Background
Although monks spend most of their day in ceremonial practice and worship, you will have the chance to offer your own program of teaching activities during their two hour break around noon.
Challenge
Most of the monks are focused on their religious practices but lag behind in the economic world due to lack of professional skills for employability. They need to be enabled in an economically motivated world.
SBB Intervention
We invite you to create playful, creative and fun teaching activities, both giving the students an opportunity to learn from you as well as giving you a close-up look into the daily life at the monastery. The students usually highly appreciate this worldly change in their schedule and are excited to learn from and about you.
Main tasks of the volunteers:
- Observe the daily life of monks in monasteries
- Assess the English knowledge of the monk students
- Prepare education and lesson plans for the monks and refugees
- Teach the subject (English, French, German, any vocation-cooking, stitching, arts, etc.)
- Give homework and check it
- Come up with activities to improve the skills of the students
- Assess your progress by tests or constant evaluation
- Program Base: Kathmandu
- Project duration: 2 – 24 Weeks
- Joining dates: Open throughout the year
- Arrival date: Saturday or Sunday are preferable, if not weekdays will be managed
- Arrival airport : Kathmandu International Airport
- Beneficiaries: Refugee Monks from Tibet
- Working days: Monday to Friday, Weekends are off
- Total volunteer hours: Based on the availability of the students, usually the first half of the day, generally 25- 30 hours a week
- Weekends: Free to do sightseeing or travel
- Requirements: volunteer needs to have good command of English, relevant skills for teaching a language or a skill
- Pre-arrival assistance
- Detailed pre-arrival orientation and cultural awareness info
- Pick-up from Kathmandu International Airport
- A detailed orientation about Nepal, project, cultural responsibility and things to remember in Nepal
- Accommodation with host family (sharing occupancy)
- Breakfast & Dinner (Home-made Nepalese meals)
- Wi-Fi or internet access
- Guidance to figure out the local transportation
- Drop at Kathmandu International Airport
- Logistics & program assistance if required
- Emergency support
In Kathmandu our team will allocate you with a host family that lives not far from your project. Host families are carefully chosen safe accommodation option to ensure cultural immersion as the volunteers can see the local customs and traditions, share food together and see the neighborhood with their hosts. Hosts are generally an extended family but you can come across nuclear families two, so based on the available number of bedrooms, our teammates decide how many participants can stay in one host family. Breakfast and dinner are included in the program and it is home-made local food while lunch can be easily arranged by the volunteers from nearby the project areas. It’s safe and also affordable and this way volunteers have freedom of choosing what they like once a day.
Facilities at the home-stay :
- Shared bedroom
- Western washroom with toilet & shower
- Hot & cold water
- Filtered water
- Common Fridge
- Common semi-automatic washing machine
- Kitchen access to cook food if wished so
- Wi-Fi or internet Data access
- Family environment
- Comfortable & safe stay option
- Traditional dress workshop
- Henna workshop
- Air fare
- Visa
- Insurance
- Local transportation (mostly on walking distance or support from coordinators)
- SIM card
- Personal expenses
For costs and further details please contact us on info@stepbeyondborders.org