TakingITGlobal: Inspire, Inform, Involve

Our Vision, Mission and Values:rnThe guiding values and principles provide the moral and strategic basis for all the work of HELP/Nepal.rnrnOur Calling:rnWe are called to serve, to be of service to any or all in need of physical, moral and material health and healing. Our work calls us to restore...
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Our Vision, Mission and Values:rnThe guiding values and principles provide the moral and strategic basis for all the work of HELP/Nepal.rnrnOur Calling:rnWe are called to serve, to be of service to any or all in need of physical, moral and material health and healing. Our work calls us to restore people to wholeness attending to the physical, emotional, psychological, social, economic, and spiritual aspects of their lives. We are called to honour the right of all people to be treated with respect, dignity, and compassion. We are called to community, to work interdependently with those who share a commitment to human health and well-being. We are called to be servants.rnrnOur Commitment:rnWe will live our mission with integrity in all that we do as caregivers, co-workers, and the HELP/Nepal community. We will act as a unified family, celebrating the strengths and contributions of each member. We will be seekers, restless in our determination to respond to needs and opportunities, relentless in our search for understanding, and driven to create and share knowledge. We will be a dynamic community, embracing change with hope, courage, creativity, and a commitment to service. We will be a place where people find fulfillment, engaging spirits, nurturing souls and empowering the vocations of each member.rnrnEthics at Work:rnEthical reflection will always be a cornerstone of who we are and what we do. Each day members of the HELP/Nepal community make important personal and organizational decisions. For us, ethics is a way of life that examines who we ought to be, and what we ought to do in light of who we say we are. We seek to bring the best of our wisdom and lived experience to ethical issues.rnTo give relief in times of emergency and sickness, to protect in peril, to offer a fish to face today's needs and, mainly, to provide a fishing net, so empowering the capability of a free and decent life for any human being in need: these are the practical reflexes of our ethics.rnrnGuiding Values: rnDignity of the human personrnThe dignity of the human person is our foundational moral value. We reject the reification of the poor and seek to make them not objects of our pity but subjects of their own development and agents of change. rnOptions for the poor and the unprivileged:rnWe commit ourselves to combating dehumanizing poverty, which robs people of their dignity and humanity, and to promoting the rights of the poor. We commit ourselves to restoring their sense of co-responsibility in building a better world. We also need to underline the position of women, recognising that they have to be given their rightful place in society and in our structures. Ultimately, we believe that the children are the real stakeholders of the Earth, and we must aim to deliver them a better world and a better life.rnUniversal destination of the Earth's goods:rnAny economic, social, political or cultural structure which opposes or oppresses and prevents change towards justice is errant and immoral. We seek to encourage our membership to redress the balance by working to transform these structures into graced social structures which favour the poor and the unprivileged. rnrnSolidarity:rnWe seek to inculcate in our membership, and our dealings with other non-governmental organisations and global institutions, a genuine sense of solidarity, not a feeling of sympathy but of empathy, of putting oneself in the shoes of the poor and seeing the world from their perspective. rnrnStewardship:rnWe commit ourselves to being in solidarity not only with people but with the whole of creation and therefore seek to act in an environmentally sustainable way at all times. rnrnOur Principles: rnFrom grassroots to global:rnWe listen to the voice of the silent, poor, and unprivileged, speak on their behalf, when that is necessary, and, above all, enable them to speak for themselves. rnrnSubsidiarity:rnThe principle of subsidiarity is one of the foundations of HELP/Nepal. We will respect the principle of local autonomy for all activities at the local level while, at the same time, helping them to work together effectively and harmoniously in the pursuit of our common mission. rnrnLearning:rnWe will be placing much greater emphasis on becoming a learning organisation in terms of sharing experiences and ideas and on transforming this learning into more effective action. rnrnDevelopment:rnWe see our relief and emergency work in the context of integral human development concerns. This forms part of the promotion of the dignity of the human person. In the coordination of relief and emergency programmes we seek increasingly to integrate relief, development, reconciliation, peace-building, and human rights activities. rnrnPartnership:rnHELP/Nepal seeks to work on the basis of partnership, which should underline all relations. Partnership implies a long-term commitment to agreed objectives, based on shared values, strategies and information. rnrnCooperation:rnHELP/Nepal is committed to developing close working relations with any organisation which shares our vision. rnrnStewardship of resources:rnWe will steward those resources entrusted to us in an efficient and effective manner, being aware that we have an obligation to behave at all times in a transparent and accountable way - to the poor and to one another. rnrnStrengthening capacity:rnWe recognize that we must strengthen the capacity of our organisations to deliver effective programs and services to, or on behalf of, the unprivileged, poor and weak people of Nepal. We must strengthen our management and leadership at all levels. We must use new technologies in such a way that they are at the service of humanity. rnrnWitnessing:rnWe witness our vision not only in our words but in our deeds, the way we act in the world. This witnessing to the wider world implies openness, transparency, and visibility. We will ensure that the way we communicate within and outside the organization will conform to our guiding values and principles.
