Nepal Volunteer Travel

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Karoline and her experience in Nepal

Karoline
My volunteer visit to Nepal was amazing! The people were friendly and welcoming, and the diverse landscape was amazing. The day I started my Language and Culture class, I looked out the window and asked my instructor if the mountains I saw in the distance got snow. She giggled and told me those weren’t mountains, they were hills. She promised I’d see real mountains when we went into Kathmandu later in the day. As I walked over a bridge to get to Kathmandu Dubar Square, I looked towards the “hills” and saw beautiful white peaks behind them. I was amazed to see the mighty Himalayas!! Now, THOSE were mountains!

Everywhere you look in Nepal is another treasure for the senses. The beautiful, ancient architecture marries beautifully with the chaos of the city. The hustle and bustle of everyday life contrasts sharply with the shrines that seem to be everywhere, yet at any given moment, one can hear the chiming of a bell that signifies someone has uttered a prayer. The spiritual and the corporal intertwine in a beautiful dance.
If Kathmandu is the center of city life, then Pokhara is its quieter, gentler sister.

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The 8 hour bus ride to Pokhara treats the traveler to amazing agricultural landscapes. The road also follows a river, which is serene in some places and has tumbling rapids in others. Once in Pokhara, the lake is the main attraction. Calm and quiet, it gently beckons the traveler to take a boat ride and explore its many outlets. The highlight of my time there was seeing the rays of the rising sun shine on the snow capped peaks of the Anapurana mountain range. I am not eloquent enough to fully describe the beauty of that moment.Once back in Kathmandu, I spent a week at my assigned orphanage. The girls were wonderful! I learned so much from them! I only hope I made at least a small difference in their lives. These were sweet, beautiful girls with inquisitive minds. It was my privilege to serve them.I miss many things about my time in Nepal. I miss the chaos of the city, the beauty of the scenery, and the depth of the culture. However, the thing I miss the most is the warm and welcoming people.My life perception has been changed by the people I have met and by the extraordinary children I served. Friendships were made and sealed by fun and laughter. The world has become smaller and my mind has become broader by this amazing experience. NAMASTE!!

 

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Vision

VISION

Our vision is of a world not only governed by economic logic. Our vision is of a world that puts in first place the human value, is that of a world that gives top priority to the value of sharing and aid. Our vision is of a world where people travel to discover and blend in with the rest of the world, sharing the beauty and the social problems of the latter. Our vision is of a world made up of people that whatever they do, trying to make her make the earth a better place for all.

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Mission

MISSION

Our mission is to promote the growth of sustainable tourism in Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world and at the same time one of the most beautiful and unspoiled. We want to promote volunteering in Nepal and provide to our volunteers an unforgettable experience and useful for their personal growth.

 

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Values

Discovery: We firmly believe in the value of the discovery as a means of human and personal growth. Travel, explore the world and its most remote corners, we think it’s not an experience that has a beginning and an end. Once you start the journey, opening your mind every day more, you wont stop because you will draw a personal benefit first.

Sustainability: Another kind of turism is possible. Travel and discover the world is one of the most interesting and inspiring activity that the man do since the dawn of time, so why don’t take advantage of your passion for travel and try in one’s own small way to make the world a better place? We think that combine a passion for travel in a volunteer activity is the key to transforming a simple vacation into unforgettable and sustainable human experience.

Peace: We are totally against any form of violence. We believe that world peace is an unattainable utopia until the people do not begin to see themselves as part of one great nation. that’s why we try to connect people far and from very distant universes.

Adventure:  One of the most easy way to know better himself is by putting to the test himself. So what could be better than left his own world and accept the challenge to change habits, culture, weather and certainties? Is there something better than help people in need and improve our own skills at the same time?

Trust: Trust is one of our core values. This value has been based all professional relationships that led to the realization of nepalvolunteertravel.org and partnerships with NGOs working for years in Nepal. We deeply trust in our partners and we work every day to strengthen the trust of our volunteers.

Equality: We firmly believe that all the people in the world are equal and no one of them deserve to be forgotten. Calamity, wars and poverty conditions often do not allow to satisfy the basic human needs and don’t guarantee the equality between different populations in terms of opportunity. That’s why we work every day, to reduce that gap. 

 

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Who are we?

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Bimal Osti
NepalVolunteerTravel.org is a trading name of ‘Youth Crew Company’ Limited by Guarantee’ and is a website specially set up to make it easy and affordability to travel and volunteer in Nepal.
Youth Crew was born in 2015 from another project based in Dublin: Help Stay. The platform, created in 2014, was founded with the aim of inspiring people to travel in an autonomous and independent way and turn their holidays into a human experience in order to generate (human) values and a sustainable travel platform. The aim was therefore to create a sort of window that could display all the opportunities for a sustainable holiday in human terms. After the success of Help Stay, the project creators met Bimal Osti, the founder of Moonlight Children’s Home and decided to found Youth Crew to give life to other voluntary projects with more specific focus. And this is why the creation of Nepal Volunteer Travel. Nepal is one ofthe poorest countries in the world, one of the wildest and one of the most beautiful. Undoubtedly, it is also one of the most in need of help. Moreover, it’s a particularly safe and quiet country, with a friendly population and willing to welcome strangers.

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