Hands for Help Nepal Blog

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Nepal Private and Boarding school association has withdrawn recently hiked fee.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.

Patio construction

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....