Nimisha KC

My experience at Volunteer Initiative Nepal (VIN)

Working with an NGO is a real-time experience. It allows us to enable one’s inner talents (soft skills) and provides enough exposure to enhance those skills. I’ve been volunteering here at VIN for the past few weeks, and it has been a great experience. VIN takes in local volunteers as well as international volunteers. VIN has allowed me to enhance my communication and leadership skills and the importance of team bonding. At VIN, I work with international volunteers through which I get to work on my team building and interacting social skills; working with people from different ages, cultures, languages, and backgrounds taught me some valuable things.

While working with VIN, I was sent to volunteer in a summer camp at Nagarjun thulagaun secondary school, Tarkeshwor. It’s a community school, and the children there don’t get the chance to engage in any extra-curricular activities required per their needs. Our volunteers came up with some interactive, team-building, and creative games. The children were so excited about the summer camp. The smiles of the children and the eagerness to learn new things with new people inspired me the most. Kids are a lot of fun, incredible inspiration, and fantastic encouragement as they take you back down memory lane. Kids bring back the child in you, and you go crazier with laughter and happy times. I dove head first into a different culture, but my whole experience was beyond what I could have asked. There, I learned how the early years of a child’s life are essential for cognitive, social, and emotional development. Therefore, after parents, teachers must take the necessary steps to ensure that children grow up in an environment where their social, emotional, and educational needs are met.

“Educating one child won’t change the world, but for that one child, the world will change forever.”