Volunteers Needed for Ancient Village in Nepal
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sajana bhadel
Nov 28, 2016, 10:43:39 AM11/28/16
to Kathmandu Kathmandu [Nepal]
Attention Quilters, IT Specialists, Teachers, Organic Gardeners Our registered NGO is in need of help in several positions, firstly, someone to teach quilting/hand-stitching. Can you teach tailoring or any special sewing projects? We’ve learned during this last earthquake disaster in 2015 that the best way to help people suffering from a disaster is to support them by purchasing their local goods. I think that applies as much to the Middle Eastern refugees as it does to the people in New Zealand who may have financial hardships after their devastating earthquakes.
We, at Kay Garnay for Nepal, are working to help uplift the women and families of our ancient village in the Kathmandu Valley. These women are hard working. We have all been affected by the devastation, some more than others and yet our village was not severely hit by comparison of many other areas. We had a volunteer come from the UK who taught them some quilting/hand-stitching skills for a week. Now the women are eager to learn more and be able to earn a bit more.
We have hopes of making a reversible, flannel, hand-tailored pajamas, but the women will need to be trained. We also want to start a line of maternity clothing using the kurta as inspiration. So, we are open to the direction you’d like to take them. If you have something you can teach within this theme we welcome you.
What we offer
We offer a clean room and toilet, all the food, coffee and tea you’d like
prepared for you, lovely views, peaceful surroundings, morning yoga, weekly day trips to Kathmandu for site seeing, 24/7 WIFI, electricity and hot water and a grateful group of Nepali women who need help to support their families and rebuild their lives.
We ask that you teach for 3 hours per day 5 days per week and pay $7 per day for food/utilities. If you are unable to pay this amount please let us know. We have provided scholarships for several volunteers, some from other developing nations.
Other projects we need help with
IT: Website design and SOE. Our websites are up, but they need some updating and editing.
Organic gardener: We hope to create a botanical walk in our village and us also want to help our local farmers to grow organically.
Mapmaker: We are developing 5 permit-free trekking routes and need someone to help put the project together. Teaching at our local, government school: We need volunteers to English and Social Science. We also need people to read the textbooks into an MP3 file to create audio books. With the teachers unable to speak English well, the
students lack understanding when they just read the textbooks by themselves.
It’s an impossible task to learn from a textbook in another language without hearing it.
We, at Kay Garnay for Nepal, are working to help uplift the women and families of our ancient village in the Kathmandu Valley. These women are hard working. We have all been affected by the devastation, some more than others and yet our village was not severely hit by comparison of many other areas. We had a volunteer come from the UK who taught them some quilting/hand-stitching skills for a week. Now the women are eager to learn more and be able to earn a bit more.
We have hopes of making a reversible, flannel, hand-tailored pajamas, but the women will need to be trained. We also want to start a line of maternity clothing using the kurta as inspiration. So, we are open to the direction you’d like to take them. If you have something you can teach within this theme we welcome you.
What we offer
We offer a clean room and toilet, all the food, coffee and tea you’d like
prepared for you, lovely views, peaceful surroundings, morning yoga, weekly day trips to Kathmandu for site seeing, 24/7 WIFI, electricity and hot water and a grateful group of Nepali women who need help to support their families and rebuild their lives.
We ask that you teach for 3 hours per day 5 days per week and pay $7 per day for food/utilities. If you are unable to pay this amount please let us know. We have provided scholarships for several volunteers, some from other developing nations.
Other projects we need help with
IT: Website design and SOE. Our websites are up, but they need some updating and editing.
Organic gardener: We hope to create a botanical walk in our village and us also want to help our local farmers to grow organically.
Mapmaker: We are developing 5 permit-free trekking routes and need someone to help put the project together. Teaching at our local, government school: We need volunteers to English and Social Science. We also need people to read the textbooks into an MP3 file to create audio books. With the teachers unable to speak English well, the
students lack understanding when they just read the textbooks by themselves.
It’s an impossible task to learn from a textbook in another language without hearing it.
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