VIN has been conducting various activities to support the government to help achieve the goal of "Education for All" by 2015. VIN has set up a Flexible Schooling Programme Class (FSP) at Gangabu, Kathmandu for thechildren
 aged 8-14 with no access of formal schooling. This programme has been implemented in partnerships with CASP/JICA and DEO. There are 22 children benefitting from the programme. All of these children  are either victims of conflicts or orphans or house workers. They have to work hard to survive. They
 come to the class with no textbooks or any stationaries and uniforms. The class has been very supportive for them since they can come to the class in their own time (now afternoon 1:30-5:30) for 4 hours. This programme is for 3 years and after they complete 3 years, they will be admitted to gradeVI in a public school (mother school) nearby.

 

VIN has been conducting different activities (mass communication, drama, door to door visit, children's club, youth development) to mobilize the community so that they would be aware on the importance of education and nobody would miss education. VIN has some finincial constraints to support these children for uniforms and stationary.

 

If you are interested to support these children, then you can make donations either using our website DONATION BUTTON or mailing at donate@volunteeringnepal.org.

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VIN has set up Child Development Centre (CDC) at Panchmane Community, Kathmandu We have 20 children, aged between 4-5 have been benifitting from the programme. The Centre will have to be equipped with child friendly furniture and the materials for the children. This centre has been implementing in partnership with District Education Office (DEO).

VIN also supports 6 CDCs based on 6 schools. At least we need 350 US dallors for each centre to be well equipped. 

Any individual or organization interested to support anyway for this purpose is welcome. you can send us your donations at: donate@volunteeringnepal.org or use our DONATE button.

We aim to promote litaracy rate in the community and our volunteers now have been running literacy classes for women. There are 20-25 women in one class. We have been running this programme with the technical support of DEO, Kathmandu. The women have been very encouraged to learn basic mathematics and nepali alphabets reading.

We have mobilized the local volunteers for the purpose but we can not afford even substance allawances. So if you want to support our local volunteers to promote their work, please contact at: info@vinnepal.org

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VIN has formend 9 groups of women at Jitpur for Income Generation Programme. We have been running this programme in association with District Education Office (DEO) Kathmandu. DEO will provede the technical support and VIN will do the rest. For the purpose, each group has to raise 10,000 Rupees ($150) and we will have to match the funds i.e. VIN will add 10,000 rupees to their funds. Our volunteers team have been conducting different activities to prepare for the programme.

The women have to be busy only in their household chores and they do not have any sources of income. They have to be dependent on their husband. Their husbands also do not have any good source of income and spend their time all day gambling. Their children do not have education materials they need and do not attend school regularly. VIN therefore aims to promote women's skills for generating income providing essential skills, e.g. mushroom producation, candiles making, insence making, bee keeping, goat keeping.

The difficulties of the programme is that the women are finincially so poor and they have said they can not collect that much money. VIN therefore request individuals or organizations to support on the endeavour. Your small contribution will help the women in the community to develop their skills for income generation and can initiate their small business on their own and can support their children education.

If you are interested, please contact VIN.

VIN runs its programmes only after the research in the site and projects are developed based on the research reports. Now our local and international volunteers are collecting data from the community involving the community people. We collect data using the PLA tools. Community Mapping, Focus Group Discussions, Interviews, Problem Tree, Participats Observations have been some of the tools for our staffs and volunteers to use. This picture shows one of the events in the commuity mapping. Community representatives have been involved in the process so that they know the process and can continue later ever after the projects are over. Our team will finish the first phase of data collection by March and we will have detail project planning in April gathering all possible community stakeholders, e.g. leaders, teachers, students, Head teachers, parents, women and local government in the new site.

We provide most opportunities for local people and youths. If we need experts then we recruit the outsiders otherwise only the locals. This has proven the good records for sustainable thoughts of development. 

Come and give your hands for developing the marginalized communities.

Volunteer Initiative Nepal (VIN) conducted a  week long Local Youth Development workshop for the youths of Jitpur Village Development Committee from 7th Feb to 14th Feb, 2007. There were 20 youths, 19 females and one male. One of them was the international volunteer from the US.

The Theme of the workshop was: Youth Volunteers for Community Development. The contents of the workshop were: Volunteerism, Making Change Happen, Facilitation Skills, Community Mobilization skills, Communication and Feedback skills, Child Rights and Participation.

 

The participants were very happy with the contents and techniques covered in the workshop. VIN aims to conduct workshops for teachers, children, Head teachers, Schools Management Groups, Community people in different area shortly.

We are not funded by any organization. If individual or organization is interested to help in these training programmes, we would be greatful and the marginalized groups of people would be advantaged. 

 

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