Hands for Help Nepal Blog

We would like to extend our heartiest felicitation to our colleague as well as Team member Miss Kalpana Shrestha, social activist, chairperson of SAHARA Nepal, has been elected with landslide votes in post local level election for deserving vice-presidential post of Bhumlu; Kavre. Moreover, we wish her the magnificent triumph will strengthen in development of Bhumlu, Kavre.

In terms of making trekking more joyful our tour guides and staffs entertain respective trekkers by singing Nepali folk song and let clients dance on the trekking trail.

Newly, built our device friendly web page. Orphanage Assistance & Child Care | Hands for Help Nepal

These days, social sites and medias are flourishing. However, blogs has a different  and interesting feature to write and read.   We were busy in past years in order to post micro and macro blogging. Now, our blogs resume again to our valuable readers. 

Couple of years back Nepali social activists were winning so called CNN Hero award year by year Anuradha Koirala and Puspa Basnet, both of them were associated with children and women activities. Many others, said activists or real activist envy them. One of them was Dil Shova Shrestha, loving to come in media, runs an NGO called “Aama Ghar” provides shelter for more than 40s of helpless seniors. Later on, she was inspired in running to provide shelter, food and education to deprived juniors. The other day all of the children, no senior were rescued from Aama Ghar by District Administration Office Kathmandu, claiming that children were abused, getting filthy accommodation, less food and no school etc. Immediate after rescued the chairperson Dil Shova organized a press meet said that the action done in a conspiracy. A staff member of home reported to local authority with baseless allegation, the authority took an action without finding facts of the home; the action has been taken i...

Today is the special day of Hindus as this day called Shivratri,the birthday of The Lord Shiv. Hundred thousands of devotees are taking part to worship The Lord shiv at Pashupatinath temple. As per Pashupati development board there are thousands of sadhus and Naga babas the holy men are taking part to perform ritual at the Pashupati temple premises. There over 50000 pilgrims from India and other parts of the globe are attending in this day. Our volunteers are going to see the procession at the Pashupati Nath temple in order to explore the reality of Hindu pilgrims. In this special occasion Hands for Help Nepal team would like to extend our greetings to all!!

Couple of week ago we made a visit to the Langtang Orphanage home in order to drop donation received from donors.All the children were doing great, growing day by day They were so happy as we bought some sweats and four kilos of chicken.

After successfully completing constituent pole held two months ago. Mr Shusil Koirala has been elected as a prime minister of Nepal. We hare hoping his cabinet will be able write a long awaited constituent of Nepal. Also the new form house of representative will pass the bill about volunteering visa. Due to rigid rule with Nepal immigration department no any volunteer visa are granted to foreigner who are cooperate with local Non-governmental organization.

We started New webpage with different domen name http://handsforhelpnepal.org still the website has not been completed yet we are trying to put more feature and information on it.

Since 2001 our webpage www.handsforhelp.org.np was running smoothly. we changed some hosting provider in past years. The one who was hosting last four years is hosting no more any webpage at all. We are changing our domen name and pages style and information but there wont be any change on volunteer reports, stories, diaries of past volunteer.Temporarily we use handsforhelp.com

Hands for Help Nepal started sending volunteer in teaching English to Buddhist Monks at Nhedo Monastery. Nhedo monastery is located in Kathmandu and follow Kagirapa philosophy. There are 200 monks student are studying Buddhism. As a volunteer you will be staying at the monastery in monk hostel teaching and eating together with monnks.

I supposed to go to drop volunteers to Jharuwarasi School. Unfortunately Bramin and chhetri societies impose one more two day strike.

Nepal Private and Boarding school association has withdrawn recently hiked fee. In return Student Union Revolutionary call off their strike, hopefully all schools resume again from tomorrow, on 30th April. Teaching Volunteers from boarding schools are requested to contact us or follow National daily news.

All private schools are closed today, still it has not been confirmed how long will it be shut down. The sister organization of Nepal Communist Party Maoist, the All Nepal Free Student Union (Revolutionary) demands to decrease the hiked fee from this session. Hopefully the concerned groups Student Union, Educational Ministry and Student Guardian Society will come in an agreement soon. We inform our volunteers who are placed at the private schools contact us if they want to change placement in to Monastery, Orphanage and other programs.

After a long hassle in getting password of our account, luckily we are success. Now our blog will resume again. There are lots of new thing for 3 months of 2008 and whole year of 2009 that we should have to share with you. We hope we will keep posting about new stuff in near future. Thanking you very much for your patient.

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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....

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

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 ...

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.