There is no better place to visit than Her Farm Nepal. This is a 100% woman owned and operated organic farm in Nepal. Help women who come from domestic abuse or mental health issues succeed as farmers in Nepal. You can make a real difference in the lives of these women in Nepal and help them heal.
We've tried to make this easy for you and provided a way that you can book online, much the same way you'd make a hotel reservation or book a flight. Thank you for choosiing us to host you in Nepal.
PRICING - the price includes total, twenty-four hour a day support from our staff, a clean room in a modern house in a secure location, breakfast and dinner daily, wi-fi, bedding, towels and unlimited friendliness.
It couldn't be easier. Pick your dates, choose your program (which you can also change later) and click on "book now." 30 days prior to your start date you'll be sent an invoice to pay. There is no payment required to reserve a place unless you are booking less than one week before your start that. In that case, payment in full is required.
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Take action. Change your life as you improve the lives of others. Here's where you volunteer to go to Nepal and build, teach or heal.
OUR CAUSES With the help of local Nepali people and foreign volunteers and supporters, we create vibrant Himalayan mountain communities with access to healthcare, education and economic opportunities.
There is no better place to visit than Her Farm Nepal. This is a 100% woman owned and operated organic farm in Nepal. Help women who come from domestic abuse or mental health issues succeed as farmers in Nepal. You can make a real difference in the lives of these women in Nepal and help them heal.
Professor Bal Krishna recently spent time as a volunteer teaching women at Her Farm, and the village, about acupuncture and other techniques for use in th
Published on Jun 23, 2016 VISIT HER FARM NEPAL DOT ORG TO LEARN MORE
The women of Her Farm Nepal take you on a tour of daily life in the village and at the farm. Her Farm is located in rural Nepal in a farming village. More than 20 women and children live at Her Farm. This is a 100% women owned and operated organic farm. Her Farm is a healthy, vibrant mountain community where women and children have access to healthcare, education and economic opportunity in an environment where human rights are valued and respected. Her Farm is growing hope for women in the Himalayas.
Lensational reached Nepal through partnering with Mountain Fund, a non-profit organisation founded to protect Nepali women and give them the skills and safety to provide for themselves. The Mountain Fund’s Her Farm programme, one of the country’s own women-owned farm, provides a community for women who were formerly abused and abandoned in rural Nepal, allowing them to care for themselves and control their destinies.
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Photography from women living at Her Farm in Nepal.
"We have 27 women and children living here, and the 11 adult women (on the farm) mostly come from histories of domestic abuse," Maclennan says. "This is a prestige project for them. They can gain a lot of credibility and respect from the community, which isn’t easy for women to do in a highly patriarchal country."
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This podcasting program is just one of many empowerment activities happening at Her Farm.
Her Farm is an organic farm that is operated for, and by women. Life in Nepal isn't easy for women; domestic abuse is high, girls are discouraged from getting educated and often married off by families at an early age. Her Farm is a refuge from all that and the only model of its kind in the country. Women of all ages, and a wide variety of backgrounds live and work at the farm and are showing what women are capable of.
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See the reviews from volunteers who have worked at Her Farm.
People are always welcome to donate, but the majority of our funding at Her Farm comes from volunteers that we host at the farm.
About 150 people a year from 26 countries (and counting), visit the farm to help in the fields, the classrooms, with repairs and in other capacities.
This provides many women with the job at the farm - cooking, hospitality management, logistics; and of course it gives them the opportunity to practice English, the business language of Nepal, which many women have been excluded from learning.
Her Farm quickly became much more than a safe-haven from abuse. Young and unmarried women sought employment there to stave off parental pressure for marriage. Today there are women from wide variety of backgrounds as well as castes. They live together, work together and support each other’s success and wellbeing, like a giant family of 25 women.
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There are many ways you can help Her Farm thrive. Volunteers are needed to teach, heal, build and grow. You can go to Nepal and make a difference.
Scott MacLennan: "When we started Her Farm we had a vision of women coming from abusive family situations and living at the farm where they could support themselves and their children. That's still our mission and vision at the farm, however something else is taking place at the farm, something unexpected and wonderful."
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How do you grow hope on an organic farm? Go to Her Farm in the Himalayas to find out.
A taster of our visit to Her Farm Films. Scott MacLennan explains his plans to raise women's status through media training, empowering them to tell women's stories and change the traditional male-dominated narrative in Nepal, just like Belmaya Nepali is doing - as documented in the forthcoming feature doc, I Am Belmaya. Belmaya tried out the state-of-the-art cameras and was interviewed for community radio by Sushila Aryal.
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Her Farm Films: View the stories of women, by women in Nepal.
So many children now come each day to learn English and computers that we added another classroom. Many of the children walk an hour or more to reach our school.
Sunita Sharma and Scott MacLennan speak with Valerie about “Her Farm,” a woman-owned and run organic farm in Nepal, two hours outside of Kathmandu. Scott and Sunita initiated the project several years ago. Around thirty women jointly own the farm and live there with their children, growing their own food and receiving education. The farm also welcomes volunteers to come and spend time working on the farm and also to be involved in education projects. The evolving mission of the farm is to also give the members of its family the opportunity to learn 21st-century computer skills and experience with photography, video, and even radio and podcasting. Their website is at herfarmnepal.org
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Radio interviw with Scott and Sunita about Her Farm in Nepal.
Everyday life at the farm includes volunteers teaching children and we now serve lunch to the entire local school each day with as many as 60 children coming. We were serving breakfast before but the numbers were smaller as many had chores to help with at home before school. Since there’s no lunch at the school, and we knew that many children came with no packed lunch, we switched to lunchtime to make certain all the children get at least one good meal a day.
The best volunteers are Being, not Doing. Not long ago a volunteer posted on a blog about a conversation with the local school principal. In that conversation she asked what the principal thought about volunteers at the school. He replied that he was not sure since he'd never been outside of Nepal and couldn't know what changes would look like, what our life looked like. It's an important point.
We go to volunteer thinking we want to DO something. The people we wish to help may have no idea what we are talking about or thinking about, they have no frame of reference for understanding. It first takes building friendship and trust and that comes from Being, not from Doing.
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The time spent playing with kids, learning the language so they could say a few things to the locals, working hard and with the same tools as the locals. These ways of being ingratiated them to the community and strong bonds were made. From those bonds, doing becomes possible because there is trust. Without first Being, there is no Doing.
So when you come to Nepal and volunteer, be most mindful of who you are being, then you think about what you are doing.
The most touching moment I can think of, that demonstrates our impact, involves an 82 year old grandmother from the Brahmin caste (high caste). During the aftermath of the quakes, many families came together at Her Farm to create a communal kitchen. This meant families from all castes.
One day a woman voiced her discontent at eating food from a kitchen where low caste women were working, as some of our girls are Dalit (untouchable caste).
Grandma looked at the woman, and said:
“What does that matter now, we suffer together, and we’ll eat together.”
Or words to that effect. A huge breakthrough moment that an 82 year old high caste woman would think, must less utter those words out loud. She’s our immediate neighbour, she’s been around Her Farm a lot, and it has changed her thinking, or at least softened her position on some things.
This was made by the women of Her Farm and shows what a typical day is like for them.
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The empowered women at Her Farm in Nepal are taught video skills by volunteers working with The Mountain Fund and Mountain Volunteer. You can make a difference in Nepal. Volunteer.
Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do, than the things you did. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
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Stelly's Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada is instrumental in building and continued support for Her Farm in Nepal. This inspriational film helps us see and feel the transformative experience of volunteering in Nepal.
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