WNSO
has been implementing the European Voluntary Services (EVS) program in
Kathmandu with coordination of CEIPES. This is a
group EVS project which has been managing 4 volunteering placements in Nepal.
There are 4 sending countries: Italy, France, Spain, and Netherlands. The service is
funded with the support of the European Voluntary Service (Youth in Action
Program of the European Commission). The main
themes are anti-discrimination and human rights education. The project main
aims are to contribute to create a culture of peace and human rights for all
and to enhance active participation through volunteering. The methodology used throughout the project
is in the framework of the non-formal education and peace education approach:
experiential learning, cooperative learning, active participation, learning by
doing. These is used at a transverse level in the partnership development,
volunteers training and support, visibility and exploitation activities. In
summary, the aim of the project is to help the community especially those in
the orphanage and the disabled, and work with peers of schools/colleges for the
inclusion and promote the Inter Cultural Learning among volunteers. This
project has been implementing since May and will be continued on September,
2012.
Under
this project, the key activities are as follows;
Activity 1 – Volunteers for
Youth Human Right Education Club (HRE Club) at Higherschools/colleges students
in Kathmandu valley
CCRC
College, Kumaripati and SV College, Sankhamul are selected for the HRE club and
HRE is continued since project inception in Nepal.
Activity
2 -
Assistance for people with disabilities at School of Disabled
SERC School of
Disability, Baluwatar is selected for the support to children with disability
and it has initiated since April 2012.
Activity
3 - Organize leisure activities in an orphanage
Pabitra
Orphange and Himalayan Orphanage, Dhapasi are selected for the support
activities to the orphanages children.
Furthermore, international volunteers are
working together with Nepalese volunteers to get the knowledge, insights and
ideas in different field of Intercultural learning. In this way the project is implementing under
the coordination of WNSO and mobilize the volunteers as active actors in the promotion of this
culture of peace and human rights, demonstrating, developing
Expected
learning outcomes are as follows;
- Basic English and Nepalese
language knowledge;
- Ability to work in group as
a team
- Creativity; Relations
management ability;
- Intercultural skills and
attitudes;
- Specific competences
related with the tasks carried out: skills to work with children, disabled
youth and youth in general, understanding of group dynamics, capacity to manage
a group, skills in non-formal education activities, knowledge about human
rights, ability to organize an activities’ schedule for a youth club, help to orphanage
kids for personal development, knowledge and ability to mentor youth with
disabilities, values and attitudes of solidarity and support to other, etc.