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Our main current projects:rnrnEducation:rnrn“Hamro Schools” - Our Schools - is a pilot program of 10 rural primary schools, on the basis of a totally free education, aimed at creating excellent reference centres in different areas of the country. The financing process is running through the...
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Our main current projects:rnrnEducation:rnrn“Hamro Schools” - Our Schools - is a pilot program of 10 rural primary schools, on the basis of a totally free education, aimed at creating excellent reference centres in different areas of the country. The financing process is running through the Cooperation and Development Department of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.rnrn“Sangai” is a programme for the creation of a multifunctional campus that will act as a ubi consistam for the operations of many partner NGOs. In this way, we will be able to reduce the fixed costs now born by each of these NGOs. We will also be able to give value and harmony to the educational programs of the NGOs, taking advantage of their mutual interaction. rnRecovery:rnrn“Hamro Ghar” - Our Home - is a program aiming to improve and enlarge an existing centre to rehabilitate up to 150 children who have been affected by the war and are displaced or “street children” and to provide them protection and basic rights and education. The program is to be run in a historical building handed over to HELP-Nepal for 20 years to restore it and manage it. rnrn“Asha ko Biu” is a programme aimed at helping street children through the daily support towards problems related to education, health and feeding. With our pilot project “Asha ko Biu Pashupati” we are helping through sport activities, the street children of the famous Hindu Pashupati Temple.rnrnTraining:rnrn“Shalom Nepal” is a program aimed at improving the professional skills of Nepali caregivers working in Israel. Through a professional and linguistic training, the program wants to establish a promising partnership with Israeli NGOs that will provide Nepali women serving in Israel with legal and paralegal aid, especially concerning their work.rnrnHealth:rnrn“Kanti Children Hospital Support Program” aims to promote an exchange of Medical and Paramedical staff with European Paediatric Hospitals, to provide new equipment and machinery to the wards and to optimize the maintenance of the existing equipment. The constitution of an appropriate Nepali Foundation is under process. Talks concerning the intervention planning are in due course with several International Institutions, as Gaslini Foundation and Meyer Children Hospital.rnrn“Teaching Hospital - Paediatric Ward” is a program managed in cooperation with the Institute of Medicine of the Tribhuvan University. The object is to internationally support the creation of a strongly needed University Paediatric Ward in Kathmandu. rnrn“NEPAS - Nepal Paediatric Association” NEPAS is the Nepali Paediatric Association that we represent and with whom we have established several cooperation programmes aimed at exchanging medical and paramedical staff, at providing regenerated equipment, and at assisting the Hospital in the maintenances of the appliances.rnStaff exchange will be done with major international hospitals, starting with Italy, and will not only bring improvements in knowledge, but also a promising cycle with other hospitals. The supply of regenerated technical equipment, coming from highly developed countries where they have been dismissed, will represent in most cases the difference between life and death for so many Nepali.rnTechnical assistance in the maintenance of the equipments will then help to avoid the chronic abandonment of many appliances due to a serious lack of expertise in their management.rnrnIncome Generation:rnrn“Hamro Pul” - Our Bridge rnis a program to promote the export of high quality Nepali products, manufactured by companies working on a fair trade basis. The benefit pertaining to HELP/Nepal will be fully used to implement our projects. rnrn“Cheese & Smile!”rnis a program to build, launch and manage village sized cheese factories. Tests of production are under process and the implementation of the pilot centre will start during 2006.rnrn“Himalayan Ham” rnis a project to build and manage a stock farm for domestic and wild boars, a slaughterhouse, a dressed pork factory, and a training centre to diffuse the knowledge and the culture of the internationally celebrated production of European (and mainly Italian) style “salami” and ham.rnrn“WOW” rnWorms Obliterates Wastes is an income generation program that through vermicast productions wants to increase the amount of organic fertilizers in the fields in substitution to urea, whose acidity dramatically endangers the fertility of the soil.
