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Internship Nepal
By arrna Published: 07/31/2010
Internship Nepal (IN) is a volunteer and internship program run by Volunteer Forum Nepal (VFN)-- a non-governmental, non-profit organization. The IN program is committed to personal development through excellence in experiential education. It was conceptualized by a team of professionals, including journalists, university professors, social workers, ex-volunteers as well as interns.
Internship Nepal believes that internships provide the best way for people to become aware about their future career. Learning by doing and being exposed to professionals working in the field provides valuable experience, a professional reference, which often leads to a position, upon graduation. The relevance of such a program to students is manifold.
Active learning by participants, inclusion of disciplined reflection about individual goals, inter-cultural competence, and personal attention from Internship Nepal's staff are at the heart of IN’s mission. Originally, this program was launched in November 2005.
IN is also involved in supporting some of the most underprivileged children of the country, in an effort to improve their education and development at the grassroots level, by awarding scholarships for primary and secondary education and strengthening community organizational capabilities.
Internship Nepal provides a great opportunity to visit Nepal, help Nepalese communities to support different activities, to gain cultural experiences, knowledge about Nepalese society, history and much more. It also provides opportunity to volunteers for conducting research works. IN has many rural locations in Nepal where it can place volunteers from one month to five months.
Our organization has already provided a quality internship for over fifty individuals since we were founded three years ago. We offer full cultural emersion for the curious students interested in enriching their educational experience through overseas training/exposure. Our students are given lodging with trusted Nepali families in both urban and rural locations and are placed in a healthy and professional work environment where they are trained by qualified experts in their field.I first came to Nepal in February of 2004. I would only be here for a short time then, I was floating a trial balloon; but when it was time to go I was filled with both dread, and a comfort, knowing that my compass had been set and the direction was clear. Nepal was to be my near and long term future.
Writing now, 15 months later, it feels as if I have always lived here, and it is hard to imagine a life anywhere else. I actualy suffer from a mild case of anxiety when a rare trip back to the states comes about, and my life in Nepal goes with me and monopolizes all of my thoughts while I am away.
I have never before in my 52 years woken up each morning with so much enthusiasm and joy for an environment. I rise around 5 am and go to my back porch and look down upon the early parade of colorful Saris walking about. My eyes see snow capped peaks in the distance, Buddhist prayer flags, their colors washed out by the sun,wave gently in the early morning breeze. The sounds of chanting mix with commerce, and children playing, the air is energized, and people everywhere greet you like an old friend each time they pass you during the day.
Nepal welcomes you in a way that you couldn't ever expect. They embrace whatever reasons you might have in being here and ask for nothing in return. And when you have made a decision to step into their lives you will be rewarded a thousand times over each day with the most heartfelt smiles, and shy hugs.
As I became immersed in this life, and my Volunteernepal, and Papa’s Home NGO's gained traction, and the students at my school, and the children at Papa’s Home grew comfortable with the idea that I was not leaving, they shared an even more intimate closeness with me, born of trust. I have learned from the hundreds of Nepalese people who have come into my life, what the real purpose of life is. I go to sleep each night filled with a sense of joy and awe that this life is mine.Nepali Maoist Combatant
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