Asia Horizon is continuously working for the welfare of children in close collaboration with several Cambodian Community organizations to provide support for the destitute children at Childcare Centers. As a child care volunteer in Cambodia, you can make a great difference in the life of orphans and destitute children.
Project Information
Working in an orphanage gives you a wonderful opportunity to share your love, skills and energy with poor children. Due to a declining economy and a fragile political situation, the economic condition of Nepal is shrinking day by day. Following a popular uprising in April 2006, the country ended an eleven-year conflict with the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement. This eleven-year conflict has displaced about 300,000 people, leaving many children parentless and has set Nepal's social progress seriously back. Many children lack the opportunity of schooling. It is estimated that there are 127,143 children working in the worst forms of child labor - as bonded laborers, rag pickers, porters, domestic workers, in the carpet sector and being trafficked. As a result they involve themselves in dangerous activities such as crime, drug, prostitution, stealing and abusing.
Various community organizations are active in setting up orphanage centers in Nepal to keep the ever-growing number of orphans and give them a safe and homely environment with an access to education, vocational training and health care. Asia Horizon has established child welfare centers and schools in Chitwan and Kathmandu. Asia Horizon also cooperates with various orphanages and childcare centers in Nepal to improve the lives of some of these most neglected children. We always expect your support to bring a great difference in the lives of these destitute children.
As a substitute to their parents, your support to these vulnerable children will be most precious gift for them. You will assist and teach to orphans and also help to develop creative programs such as art, music, dance, sports, health, hygiene and cooking. Moreover, you are equally motivated to assist the local staff with administration work, care takers, local staffs, assisting a child with extracurricular activities such as singing, dancing and painting.
Project Skills Required
No specific qualification and working experiences are required for the volunteers working with orphans and disabled children in childcare centers. However, the basic requirements are genuine interest and commitment to the Nepalese culture and openness to learn and help disadvantaged children. Kindness, flexibility and learning capacity are also the basic characteristics that volunteers should have. You must be above 18 years of age and should have love and care for the children, committed to work, learning and unbiased because you are the role model to those children.
Project Location
Project placements are available in Kathmandu and Chitwan.
Kathmandu: The capital city of Nepal, Kathmandu is home to most of the government offices, embassies, and corporate houses. Kathmandu is also known as the city of temples and historically significant monuments. This is why the small city harbors more than half a dozen of ancient historical places and heritages, which are listed in World Heritage Site. This small and beautiful city has topographical variation and cultural diversity.
Chitwan: Located in plain belt of the country, Chitwan is one of the most known tourism hubs in Nepal. It is 150km far from Kathmandu valley that is 5 hours by driving and 20 minutes by air flight. One can enjoy the bliss of nature by traveling to another World Heritage Listed magnificent place known as Chitwan National Park. Participants will experience Elephant riding for Jungle Safari to witness one-horned Rhino, Royal Bengal Tiger, leopards, crocodiles and several kinds of deer, Canoeing with the splendid view of sunrise and sunset. Besides, visit to Tharu village and Cultural immersion programs are the major attractions of the place.
Nepal Program Fee and Dates
Program Date:
Asia Horizon volunteer Program starts every 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month. Asia Horizon volunteer Program begins with your arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport on Sunday, the day before of your project. A one-day orientation about the program including project sites, types of work, local food, climate, safety issues, health issues, culture people etc. will be provided in Kathmandu office before you start the project.
Program Fees: Our program fee is 80-100% less than most international volunteer organizations.
| 1 weeks |
$190 |
7 weeks |
$540 |
What does fee cover?
What doesn’t fee cover? |
| 2 weeks |
$290 |
8 weeks |
$590 |
| 3 weeks |
$340 |
9 weeks |
$640 |
| 4 weeks |
$390 |
10 weeks |
$690 |
| 5 weeks |
$440 |
11 weeks |
$740 |
| 6 weeks |
$490 |
1 2 weeks |
$790 |
- Language and Program fee for first week: $185
- Language and program fee for second week: $235
Food and accommodation
ASIA HORIZON makes an appropriate provision for food, room and supervision for its volunteers from the very beginning of their arrival to the end of their project. During the first week of language and cultural program, ASIA HORIZON manages you a clean and pleasant hostel having food facility where cooks prepare a variety of Nepali food three meals a day. A typical lunch includes Dal, Bhat, Curry, Bread, and Pickle, Tea etc with occasional supplement of chicken or mutton. For your convenience, they will make continental and international food as well. If you want to have you meal outside then there are several best hotels and restaurants in the country where you can easily access and the food of your choice with reasonable price. During volunteers’ respective volunteering programs, a host family will be provided for their accommodation. You cannot expect a luxurious stay in Nepalese host family. However ASIA HORIZON arranges a separate room along with a communal bath for volunteers in both the host families and hostel accommodations. Sometimes you may share your room with other volunteers if the number is large. In the placement, volunteers are expected to assist household chores such as cleaning, washing, fetching, taking care of children and old persons. Besides, Nepali people are extremely hospitable, warm and welcoming and volunteers are well treated wherever they go.
Visa Information
Any traveler in Nepal can stay on a tourist visa for 3 months each year at $1 per day rate. You may obtain visas from Nepalese embassy in your country or upon arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport.
You are allowed to stay up to 120 days on a tourist visa, and then for any extension up to 150 days total, but you are required to show an airline ticket with a suitable date on it, and this ticket must be in OK status (i.e. not wait-listed)
Asia Horizon suggests that ALL volunteers get tourist visa in their home country BEFORE arriving in the host country to avoid any unnecessary hassle at the airport.
Working and Safety Issue
Living and working in a poor country is really challenging. It demands courage, some experiences and the ability to adapt. It can be overwhelming to adjust in a completely new environment. The climate, food, and atmosphere – everything is different than your hometown. You will be faced with a harsh social reality every day of your volunteer work and experience things a tourist never sees.
Independence, maturity, flexibility and the desire to do social work are required if you want to take part in the volunteer work program. Asia Horizon takes full responsibility for your safety and tries its level best to bring sense of security and peace of mind in you from the time of your first arrival to the completion of your project in a host country. When we receive your flight information, we will make the necessary arrangements here for your airport pick-up. Generally, volunteers arrive on Sunday. Our country coordinator will be there to welcome you at the airport, to pick up and take you to your accommodation, and you will receive basic orientation about your itinerary and placement along with a comprehensive briefing on the country and specific locale by the coordinator and transfer to the project on the following day or after the one week orientation. The staff/ coordinator will accompany you until you have a sense of complete safety. You are allowed to contact 24/7with an assigned person directed by Asia Horizon during your stay. We will be fulfilling our additional duties such as monitoring, guiding and counseling. Our staff/ coordinator will be there all the time supporting and coordinating you. |
