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Community Service in Nepal
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Community Service in Nepal
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In combination to your holiday in Nepal, we help you to engage in community service at different walk of lives. It is better to give than to receive.
Community work at Asha Bidya Ashram, a non profit junior school located at Balaju, 10 kilometer from Kathmandu, could be an ideal place for the students and teachers to contribute their voluntary work in teaching and learning with the kids in the school. The school is sponsored by HOPE World Wide Foundation. There are 135 students enrolled from Grade 1 to 5. The students are selected from the marginalized community and family based on their ability and competence. The school runs adult education programme to teach them basic Nepali, English and airthmatic. The school provides basic infrastructure for teaching and learning work. The students need of school materials for their daily activities.
Responsible Tourism : We have been practicing this since the beginning. Responsible tourism entails least amount of foreign impact on the local culture and environment; and the tourism should contribute to local economy. Apart from this concern, in term of welfare of the porters who we employ to carry baggage on the trek, especially on a long trek we provide warm clothing and footwear and even food in places where they cannot get. This has been part of our routine in the trek. By the same token we always ask member of trekking group to take concern of the welfare of trekking staffs by not endangering their life by risky behaviour and action.
Education: Beside the closed space of the school and university nature and peoples are open place for learning. It is a school and a book for students to observe and learn in the process while visiting foreign land. Raw nature of the mountain and people living simple life would give the students ample time to reflect their own privileged life at home. Self imposed solitude help rejuvenate their strength and energy. The wonder of the Himalaya and people living in its foothill expose students and teachers to another world which are very different from theirs.
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Who will be benefited?:
Ankit Thapa Magar is 8 years old student of grade one. He is from Dhading district of Western Nepal. He is a lone child to his mother. His father deserted the family when he was five. Two years ago his mother migrated to Kathmando in search of better future for her son. She works in weaving factory. She earns around Rs.60 (less than a US $) per day. She was struggling to meet both the ends. Enrolling of Ankit in the school from current session has come as a big relief to his poor and responsible mother. Ankit is bright in study, he has earned a best handwriting prize in the class, recently.
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