Volunteer Opportunity

Strengthen your mind, heart, and soul by giving your time to others. Volunteering abroad is a wonderful way to provide a service, integrate with the local community, and earn a sense of personal reward during your language and cultural study. You can make a difference in the lives of the people you meet, and they will certainly make a difference in yours!

CLCT sponsors and organizes a number of volunteering activities. Through these activities, we wish to help our international students get to know different life and people in Nepal, and have an opportunity to do volunteer work and offer help to the needy. We also hope that students will avail this opportunity to understand different cultures and build friendship across ethnic, national and cultural differences.
As an international volunteer, you will make a meaningful contribution, working side-by-side with local people and sharing in the goals of a community that warmly welcomes you. You will experience another culture like never before and really getting to know its people. You will gain new perspectives and insight into the culture and yourself. It's an exciting and personally inspiring experience, and you will develop memories that will be with you forever.

CLCT offers a wide variety of volunteer projects, including: social services, orphanage, health/medical, education/tutoring, and more. Not sure what you want to do, but know you want to do something? Well, we will recommend projects and destinations that best fit your schedule, budget, skills, needs, and goals.
Our programs include guaranteed placements, housing, visa and travel assistance and pre-departure and local support. Projects range from one week to long-term.

Language and Orientation Training:
Initially, you will participate in a 3-5 day language and orientation training programme designed to ensure a smooth transition into Nepali culture life and a productive contribution to the local community. The orientation will provide you with extensive information about your new work situation, as well as tips on handling intercultural issues.

Training will include:

• Introduction about placement/ volunteer responsibility

• Nepali cultural orientation / do’s and don’ts in Nepal

• Basic Nepali language classes

• Personal safety/health /communication system

• Sightseeing/ travel and tours information

• Food/Accommodation and Supervision

We make sure that an appropriate provision for food, room and supervision is provided for our volunteers from the very beginning of their arrival to the country. During your respective volunteering programs, your accommodation will be provided by a host family. However, volunteers joining in orphanage program will stay with the children in the same orphanage.

Eligibility and Skills Required

• Minimum age 18 years.

• You do not need any formal relevant training or experience to participate, but whatever experience you do have will be taken into account when arranging your day-to-day activities.

• Volunteers need to be independent, enthusiastic and adaptable, hard-working with an open-minded attitude.

Fees
We offer one of the most affordable program fees in this competitive and expensive time. Compared to many international and local agencies, our fees our substantially lower. But we are committed to providing excellent, quality volunteer programs that efficiently use the amount we receive. Currently the program fee is figured as follows (in USD). There is no hidden cost associated with our program.

• 2 Weeks - USD 300

• 3 Weeks - USD 400

• 4 Weeks - USD 500

• 6 Weeks - USD 600

• 8 Weeks - USD 700

• 12 Weeks - USD 900

• Each Additional month USD 20

The program fee covers

• Food and accommodation (Nepali standard) with host family during placement.

• Transportation (pick up and drop off to/from airport and placement)

• Intensive training and orientation appropriate to the length of your stay.

• Stationeries during training and volunteering.

• Supervision

The fee does not cover

• Insurance (medical, travel, personal belongings)

• Food and hotel cost in Kathmandu prior to your arrival in Pokhara.

• Flight or land transportation from your country to Nepal.

• Personal expenses (ie. gift items, beverage, water bottle)

• Trekking, rafting, other adventure activities.

• Visa renewal and obtaining.

• Other expenses in incidental cases.

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