to enhance their living standards we are going to provide them with INCOME GENERATING PROGRAM and to run such program we need volunteers who are willing to help them in every aspects such as financial help and income generating ideas.

Training:
The training to be provided by Future Nepal will be given within the first week of the volunteers' arrival in Nepal. At first the volunteers will spend their time by learning Basic Nepali language classes and some terms ( how to adjust into Nepali people) at this class.

Nepali cultural orientation/general cultural exchange.
Cultural tour of Kathmandu Valley :- A guided tour of Kathmandu valley will be organized to visit the important touristic, cultural, and religious sites of the Kathmandu valley (Sight seen)
Target areas:-Generally we have focused the following Areas.
Kathmandu/Lalitpur :- In the suburb and rural parts.Bhaktapur:- In the suburb and rural parts. Kaski:- It is the naturally gifted part of western Nepal.Chitwan:- Programs run any parts of the district. It is situated about 160 Kms. to the south of Kathmandu.Tanahun & Lamjung :- They are the neighboring districts of KaskiGorkha :- It is one of the historical and religious places of western Nepal



Stone Festival at Meghauli Village :


Future Nepal wants to make the people aware of the importance for stones. So they developed the co...ncept of the stone Project . Future Nepal has started to apply this ‘stone project’ in our village. It ha...s selected committee members and have decided to hold the ‘ stone festival’ at the Meghauli Village in Chitwan on Feb. 4th, 5th and 6th for 3 days which is the very first festival and distinguish of it’s kind in Nepal (may be world). The village community has embraced the project with open arms. If we join our hands we can achieve anything. As we all know ‘an ocean starts with a drop of water’ - so also can a community start with one stone . Every foundation starts with a stone — so that is very important. Stones can be found everywhere in the village area so why not use these stones to start developing our village. What is the Stone Project : The aim of this project is to develop our village ourselves. We have asked each person to donate Rupees 1.- per day or one kilo of stones per day that would mean per person 365 Rupees or 365 kilos of stones per year. Those wishing to donate more are welcome to do so. We use the stones and money to develop the most important areas in the village — like parks, children’s library, retirement home, orphanage home and roads and bridges and much more. Why don’t you come and join us and help us in our new ‘ stone project’. We hope that our, help ourselves ‘stone project’ will one day become Nepal wide We invites all interested national and international volunteers to be part of our Stone Festival. Come with expertise and help , share and learn or come with no expertise and learn together. Your small effort can make a big difference to people in the most marginalized communities !!!


For Details or Mailing Address:
Future Nepal Nayabzar, Kathmandu
Phone: 00977-9851088020,
Email: contact@futurenepal.org , futurenepal11@yahoo.com
web: http://www.futurenepal.org or
http://www.futurenepalblog.blogspot.com

Monday, August 6, 2007

Trekking

Nepal offers excellent trekking options to visitors from the easy walking excursions to the strenuous climb of the snowy peaks. The most rewarding way to experience Nepal's natural embellishment and cultural assortment is to walk through the length, breadth and the altitudes of the country. Trekking in Nepal is a big part of the ultimate Himalayan adventure and a majority of tourists have trekking as a part of their itinerary.
One can also trek on ponies in some remote places, which is equally enthralling for visitors. Pony treks follow nearly the same routes and are offered mostly in western region of Pokhara, Dolpo and Lo Manthang (Mustang).

Rafting

Nepal has earned the reputation of one of the best destinations for white water rafting. Cruising down rushing rivers of crashing waves and swirling rapids can make up excitement of a lifetime. Rafting trips for some is the highlight of their stay in Nepal. The waters in Nepal offer something for everybody: Grade 5-5+ rivers with raging white water rapids for the adventurous, to Grade 2-3 rivers with a few rapids for novices. Rafters also have a choice ranging from two to three-week trips to trips of two or three days.
The options include paddling, oaring and kayaking. Paddling requires all on boat to participate with instructions from river runner. Luxury safari-style trips with full team are available too. In an oar boat, the guide rows alone giving participants a chance to observe the surroundings. Kayaking is another way to travel downstream. A few companies offer inflatable kayaks, or fiberglass kayaks for hire while some arrange for kayaks on their own.
A typical day in the river begins early morning when participants arrive at the site. Instructions on safety and emergency situation are given to participants before the event. Life vests and helmets are worn by participants at all times during the trip. Meals are provided during the trip. Some packages also provide river equipment and camping equipment. The best time for rafting is from October through mid-December and March through early May. In winter hypothermia may be hindrance to some. During monsoons months of June through September, the white water sections are dangerous, but gentler stretches are easy to raft on. So far the government has opened sections of 10 rivers for commercial rafting.