At the end I’m leaving for Nepal too

My name is Silvia and I’m 28 years old… But it’s been since I was 25 that I dream to go to Nepal as a volunteer.
I’ve been twice in Tanzania for volunteering and it was my best experience of my life.  First time in 2014, second time in 2015. Later I thought I wanted to know a new continent . Asia, why not? I have searched many countries and my favorite is Nepal!

When in 2015 there was the earthquake I thought to go to Nepal to help, but I could not because of my job.  Three years later here I am! I’m organizing my departure for Katmandu. I believe each of us can do a lot with little. For that reason I’m here to ask a little help. Do you want to support the project? I will teach to many children less lucky and underprivileged because of castes or other motivations. We need material for games and primary resources for schools. Development and Play are rights of all world’s children. The name of the Project is “Early Childhood Development”.
Child Development is one of the major programs of VIN’s integrated Community Development Approach. To protect the rights of all children in the Jiptur community by:
Providing them with access to quality basic education
Developing their life skills
Providing access to health services (through our community health program).
If you want to know more about the Project and VIN you can look here https://www.volunteersinitiativenepal.org

I will take part of the project from 1 September to 28 September and I will work 5 days a week and 5 hours a day. I want to do my best!
It will be fantastic to take part all together to the Project, it will be for me like to bring each of you in my new experience.

Volunteering changes completely you inside. It’s not just you who change, but you can see that each of us in our small way can change things, and bring a smile in a person in the opposite side of the world. Not only going in Asia or Africa. I’m sure that your help from your home will make happy each child… Maybe you can send here ( silvia.corio@yahoo.it ), after donation, a picture of you and a written thought for them. I will show with love. I understand that children love to see who helps them, I think this makes them more happy than the help itself.

I really believe safety in numbers!

I will update pictures and news for you… Thank you so much to all!

I can’t wait

Silvia

I welcome readers of all ages, ethnicities, and religious backgrounds to join me in this journey to Nepal so we can learn together how tolerance, love, and compassion can bring healing to the world as a whole.

In October 2017, I will be leaving the comforts of my home in midwest Indiana to learn about the lives of those living in a country where they have electricity only eight hours a day and limited hot water for bathing every few days. Why would I choose this place, of all the places in the world, to give of my time and resources?  Because I was called to do so.

When I get a calling so clear and specific, I cannot ignore it. I was looking for a monastery in the states who needed volunteers a few weeks out of the year but every monastery I contacted led me to Nepal in one way or another.

So, what’s in Nepal? This is where many children are living who are in Exile from their homeland of Tibet. Most of these children have left their families in order to have the opportunity for a better life, better education, and to be able to learn and practice their religion without fear of retribution. The Dalia Lama set up a school in Katmandu for the children from Tibet to have a place to live, learn, and practice their faith. I want to practice with them! I want to live with the monks and nuns. I want to practice my faith with those who can teach me so much more than I will ever learn here in the comforts of my own hometown.

As October approaches, I will be blogging more about the upcoming trip and the needs of the Nepalese people. I am hoping my readers will be called to help support this endeavor and donate to the cause. We will be doing a fundraiser in the summertime to help raise money to help cover misc. costs of being away from work for 8-12 weeks. And during this blog, there will be opportunities for you to donate to help cover the costs of housing and food while I am away.

When I return, I will continue the blog and show pictures of how your money helped those in need in a third world country.

Hi everyone – Gary here with some news that may well surprise or even shock people who know me.
I am returning to teaching! but this time in Nepal, teaching younger kids subjects I have never taught before. Am I completely insane? Well almost! What I am is extremely lucky. Lucky to be able to volunteer my time; lucky to have friends and family who are totally behind me in this venture and lucky as an older volunteer to have had so many years working with children and consequently so much experience to draw from. I also lucky to have won the lottery by being born into a relatively wealthy and secure society and now I feel it is payback time!

I will be teaching kids caught up in the devastating earthquake of 25th April, 2015 in Nepal. The situation there is still desperate. There were over 8500 deaths, over 600,000 houses destroyed meaning that 1.7 million children have been directly affected losing parents, homes and classrooms or through malnutrition, poor hygiene and sanitation and disrupted education. Consequently, I have applied for and have been accepted as a volunteer ‘Teacher for earthquake affected children’ at a school in Thankot near Kathmandu in Nepal.
They are still in need of our urgent support and I was hoping that you might help the charity ‘Volunteers Initiative Nepal‘ by contributing any amount, big or small, to help provide resources for the school to improve the lives of the affected children. Again, I am lucky to be able to finance my own flights and board so all monies donated will go directly to the charity and not me. Simply follow the ‘Donate Now’ link below so that you can easily contribute via Paypal.

I leave the UK for Kathmandu on February 28th 2016 for two months. I don’t know what to expect but I will keep you all posted with regular updates, photos and video of my latest adventure. Can’t wait – Lucky old me!