Volunteer Summer Nepal

Regd No: 830/2068 SWCN: 34538

Volunteer Summer Nepal

Thuli Besi

Thuli besi is a unique village that lies in Marshyangdi Rural Municipality in the Annapurna circuit. The road access links the village to other parts of the country. This village is in very beautiful location with very friendly peoples. The culture and living systems of this village is unique. Different hydro power projects are under construction in this area and social transformation from pristine lifestyle to modernity is rapid. The awareness increasing programs are needed in this area. John wood was inspired and changed when he came here. His love of reading with children of a rural Nepali village has quickly become a global movement of promoting literacy and education. By the end of 2009, we counted over 7500 libraries, 830 schools, and nearly 8800 girls attending school by way of Room to Read scholarships. He plans to open 10,000th library in 2010 and impact the lives of five million children in the developing world.

The Story

In 1998, John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft when he took a vacation that changed his life. What started as a trekking holiday in Nepal became a spiritual journey and then a mission: to change the world one book and one child at a time by setting up libraries in the developing world. He was soon driven to leave his career with only a loose vision of the change he wanted to bring to the world. In 1998, John took a vacation that changed his life. Trekking through a remote Himalayan village, he struck up conversation with a schoolteacher, who invited John to visit his school. There, John discovered that the few books available were so precious that they were kept under lock and key – to protect them from the children! Fewer than 20 books, all backpacker cast-aways, were available for more than 450 students.

What started with a simple email requesting friends donate used books has grown into Room to Read, an award winning non-profit that over the past nine years has established over 7,500 libraries, donated and published 6 million books, built over 830 schools, and funded over 8,800 long-term scholarships for girls – impacting the lives of over 3.1 million students worldwide.
John strives to bring the lessons of the corporate world to the non-profit sector. Room to Read combines his passion with the discipline of a well-run global company. He has been described by Fast Company Magazine as “all heart, all business.”

John has received countless honors for his work, including recognition as a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum and as one of Time Magazine’s “Asian Heroes.” Room to Read is a five-time winner of Fast Company Magazine’s Social Capitalist Award, a recipient of the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Innovation, and a recipient of Draper Richards Fellowship for social entrepreneurs.

John holds a Bachelors of Science, magna cum laude, from the University of Colorado, and a Masters of Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He lives and works in San Francisco, CA.

John made the unlikely marriage between Microsoft business practices and the world of non-profits to create Room to Read, an organization that has created a network of over 7,500 libraries and 830 schools throughout rural and poor communities in Asia and Africa.

The organization is now one of the fastest growing, most effective, and award-winning non-profits of the last decade. John has been recognized in the worldwide media as a “21st century Andrew Carnegie,” building a public library infrastructure to help the developing world break the cycle of poverty through the lifelong gift of education.

Volunteer works in Thulibesi, Bahundada

1.Teach in a school
2.computer training program
3.Library management program
4.Social awareness programs like as HIv/AIDS, womens rights, childrens righs etc
5. Work with mothers community
6. sports training for youth club
7.Health camps/dental camps etc
8. family planning awareness and distribution camps

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