Patio Construction in Thecho Orphanage

Patio construction

Volunteer Remark

I decided to volunteer in Nepal because I am a student of Buddhism and an avid hiker.
Quickly upon arriving in Kathmandu, I decided the city did not offer what I was looking for, so decided to volunteer at the Hyulsa Gumba (monestary) near Besishahar, approx. 6 hours away. The lush, serene setting of the Gumba was exactly what I was looking for. The accommodations and lack of privacy took some time to adjust to (and it was also my first experience with a non-Western toilet!), but the warmth and beauty of the landscape and the monks put me at ease and made the days fly by. I hadn't realized how close Annapurna was from the Gumba--it is possible to start the trek from the Gumba if you're interested. Another tip I want to give is to bring plenty of pens--which are frequently requested by the children you will encounter near the Gumba.
Volunteering immersed me into the Nepalese and Buddhist culture in ways I would have not received as a tourist.

Barbara Ehlers

St., Apt. 208, Kew Gardens

NY 11415, USA

Happy Bijaya Dashami, BS 2065(2008AD)

On The Special Occasion of Dashain The Hindu Festival,2065 BS (2008AD) We Would Like to Extend Our Heartiest Felicitation to All Our Previous, Current , Future Volunteers And Community Partners.

-Hands for Help Nepal Family

Hands for Help Testimonials

Our experience with Hands for Help was excellent. We are a group of four eighteen years old lads, who decided to travel to Nepal to teach for two weeks, then going to University. We had an incredibly useful Nepal language lesson an hour cultural orientation day which taught us everything we needed to get by with our host family. We were split in two two’s and all had comfortable accommodation, were will fed, given filtered and boiled water but be prepared for having degrees of English spoken by the families.

The teaching experience was brilliant fun and our initial concern having little teaching experience, was soon forgot about as we learnt how delightfully willing the children were at learning English. We strongly recommend bringing foreign currency, a world map English story books to entertain the children. The organization of the teaching within schools differs to be prepared to use your imitative. The syllabus was les strict than our education in Britain, so there is plenty of opportunity to teach subjects your enjoy or have knowledge in *

At our time in Chapagoun, a village half and hour drive from Kathmandu, there were few days for religious festival. In this time we too us to the opportunity to play football with the kids and were taken fishing for one morning. Outside school the children are really down to eat love to talk to us and practice their English at any opportunity.

Badri and his family were incredibly helpful, even finding us people to organize flight from out side Hands for Help. Transport has covered to and from the airport which rounded off a good successful trip.

-Chris Hey
-Sam Forlkard
-Josh Folcard
-Sam Slatcher

* Our best advice is to make the lessons as introduce as possible, and work on their pronunciation, as they find it hard making certain sounds, such as ‘th’ and ‘sh’.

Hands for Help handed over a Cheque to Taprang School

Last week, we have handed over a cheque, worth 1550 Euro to a standing committee member, Bhim Kazi Gurung of Taprang School on behalf of our previous volunteer Mille Thorsan who raised that money from her friends and families. She visited to Taprang School last year, found a school building project. After returning home Mlle started a fund raising campaign in her initiative with families and friends.

Bhim Kazi expressed a great thank to Mille and told that all the money will go to school fund and be spent for school building.

Also we would like to thank Mille for donating a good amount of money to a needy school. Moreover all the people who donated and helped her to raise that money deserve a big thank.

Hands for Help Nepal Server Downs

Due to the technical problem our site http://handsforhelp.org.np has been down for few days as we are going to upgrade our site with new server. Hopefully it will be resumed by sunday evening, we appologise with all viewers. 

Thanking you very much for your patient.

Hands for HelpNepal Team.

Program Director has been appointed as a sponsor for Agro Project.

Today, the program director of Hands for Help Nepal, Badri Rai is appointed as a sponsor in Kaule e.V organization for socially sustainable Agro-Project. The Executive Director of Kaule e.V, Alina Schick has appointed him.

It is our pleasure Hands for Help Nepal will place volunteer in Kaule project for environment and agriculture program. Volunteer will work closely with the staff of Kaule e.V project in field and office base. As per Kaule e.V project they want to have some volunteer to teach English to local villagers for 2 to 4 hours a day so that the farmer can communicate with international project staffs and volunteers.