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Volunteer 5 :
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Janie Leblanc,
Canada/2002 |
My
Experience with TEKA SAMUHA NEPAL:
Teka
is
a very serious, good-hearted and devoted organization; I
can affirm this from experience because I joined TEKA as
an oversea volunteer. In fact, I am a 20 year-old
Canadian woman who decided to come to Nepal to teach
English and work in several different organizations and
all of that under Anil Adhikari (Teka's Program
Coordinator) 's supervision. I had been in Nepal for
about a week and planned on staying for three more
months.
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TEKA provides several types of very helpful services to
its volunteers such as Nepali language lessons, family
stay programs, working opportunities in schools,
children and women centers, environmental campaigns and
many more…As I had witnessed since I arrived in
Kathmandu, TEKA makes sure that every volunteer's stay
in Nepal is a success by supervising
their individual programs daily. I highly appreciate the
30-hour nepali language teaching because, in my opinion,
it gave me the chance to adapt easily, or at least more
easily (!), to our new, and at first pretty shocking
(!), cultural environment, more particularly to the
Nepali family. The home stay program enables the
volunteers to witness Nepali's own special culture daily
and, in that manner, to understand, with a more
objective point of view, the purposes of their cultural
gestures and actions. The families chosen to receive
volunteers are close relatives of TEKA's workers hence
you are guaranteed to be welcomed in a good-hearted and
very friendly family. |
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Janie with Primary Level girls student in
Padmakanya School, Kathmandu, 2002 |
During my stay, I had an opportunity to see the Nepali
wedding and that was non of other than Anil and my host
family sister Sangeeta. I could see the detail procedure
of Nepalese marriage ceremony and I believe that was my
most wonderful and nice time in Nepal.
Also, if you wish, TEKA makes sure that you have seen
all the important temples and different juristic places
in Kathmandu as well as Nepal's natural countryside such
as Pokhara and Chitwan National Park. However,
everything depends on your wishes: TEKA arranges a
program for you depending on your desires and gives huge
importance to every of your feelings and opinions. So, I
can affirm without a doubt that you won't be
disappointed or deceived if you decide to join this very
inspiring Nepali organization. If you have any
questions, don't hesitate to e-mail me
jany_007hotmail.com…I hope you are not too confused now!J ) ! |
