Programmes last from 4-6 months, including 4 to 6 weeks training. Volunteers begin their placement with a survey of the area and the community interviewing villagers, mapping the area, meeting key local people and groups and visiting the school. This allows volunteers to isolate problems in the community and identify the appropriate solutions for that area from what they have learnt. They will give demonstrations of different activities to various community groups, farmer co-operatives and women. For example, how to build a smokeless stove, what materials are needed and why people should adopt this new method of cooking.
Volunteers also raise awareness amongst the young people in the area.
This is achieved through the volunteers taking lessons at the school and in some cases setting up an Environmental Club, which young people can join. Environmental Programme in Nepal Our main task on placement is to set up and structure a Green Club in the village. It is a youth focused body that concentrates on raising environmental awareness in a developing community as well as offering a chance for the children to reach out from their strait jacket confines of the Government school system, taking control of their community and giving a constructive input. These stoves use considerably less firewood than traditional stoves, and allow women to cook three pots at a time, rather than one. And now, one villager has now increased his income, by building for other members of the village.