Our Experience with hands for help was like no other, it was truly amazing. We got to do things you would never normally be given the opportunity to do. Tiffany Sayers and I are 18 year old Australian girls who have just finished doing year 12 and have taken a gap year. To start we thought it would be a good idea to emerge ourselves in the culture in the form of some volunteer work. This is were "Hands for Help" came in. They were so good and organised everything, from language and culture courses to taking us to our rural placements and settling us in.

Firstly we spent 3 weeks working in the Himalayan Children's home in Pokhara which was fun. The little kids were gorgeous and just so happy to have us there. We would play with them, walk them to school eat with them, help bath them and put them to bed at night. We also tried to help in other ways by creating a brochure for the home as this would in the long run be hugely beneficial. After this we then decided to go deep into the mountains, 7 hours out of Pokhara to a little town called Puma, for our last week. Now that was incredible, seriously the experience of a lifetime. We were only there for a week but we will remember it forever. We lived in a little mud brick hut above these buffaloes with virtually no electricity and this amazing view of the Himalayas.

We lived with 3 ladies of whom looked after us so well and fed us all the time with the local dal bhatt. During the day we would teach the little children english at the local school and have the afternoons off, exploring the next towns, chatting to locals, drinking tea. It was really really out of this world. They are all so nice and loved having volunteers there. They told us they would be so happy if we could stay a year. We could have never done this without the help of hands for help.
Thank you very much

Lilli Morgan