About Program
Volunteers will be working in public schools, teaching with local teachers in Kathmandu Valley. These public schools are in poorer sections of the city, serving children whose parents are day laborers, themselves with little or no education. At each of the schools a NELTA (Nepal English Language Teachers Association) teacher will be there to help with your adjustment to the school, and to the teaching load. With English established as the medium of instruction in Nepal, teachers in most schools face challenges in knowing the language well enough to teach in English, and so they will welcome help from a native-English speaker to improve both their skills and those of their students.
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