Conservation work

Project Summary

Project At A Glance

Location: Chitwan Start point: Kathmandu End Point: Kathmandu Duration: 2-12 weeks Hours: 30-40 hours per week Food: Local food (3 times a day) Room: Host family or hostel Date: First and Third Monday of each month

Deforestation, land fragmentation, and desertification are major environmental problems that Nepal is facing. Our local partner in Chitwan has established a community nursery program aiming to distribute indigenous tree seedlings for free to local farmers, schools, communities, and NGOs. As a volunteer in the conservation work project in Nepal , you support the activities of this community nursery. The works in nursery includes: digging, filling plastic bags, weeding, irrigating, and related works. Volunteers working in a conservation project also work in the nearby vegetable gardens which produce vegetable for local orphans.

Skill/Qualification

There are no specific qualifications for joining the conservation project in Nepal . However, volunteers interested in joining the conservation project should be ready for physically demanding work.

Volunteers responsibilities:

Volunteers working in a conservation project in Nepal will engage themselves in nursery works and care of seedlings and these nurtured seeds will later be distributed to the villagers in various parts of Nepal . The works include: digging, preparing nursery beds, sowing seeds, weeding, trimming, pruning, filling plastic bags, applying water, and any work related to nursery. Other tasks may include planting, collecting seeds, replanting, eliminating diseased tress and inventory of fauna and flora depending on the season

IFRE presently supports a small orphanage and school in Chitwan. So, volunteers working in a conservation project can teach English or work in the orphanage in free time. This can be arranged up on your arrival in Nepal .

Room/Food/supervision

IFRE arranges room, food, and supervision for volunteer from the start to the end of program. During the first week of language and cultural program, volunteers stay in our hostel in Kathmandu . Our hostel in Kathmandu is located in the heart of the city giving easy access to volunteer to all parts of the city. In the hostel, we have 2 experienced cooks. Our cooks make Nepali food (very near to Indian food and includes wheat bread, rice, curry, Dal, chapatti, pickle) for you. As a part of the language and cultural program, you will stay for 2-3 days in a host family where your host will cook food for you.