The Global Volunteer Network currently has volunteer opportunities available through our partner organization in the beautiful Kingdom of Nepal. Volunteers have the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational and community aid programs. These include teaching English, working in an orphanage,community health and environmental program, school and community maintenance, and a home stay/cultural exchange program.

In a typical placement volunteers stay in a family where they get Nepali food twice a day (around 9 o' clock in the morning and 7 o' clock in the evening). Tea is served in the morning and in the afternoon. Volunteers will have the opportunity to get together with other volunteers and share their experience. You will be able to travel to nearby towns to purchase things for daily use and could travel to other areas on longer vacation. Besides your project work, volunteers can utilize their spare time in organizing the youth and women's groups of the community to do some worthwhile activities like building a smokeless stove, toilet by using local materials, making a soak pit, kitchen gardening, making a solar dryer, garbage management or paper recycling.

For more information, please visit the GVN site.

7-Oct-2008: Alyson Hard - Vietnam and Cambodia

After visiting Vang Vieng and Vientiane, in Laos, the three of us had to say goodbye to our travel group. From Vientiane (the capital of Laos) we caught a long, bumpy bus ride to Hue, Vietnam. We spend only a few hours in Hue before getting on another bus to Hoi An, Vietnam. Hoi An was a very charming, old fashioned city with a lot to see and do. We walked along the river in the old town, took a b...

• Alyson Hard - Vietnam and Cambodia
• Jessica Solomon - Arriving in Nepal
• Kristie Kline - Back in Thamel
• Ruchi Hazaray - Bustachhap, Nepal
• Lynda Brownlow - Lynda Brownlow
• Bea Foster - I just cant stay away
• Sam Shetler - The poor get poorer
• Padma Knight - saying good-bye
• Phil Vince - Placement Over
• Colleen Freake - Finishing Placement