• A VSN staff member will pick you at the airport on arrival as well as take you to the airport at departure.
• VSN places volunteers in very safe places to stay and work.
• VSN staff can give great guidance and instruction about the local and national transportation and about the hiking trails around the working and urban area.
• Help with visa extensions.
• All the VSN staff have mobile phones, so getting in contact in an emergency is not difficult. You are always welcomed to get in contact with the VSN staff at any time on our cell phones during your entire stay
• Mobile phones are also common on the streets of Kathmandu.SIM cards and pre-paid cards are pretty affordable. So, bring your phone,VSN helps you to get a SIM card.
• Host families and long-term placements are chosen near health care facilities.

• If it is festival time (and it usually is), then you'll be to experience Nepali culture first-hand with the other volunteers and VSN support staff.
• Meeting with your host family and VSN staff before starting the volunteering work, allows volunteers can ask any questions. For example, the VSN staff can be a great resource for information about the Hindu caste system,Nepali education system, culture, survival guidance, gender issues, and recent political changes. If you are volunteering in a health program, then you can also get an initiation into the Nepal health practices,the history of the health institution and present health situation.
• Volunteering in Nepal with VSN will be an affordable experience (well except for the plane ticket!) with low-cost program fee and no hidden expenses.
  

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Sample Schedule and Accommodations:
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During Training:
Throughout the duration of orientation and training, volunteers stay with host families near to VSN office or at the VSN office, located approximately 10km southeast of Kathmandu.
Volunteers will be provided western and/or Nepali food three times a day. The VSN office has western toilet and hot shower and 24 hour internet access. During training you will have a single separate room for accommodation. Volunteers will be provided with three to five hours of training per day and the duration of training depending upon the volunteering period. Rest of the day, volunteers will visit different schools, VSN projects, orphanages and sight seeing. You will also meet other international volunteers and share the experience.

During placement:
Once necessary orientation and trainings are provided and volunteers feel comfortable, volunteers will move to Nepali family. At the placement volunteers live with a local family as a member of the family and has a separate room. All the families have already accommodated our previous volunteers and they have been provided training on how to accommodate overseas volunteers; families provide three meals a day (the day time meal will be a light snacks) and boiled water available for drinking. The typical Nepalese meal is 'daal bhaat tarkaari' (lentil soup, rice and vegetables) also other food like noodles, chapatti, omelettes and different kinds of seasonal fruits and vegetables are eaten. Volunteers will be eating the same food that the family eats. All the the placements have electricity and telephone facilities and most of placements have internet acess as well.