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Handmade tea and eastern Nepali culture experience

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The experience

During the period there will be different seasonal help that volunteers will be needed. Around Jan-Mar will be cleaning, cutting and pruning of tea bush. Apr-May the first flush (premium tea) harvesting season. Jun-Sep summer harvesting of tea. Oct-Dec will be autumn harvesting of tea. The months are approx as it depend on the weather. Help with our small vegetable garden and some farm animal will always be there.

What you offer

15 hours of help per week

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 8 Per day

Fee pays for: Materials for volunteer activities

Description: As we are a small scale farm in a remote area the fee will contribute to volunteers food and accommodation.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Beginner English

Over 20 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

What we offer as a unique opportunity is the experience of different hand made teas from Ilam, Nepal. As with that, black and green teas are always there to drink almost whenever you want. Additionally the meals will always be simple home made typical nepali and vegetarian. We make an effort to provide with our own garden produced fresh vegetables. We are always happy to answer your interest. As such we also hope you will be a respectful volunteer who also show interest in tea, our culture and our lifestyle during the volunteering period.

Activities & Shift

The daily schedule varies depends on the season. But basically our dal bhat (Nepali meal) around 10:00-10:30 am before that usually after 8 am tea is available. Then the work is from around 11:30 am - 2:30 pm. Then it is free to do what you want. Then at evening the dal bhat is around 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm. Our nepali bedtime is around 9:00 pm-9:30pm.
Sunday and Thursday are day offs. There is a local market on Thursday which you can visit to see the local product. You can always explore the villages around at those time.

Rules

As we have said before we hope you will respect our nepali society, culture and tradition. We are very open to learn new thing within our norms but if there will be some issues we will let you know and hope for your understanding.