Private room ∙ 2 guests | Resort in Patihani

HI,
All helpers, volunteers.travellers in Nepal and friends,
This is good season of travelling to Nepal.
I am Bhawani Devkota.My home is located at Patihani which is closed to Chitwan National Park and Belsahar Community Forest. Chitwan National Park is in ten minutes walk distance and 15 minutes walk distance in east side is community forest .It is 12 KM south from Chitwan Headquarters .you can have public buses and Dhanauji is the place to get off .We belong to middle class in our society. I am living with my two children and husband. My husband is the principal in government school. I was also teacher for 8 years. I travelled to England, France and Spain then I quit my job and started to provide this home stay facilities to the people who interested to travel and experience Asian culture and specially nepali ways of life in cheaper way. Including this Home stay for helper (volunteer)I work as a farmer and helps to the people who are interested in organic farming.
I have been hosting many volunteers who are from around the world came from different organization now I thought why not to provide the facilities of home stay program ?so I began it. This program provides you a wide varieties programs to feel culture and to be a part of Nepali life.
I have seven roomed home in which we stay in three rooms and four rooms are for our helper .In house we have two kitchen one we are using and the other one for volunteers if volunteers want to cook some food themselves. Two bathrooms with shower and two toilets are in home. Two water pumps some goats and a cow and some land where I grow organic vegetables and helper work on the farm is my properties.
• When does helper can come?
Helper (Volunteer) can start any time of the year. During their stay volunteers will have wide varieties of opportunities to interact with indigenous group of Nepal and also can observe their culture and feel the life history of them.
I offer food accommodation for extended stays. I welcome to volunteer (helper), traveler individual or in group. I provide separate rooms with electricity and internet facilities.
We offer opportunities as follows:
• Working in organic farming.
Helper (volunteer) can also be part of the life of organic farming and it's importance. I have my farm (Garden) where I have planted different vegetables and helper will have opportunity to work on the farm to learn about traditional Nepalese organic farming practices.
• Teaching in government schools.
Teaching activities project covers in several community schools of Nepal. The community who are very poor and their kids can not afford additional private English classes to continue with their higher education. Helpers' role can make changes in these children lives many of who dream speaking English.
Community schools are provided a single teacher among 60-100 students.The schools have minimum resources and the class rooms are of basic standard. Any voluntary teaching support is highly appreciated by both teacher and students. While volunteering in school helper will be generally assisted a teacher by providing support to make teaching more effective. If you are experienced teacher you can also provide direct support to the teachers enabling them to enhance their standard of teaching with modern methods.
This is time for plantation so schools have organize plantation projects now.
We have plantation program for helper and volunteers as we just finished plantation in a government school with volunteer from France.
• What skills /qualification you need?
No any special degree or qualification is no required but joining in teaching programs helper should have a good command in written and oral English. Helper are expected to be more flexible and patient .At least you need to have passion and love for teaching English and Children.
• What are your responsibilities?
Helper in teaching projects, Helper need to teach 2-3 hours a day in community schools or in learning centers for six days a week. The age of the students from grade one to ten is between 6 to 16 years. Helpers can organize games, drawing,singing dancing and other creative education and extracurricular activities. Helpers are also expected to help with their homework ,monitoring academic progress and taking kids in educational tour. Each class does have an English text book which follows by a fixed English curriculum and can work as main English teacher or some time assistant to the main teacher depending on your confidence and experience.
• Bio Gas.
Bio Gas is one of our project aiming to decrease upto 0% depending on forest products as cooking fuels. People are depending on forest which cause minimizing the size of forest .Each family does have some cattle's and using the waste of cattle's and even humans' building reactors can convert this raw materials into cooking fuels.
We support people in building reactors with their involvement and this is less expensive in long runs.The communities have well received this projects. Funding to build reactors is the most and valued support which ultimately will be helpful for environment conservation.
• Toilets for community.
We are working in impoverished areas of Nepal where people have enough income to build toilets for family so use the forest and bushes as the toilet.We have developed projects to provide toilets for the community.
• Health Camps.
Our community and children out of medical approaches so lack of medical check ups so we organize health camps in community and in school. Medical practitioner helper can help in this programs .We have done some dental checkups camp and general health check up .We provide tooth pastes and brushes and teach them how to use it.
• WHAT FACILITIES WILL BE FOR HELPER?
Helpers can get tea in the morning,Lunch,dinner(Nepali food Rice ,lentil soup,vegetables and pickle),electricity,wifi ,push bike ,separate rooms and sight seen around chitwan and project areas.
Now Nepali people are celebrating Chaite Dashain.In this festival people offer in Bikram Baba inside Chitwan National Park.To observe culture it can be the best way.
Small parts of donation goes ton upcoming projects bio gas ,toilets,health camps and environment conservation projects.
Including all facilities it would be around USD $5 per day.
Thanks for visiting our profile.I hope i will get the opportunity to host you.
Thanks.
This room has double bed and has two big windows for good view