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Call for INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERSrnrnDuty StationrnKathmandu – Nepal - with transfers to villages if required.rnrnDuration of the assignmentrnStart date: depending on the candidate’s preference, in any case not earlier than September 2007. Minimum duration of the program: two months. Maximum...
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Call for INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEERSrnrnDuty StationrnKathmandu – Nepal - with transfers to villages if required.rnrnDuration of the assignmentrnStart date: depending on the candidate’s preference, in any case not earlier than September 2007. Minimum duration of the program: two months. Maximum duration: five months.rnrnDeadlinern1st September 2007rnrnBackgroundrnHELP/Nepal is a Nepalese NGO that for years has been committed to projects concerning poverty reduction, income generation, primary education, street children relief, basic medical control and, broadly speaking, protection to those in need in Nepal. Now with head office in Kathmandu, HELP/Nepal (Human Environmental League for Preservation) was originally founded in 1995 in the Banke district, in the south-western part of the country, by volunteers and former volunteers of United Nations in Nepal. We now cooperate with different local and international agencies for development, as well as with many non-governmental local organizations to reach our common goals. rnHELP/Nepal works at the frontline, in order to fill the gap between the communities and to reduce poverty. In addition to the collaboration with other local NGOs, HELP/Nepal manages several own projects. Currently, these are focused on education (school building, scholarships grants and help to local community), street children relief (immediate help and subsequent recovery), income generation (through the commercialization in the international market of food products and local manufactured goods of high quality) and assistance to other NGOs in the preparation of project plans, sponsorship requests and more.rnThrough our International Volunteers program we aim to create a powerful network of young qualified people that will cooperate with us in the many activities we carry out, thus growing from a professional and human point of view, thanks to the tasks accomplished in the field.rnFor more details, please visit: www.helpnepal.org.rnrnDescription of duties:rnSelected candidates will be involved in one or more of the following activities:rnProject formulation and evaluation, also occasional field-trip visits for assessments and research.rnManagement of international contacts with NGOs, Associations and Italian enterprises, in the framework of the fund raising activities carried out by our NGO. rnProject Management and Impact AssessmentrnParticipation in our “Hamro Pul” project (our bridge) aimed at creating a profitable market in Europe for the commercialization of Nepali products of high quality, both raw materials and manufactured. They will be certified by our organization as “fair-trade” products, assuring the sustainability of production cycles, respecting the environment and granting workers humane and fair conditions. rnrnSuccessful candidates shall demonstrate the following qualifications and experiences:rnAcademic and/or professional preparation rnExcellent interpersonal skillsrnCreativity and flexibilityrnGood command of the English languagernA previous experience in a developing country is an assetrnKnowledge of International institutions and their procedures, workers’ groups, university and enterprises is considered a strong asset.rnrnEconomic conditionsrnThe cost to participate to the program is € 345,00/month. It includes: transfer to/from Kathmandu airport, professional training during the assignment and breakfast and accommodation in a reputable hotel (available services: laundry, TV, minibar, private bathroom, internet, and restaurant).rnA great part of this contribution goes to our humanitarian projects.rnrnInterested candidates are invited to send their CV and motivation letter to the attention of:rnrnDr. Cesare Zavalloni, International Programmes Coordinator, cesare.zavalloni@HELPnepal.org
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