Volunteer in Nepal with The Mountain Volunteer
Current Volunteer Opportunities PDF Print E-mail

Medical Internship

During this month long volunteer program you will make daily rounds with a Nepali doctor, participate in all phases of the hospital operations and even scrub in to observe surgical procedures. There will be lectures from the Doctors ...

Children's Home

Orphanages are largely unregulated by the Nepalese government. No one in Nepal is quite sure how many children have been adversely effected by the last decade of internal conflict One estimate is that 10,000 have been ...

School for Children with HIV

HIV is a great taboo in Nepal, and infected individuals face stigma and discrimination everyday. Children are expelled from public schools and don't receive any education. Often they come from poor families, have lost ...

Women's Rights

Marriage comes early in Nepal. Women born in the late 1970s married at a median age of 16. And motherhood is particularly dangerous. Nepal is the “deadliest place in the world to give birth outside Afghanistan and a ...

Teaching English

We have many different volunteer opportunities for teaching English, with the possibility of combining teaching at several places or with volunteering in an orphanage or at a day-care center. Our teaching placements include ...

Tibetan Refuges and other Himalayan Ethnic Minorities

The Tibetan minority in Nepal face numerous obstacles in their daily life, ranging from poverty and low literacy levels to discrimination and legal uncertainty. Many do not have Nepali citizenship, which restricts ...

Administrational and Organizational Placements

Many Nepali organizations face difficulty attracting professionals with experience in organization, marketing, fundraising and writing grant applications, etc. These volunteer placements differ widely depending on your skills and ...

Combination Placements

Many volunteers find that they wish to take up an extra part-time placement when they arrive in Nepal. This is particularly true for volunteers at children’s homes, who find their mornings and early afternoons empty ...