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Overall, the experience was everything I thought it would be. I enjoyed a ‘two-centre’ student placement in Nepal – starting with office work in the capital and then teaching in a remote mountain village. For the first week, I worked for the charity HELP (Helambu Education and Livelihood Partnership) in their Kathmandu office. HELP delivers many of the programmes on the ground in Nepal for which Mondo Foundation provides funding. During that time I wrote a report on the recent completion...
I was lucky enough to spend 4 weeks of the summer volunteering in Shree Nurbuling Secondary School, located in the village of Kharkadanda in the Helambu region of Nepal. The school is supported by the organisation “HELP” (Helambu Education and Livelihood Partnership) who are funded by the UK-based charity, MondoChallenge Foundation. Although I will talk specifically about my experience at Shree Nurbuling, the work that HELP carries out benefits schools across the entire region, with about 35 schools and 6000...
I travelled to Nepal and volunteered with HELP in the summer of 2016, and it was an incredible experience! After arriving in Kathmandu, we stayed there for a few days, which gave us the opportunity to visit many of the city’s attractions. We then travelled to the school that we would be teaching in for the next few weeks, in a village called Bhotechaur. I had no prior experience teaching a class, and although it was difficult at first, we quickly...
Last summer I travelled to Nepal to volunteer with HELP (The Helambu Education and Livelihood Partnership), teaching English in a school in Bhirkharka, Helambu. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience that has given me some unforgettable memories. After spending a few days sight-seeing in Kathmandu, I travelled to Bhirkharka, where I I taught children ranging from ages 3 to 14 at Shree Satdhara School. What struck me from the first moments teaching there was that despite their low level of English skills,...
In the summer of 2015, I volunteered for three weeks at New Rise Academy in the village of Kashyem with my friend Rose. Our stay, though brief, was wonderful and memorable. I don’t think a week has gone by since the trip, where Rose and I haven’t fondly recalled memories from our experience in one of our (many) conversations. We stayed at the house of New Rise’s headteacher, Asim, and his family. Asim also had a couple of New Rise students...
I have been out to Nepal with HELP (Helambu Education and Livelihood Partnership, who are supported by MondoChallenge Foundation) 3 times for a total of 5 months. I keep going back because volunteering with HELP is a truly rewarding experience, both in terms of teaching and the level of integration into village life. I taught in a village called Tartong, which has 22 houses and roughly 200 people. The school is relatively small, with only five classes and 60 children...
I visited Nakote village in the Helambu Valley of Nepal in 2012 to volunteer with HELP (Helambu Education and Livelihood Partnership) and MondoChallenge Foundation just after finishing school. The experience was brilliant, hugely eye-opening and totally exhausting! Although we were only there for a relatively short time, getting involved in teaching was great. By the end of the trip, I had a huge amount of respect for the teachers who work there day in day out because of the tough conditions...
In August 2014, I travelled to the Helambu region of Nepal and volunteered with HELP (Helambu Education and Livelihood Partnership) with support from MondoChallenge Foundation. I taught in Shree Narayan School, Ichok, for four weeks. I would typically teach either English or Maths five lessons a day. Whilst teaching, I lived with a local host family who welcomed me from the start and made sure I fully experienced village life. The school was one of the biggest in the region, and...
My visit to Nepal, teaching with Mondo, was one of the most satisfying things I have done. I was met off the plane by the local manager, Ram, and spent a happy couple of days in Kathmandu seeing the sights and getting my bearings. I was a mixture of nerves and excitement to get into the school where I was to spend the next two months. The manger soon took me off to Niketan Samata School just off the impressive...