Volunteer Program

Our Volunteer Program is the lifeblood of our organization, bringing passionate individuals from across the globe to the heart of Chitwan. We offer a unique opportunity for volunteers to immerse themselves in Nepali culture while contributing their skills and energy to meaningful projects. It's a transformative experience of cultural exchange and hands-on service.

Volunteers can participate in a wide range of activities, from teaching in local schools and assisting at our health clinic to joining environmental clean-up drives and working at our elephant dung paper facility. We provide a supportive and structured environment, ensuring that your time with us is both impactful for the community and personally rewarding for you.

Impact and Future Goals

Volunteers work in: Environment - Teaching environmental awareness and waste disposal skills Elephant welfare and training Elephant Dung Paper Project: product development and marketing Teaching in orphanages and monasteries Health education Community Welfare and Women's Empowerment issues (Tharu Cultural Museum) Green Society Nepal Website development. There are other opportunities for Professional people (Retired or Career Break) to offer vocational skills training, such as: Electrical work Plumbing Clothes making and sewing Painting and decorating Hotel management, catering, service industry.

Objectives: To maintain and encourage a volunteer program, to build on established international contacts and ties, to update news of Volunteer programs through Facebook, the Green Society Nepal and Hotel Parkside's websites and all available marketing tools. Who benefits: the local community, Hoteliers and HA, local businesses, Chitwan National Park, children, teachers. Typical Program. One Week Day 1. Arrival at Hotel Parkside, orientation and introduction to program. Elephant safari and elephant bath at river. Tharu Cultural Show in evening. Day 2. Breakfast. Visit Tharu village and Cultural Museum. Lunch. Project work. Visit to Elephant breeding centre. Dinner with host family, Nepali food. Day 3. Early morning canoe trip, bird watching Breakfast Project work Lunch Project work Dinner Hotel Day 4. Walk around village. Breakfast. Visit Elephant Dung Paper factory. Lunch. Project Work. Dinner Host family, Nepali food. Day 5. Breakfast. Meeting with Sauraha Hotel Association. Project work. Lunch. Project Work Dinner Hotel Day 6. Breakfast Visit Women's Community Project Project Work Lunch Project work Dinner Hotel Day 7. Breakfast. Farewell. Departure 9.00am for Bus Park, return to Kathmandu. Program Length Volunteers can arrange to stay any amount of time to suit them, UP TO the maximum allowed 5 months under Nepal Government Tourist Visa regulations.