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Tami Nudel - Israel - Sept 2008 Sarah Looney - England - 23rd November 2008 Nina Chapman - Norway - Dec - 2008 Edward Macey - England - 12th May 2008 |
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Current Volunteers
Anjoli Anand - U.S.A Anjoli is here for 4 weeks to assist in a medical. She is interested in Primary Health Care Education Program. As she is a medical student, she really enjoys helping others. She is eager to learn more about health care and treating patients, specially, working with an underserved population. She plan to work with international patients in the future once She has completed her residency. She also wants here to involve herself in Nepali culture and lifestyle. Annabel Baines - England Annabel is here for 2 weeks for health care program in our Orphanage in Sauraha, Chitwan. She is interested to learn about Nepal, Nepali culture and Nepali life style and she is enjoying being in totally different culture and life style. Annabel loves to help children. Anne Parry - England Anne is here for 3 weeks to assist our children in Happy Home Orphanage in Ganganagar, Chitwan. She want to work with children because she think they need support and positive input to develop the confidence and skills to progress in later life. She wish to help were help is needed and want to make a difference in a community. Not only this she is also interested to experience a different culture and a different way of life.Ultimately she want to make someone's life that little easier to live.She is very nice, friendly and extrovert person. Drag Palocios - Spain Drag is with us for four weeks to teach English to our children at Children Resource Centre in Thula Khet, Pokhara. Ultimately, though, he wants to volunteer to somehow make a difference in impoverished communities where people suffer and have a much tougher quality of existence than people do in the England. He is very friendly and children loving person. Eleanor Morad - England Eleanor is here for two weeks for health care program in our Orphanage in Sauraha, Chitwan. She is very soft, open hearted person. She likes to help people. Not only this she is also interested to learn about new culture and life style. She is here with her friend Annabel. Eric Diestler - USA Eric is here for two weeks to assist at Monastery in Kapan Kathmandu. He is very soft, open hearted person. He likes to help people and learn more about their life style and culture and he is enjoying a lot being in a new place and new culture. Eric loves to help children. Felicia Chiu - U.S.A Felicia is her for 4 weeks to assist in medical. As a young, active medical student, She wants to make full use of her abilities outside the classroom. She enjoys providing a helping hand when possible. Moreover, as a future medical physician, she wants to provide her knowledge and skill of medicine to those with health needs. Felicia believes in what her field can do for the well-being of others and she hopes to make a difference with a community in Nepal. Kate Langdon - Australia Kate is here for two weeks to teach at our Children`s Center in Pokhara, Nirmalpokhari. She likes to learn the Nepali language and to experience Nepali culture. She is a kind hearted girl. She is eager to help the people who are in need. This is Kate`s 2nd time in Nepal and thia time she came with her Mum Llynlly. Llynlly Langdon - Australia Llynlly is here for two weeks. She has knowledge about the hygiene skills. She wants to share those hygiene skills with the children in orphanage center and also likes to teach English to the children in orphanage center. She likes to share the knowledge that she possesses with people in Nepal. She is very interested to involve herself in different culture, apart from their culture. Matthew Badenoch - England Matthew is with us for four weeks to assist our children at Happy Home in Ganganagar, Chitwan. He is very interested to explore himself new cultures and life style. Ultimately, though, he wants to volunteer to somehow make a difference in impoverished communities where people suffer and have a much tougher quality of existence than people do in the England. He is very friendly and children loving person. Michiel Cock - Holland Michiel is here for two weeks to work at our Street Children Project in Pokhara. Michiel wants to obtain more knowledge of Nepali culture and do something for the Nepali people. Michiel wants to be able to give something to the Nepali children. For almost four years Michiel has been a guidance counselor for a mixed boy and girl scout group. In those four years Michiel has obtained knowledge and experience in taking care of and providing activities for children in the age category of ten to fifteen years. Natasha Pradhan - USA Natasha is here with us for 6 weeks to volunteer in our Orphanage home in Pokhara and later on to teach English in Monastery in Kathmandu. Natasha likes to work towards easing the hardships that many Nepalese face on a daily basis by sharing her experiences and abilities while immersing herself in everyday life.Natasha has also volunteered at an orphanage in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina serving as a mentor for children who have very few adult influences. Niamh Scally - UK Niamh is here for 4 weeks to teach English to the children in Children`s Resource Centre in Nirmal Pokhari in Pokhara. She want to experience a culture and region of the world. She wish to use her skills and knowledge to help and care for others. She is a nice person with the curiosity to explore the things. Yu Maruyama - UK Yu is here for four weeks to teach at our Children`s Resource Center in Nirmal Pokhari, Pokhara. He is interested to learn about Nepal, Nepali culture and Nepali life style and he is enjoying being in totally different culture and life style. Yu loves to help children and wants to teach his various games skills to the children at Children Resource Centre. |
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Working with the children was great, because they were truly enthusiastic about me- the western girl… Walking through the village made me fill like a celebrity- everyone shouts "Namaste!", and all the children run towards me and jump on me.
Over the next few weeks the routine continues teaching from 6-8.30 am and then having the days to prepare and free time and then in the afternoons teaching from 4.30 – 6 pm. One of the challenges we faced was the fact that their was no electricity so we had to teach by candlelight at the beginning and end of the day which was an experience! The teaching was great fun, the children were very motivated to learn and loved playing games – they also often wanted to stay even after their class had finished and sometimes a few of the older ones stayed to help out with the younger ones, who at times could be very hard work. 
Another challenge was at the primary school, where they wanted us to teach the kids for as long as 1 ½ hours at the time. This is too long to try to keep little children's attention, but as long as we were clear about what we were doing, it worked out fine. We ended up taking two 45 min classes each per day. They primary school also had exams in the time that we were there, so for these days, we couldn’t teach them. 
At the library where we were given as much freedom as we wanted, we based the lessons usually around a topic such as time, weather, family etc and would then use various methods to teach it. The most popular method was drawing and some students managed to fill their books with drawings within a few weeks. Other popular methods included games such as hangman and pictionary. A methods which I tried to use only when necessary included writing on the board and they would simply copy as this is often employed at school and is not much fun or effective way of teaching for you or the students.
We did full medical checks at the school and at the orphanage a total of one hundred children, the local doctor at a near by health post came also to prescribe any medication the children needed. We also took some of the children from the orphanage to the dentist in Narangard.
Last year I left Gatlang at the end of winter determined to return the next year. It may be a few months later than I'd hoped, but I did return this year to spend the month of May teaching at Gatlang Library and school. I had suggested last year that INFO give Tamang language training to Gatlang volunteers since they don't speak Nepali. When I arrived, I was happy to find out that Durga (the Gatlang host father) was in Kathmandu to give me just that. It was difficult, but the even the few words I remembered helped control the kids and helped me relate better to their very curious parents. |
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