Objectives

Social Science Volunteers

Rosie Crawley heard of the Mountain Trust via one of our Trustees, Andrew Ahmad-Cooke who teaches with her Mum. Part of Rosie's Social Anthropology Degree at Brunel University required her to work on a placement. She and the Trust soon converged and it was not long before she was on a flight to Kathmandu with a brief to carry out some vital and far reaching research.

Click here to read her report.

Nick Beall was reading Politics at Southampton University when he attended a lecture given on Nepal at the Cambridge International Development Course in May 2008. Within a few weeks, he was in Pokhara designing and carrying out a pilot survey to explore the impact and recognition rates of listeners / potential listeners of the Mountain Trust educational radio broadcasts.

With the support of Cambridge's Humanitarian Centre, Dr Simon Learmount (Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge) and several MBA students at Cambridge's Judge Business School, we have developed the nub of a funding application to the DfID for around £300,000 to run a national trial of radio education in Nepal for 3 years - which will be the first of its kind according to Alan Court, Director of Programmes at Unicef.

Following one of our talks to Bullers Wood Sixth Form College, London (who have raised £1500 for the Trust to date) we have been very fortunate to recruit some Bullers students to translate the content of this website into several other languages - including French, Spanish, Bulgarian and Macedonian. We believe that wherever possible, we should offer our message to people in their mother tongues rather than constrict our communications to the English speaking world only.

We welcome enquiries from anyone interested in volunteering for the Mountain Trust in the UK, elsewhere or in Nepal - and our philosophy is not simply to publish vacancies - since everyone has something to offer - from teaching basic English or hygiene or plumbing or more academic subjects - to simply putting in good ideas, collecting research data or whatever. It is not so much a case of what can you do as what can you not do. Just contact us if you would like some further ideas, advice or are interested in becoming a Volunteer or Intern for the Mountain Trust.