About

The Montessori pre-school offers schooling for children from Play Group until they enter primary school. The school management team provides financial support to pay for the teachers and other infrastructure. This Montessori is newly established and planned to provide a positive and homely environment for the children.

The Students in the Montessori School come from the nearby village and city. Most of them come from families with various financial backgrounds. The aim of the project is to provide English language education through an empowering environment, so the children develop their English communication and writing skills and strengthen their overall development.

Location

Kathmandu

Accommodation

You will be staying at our volunteer house in Kalanki, Kathmandu, which has multiple bedrooms, western style toilets and running tap water. You will spend a night in the house, and you will be transferred to your placement the day after. You will also be provided with an orientation class about general information about Nepalese cultures, customs, and dress code, about the project and your roles and responsibilities.

Child Protection

Please note that you will be required to sign ICYE’s policy Care to Engage on Safeguarding Children.

Volunteer tasks

The volunteers support with the overall development of the children, as prescribed by the Montessori school. You will be especially supporting the listening and speaking classes. You will also organise various extracurricular learning activities for the students like health and civic education, educational games, drawing, painting, sports, quiz contest, awareness raising activities in the community, debate, music class etc.

Other activities could include:

• Go hiking, do educational tours and other activities so the students can have real experiences in their learning.
• Be a role model. Smoking and drinking are forbidden in front of students.
• Teach extra English language classes for students if they eager to learn either after school or in holidays. if the school is closed.

Volunteer requirements

There are no specific skills and qualifications needed to join this project. However, you must be above 18 or equivalent and should have a strong passion to live and work with the rural Nepalese communities.

Additonally, you should:

• Show enthusiasm, the ability to maintain motivation and reliability
• be flexible, open-minded, and humble. You must respect Nepalese people, cultures, and traditions to be a part of this project.
• come with some basic knowledge of Nepalise – we require candidates to take language course before joining the project.
• The candidate should have computer skills.
• Take advantage of Your Experience to ensure to bring a positive change and create possible impact on both side you and project.
• Be interested in working with children