Sambhav Nepal strives to serve and enhance the relationship between the Nepalese people and volunteers who seek a heartfelt, life-changing experience. By exchanging a few home luxuries, each participant opens the door to a magical, unique, natural experience and for a brief time in their lives, gets back to the basics.

We are dedicated to arranging for volunteers to come to Nepal and be completely immersed in the culture. Through our placement of the volunteers into the homes of Nepalese families, where they share in the daily life of the average Nepalese while working in the community, we have found that the experience is life-altering and affirming for both the Nepalese and the volunteers. Teaching is more than reciting knowledge; it's about giving a part of you over to the local people you work with and students. It is about building bridges, creating links, it's about inspiring, it's about sharing and more than anything it's about giving.

Where your money goes
70% of the volunteer costs go to the family that you are staying with for your expenses. The other 30% is going towards building a Volunteer house. In future we don't want to burden the local family's precious time for them to look after you as they have to work long hours each day to survive. Our volunteer program is very cheap, we are only charging you to cover your own expenses during your stay. The cost will decrease once the volunteer house has been built. We know you’re donating your valuable time therefore we are trying to offer volunteering as cheap as possible.

Your added donation is always greatly appreciated, please contact us if you want to know the financial structure to build volunteer house.

Below are a number of volunteer opportunities we offer within Aurpokhari, Aruchanaute and Ratmate villages.

TYPES OF VOLUNTEERING PROGRAMS

1. Teaching

Volunteers will teach for three to five hours per day.
Schools are open six days a week, Saturday being the day off.
You will need a good command of written and spoken English, plenty of enthusiasm and a lot of patience.

You don't need previous experience but you will need to be creative to make learning English fun for the children, past volunteers have taught by:

-Using word association games
-Drawing pictures of animals/people
-Singing (eg "head shoulders, knees & toes!")

Bhairabi Primary school (students age from 4 – 12 years ) - Minimum Duration of volunteering – One Week.
You can teach English, Math, Physical education (sports & exercise) Social Studies & Environment (Focusing on values and the culture of Nepal) or Creative and expressive art. As a volunteer you can teach one or more subjects. Keep in mind that the facilities are poor and you have to maintain child-friendly environment. You must adopt result-oriented creative teaching methods. Class sizes range from twenty to thirty students.

Dharapani Secondary School (student age form 6 – 18 years) Minimum Duration of volunteering – One Week.
Depending upon your areas of expertise, you can choose to teach many subjects; English, Physical exercise, Social Studies (more focused on different cultures), Science (Chemistry, organic science & Biology combined) Moral education, Population & Environment, Agriculture and Computer class. If you do not possess a teaching degree, you will be only permitted to assist a teacher.  However, if you volunteer for a longer period say more than a few weeks, you will definitely be capable enough to conduct such classes independently in a short time.

A professional English teacher (Minimum duration of volunteering: 6 months, one year is preferred)
Dharapani Secondary school in Gorkha district needs a long term English teacher. If you bear an University degree and have work experience as a English teacher you are eligible to teach students of 8th, 9th and 10th grade. Even if English is your second language, we are still eligible for this position.  You are required to work for 3-5 hours a day teaching school students of the school and some interested villagers. Meals and accommodation will be provided in a ‘Nepali Home stay’ (see further on this page).  You are expected to bear your own flight ticket, insurance. Visa will be arranged by the Ace the Himalaya.

2.  Working in Health Camps (Minimum duration of volunteering: one week, longer is preferred)
Our Health Program mobilizes volunteers experienced in medical and health areas, to the rural area where the government is unable to provide a formal health institution. Many rural Nepali people are unable to make the time or they don't have resources to go to the hospital and other modern health services because of orthodox thinking, superstition and other cultural influences. Some Nepali people may visit a witchdoctor when they are suffering from an illness, some die as a result of avoiding modern medications. By living and working with rural communities, Health Program volunteers also increase the exposure of rural Nepali people to modern medicine.

Sambhav Nepal welcomes all interested and experienced medical and health personnel, students including students, professionals, organizations, associations and other groups to volunteer their services in our Health Camps Clinic.

Join us to organize a Health Camp to increase public awareness relating to hygiene, nutrition, immunizations and to pay particular attention to educating women and school children:

NOTE: You won’t be working in established health post, so you are require to bring all the medication and other relevant equipments for general check up of the local patients.

We are looking for supporters (contributors) to build fully equipped small health post where the future volunteers can stay and work, this will benefit more than 3000 local people from thirty different villages. Please contact us for the more information.

3. Live as a farmer (Minimum duration of volunteering – one day)
Volunteering as a farmer or volunteering to live with farmers is an option provided for you in Gorkha district. This will let you experience how it is to rely on weather just the way local farmers do in their practical life; using non-mechanical tools most of the time and especially learning how to grow different crops.

Share your Comment and experience.
There is a comment book available in the village, we ask that upon completion of your volunteer experience that you leave some comments and even make some suggestions as to your thoughts on your particular experience in volunteer program. It will be good to read for the new volunteers that come through.