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Volunteer Service Overseas:
HOPE in this social welfare program organizes a perfect and professional endeavor for providing services voluntarily through efficient use of funds on those areas like education, health, woman rights, ecological conservation and leadership prospective of the people living in the Himalayas.We have been legally registered and permitted by the Govt. of India to accept voluntary Services from interested people all over the world in any fields mentioned above for a specific period of time.
We have a guest book where our volunteers have left their diaries, Two cool volunteer teachers from Sweden; Mr. Tom Svanberg and Mr. Albin Demukaj did a lot for our schools here. Please have a look (Tom & Albins’ Diary)>>
We would gladly accept voluntary service from interested volunteers from all over the world.
Terms and conditions
- Volunteer opting for a teacher can choose from any faculty subjects as
English, science, math's, sports.
- Volunteers opting for working on other social issues such as
Health, research, women rights, ecology.
Can initiate a project to work with our NGO.
- Interested volunteers should have to send their CV, bio-data including their interest, hobbies and the type of food they would like to have while staying here in Kalimpong, Darjeeling (Hill station of the North Eastern Himalayas) and Delhi.
- Volunteers will only work for two to three hours daily and the rest of the time they are free to plan any sort of personal planning as per the interest of the volunteer.
- Sunday and Govt. holidays are complete holidays for every one here in India. (Fridays are half days)
- We also have a team who arrange for short trekking trips, sightseeing, rafting, hiking, camping etc. promoting tourism development in the exotic places of Kalimpong, Darjeeling and Sikkim for the volunteers during their stay with us.For More info>>>
- We would be providing good accommodation with food in a clean environment with a very good bathroom and toilet facilities according to the requirements for a comfortable stay.
1. Duration of stay
- Volunteers have to work and here in Kalimpong, Darjeeling or Delhi for at least a month and stay as long as they wish as per our organisations planned stays of 1, 3, 4, 6 months each year.
- Volunteers wishing to stay more than three months are also welcome and can be arranged by the NGO. as per the request from the volunteer.
- We would suggest volunteers opting for teachers should plan their stay for three months because the yearly academic session is divided into three terms.
- * First term - May, June, July and August.
- * Second term - September, October, November and December.
- * Third term - January, February, March and April.
2. Holidays
* The school, have summer holidays in the mid of June for about 15 days.
* One month long Dashain Festival holiday in October (changeable).
* Winter vacation for about 10 days in January.
3. The Volunteers have to pay a certain amount of program fee for a period of 90 days.
The program fee includes:
- Administrative Charge.
- Accommodation and meals during training and placement.
- Spoken Native language training assistance.
- Supervision.
- Scholarship to students.
- Saving for upcoming project of building an orphanage.
4. Apart from the fee the other costs which is to be met by the volunteers are:
- Flight Cost
- Indian Visa costs
- Transportation
- Immunizations
- Travel Insurance
- Weekly budget for other private expenses. <<Apply online>>
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For further info please contact :
INDIA:
Mahesh Moktan
Program Co-coordinator & Consultant
Himalayan Organisation for Peoples’ Education HOPE
India
Email Add: volunteer@hopedu.org
