Nepal Team

Bikram Paudel – Founder/Director

Bikram Paudel is the founder and the director of VCD Nepal. He established VCD Nepal in 2007.

Santosh Pokhrel – Program Coordinator and internship head

Santosh joined VCD Nepal at the beginning of 2008. He is responsible for arranging suitable placement for international interns and coordinate media related volunteers. Santosh also works as an editor […]

Pratikshaya Paudel – Community Library Coordinator

She joined VCD Nepal in December 2014 as a Community Library Coordinator. Pratikshya helps VCD Nepal to manage the community library center in Chitwan. She is very good at motivating […]

Shyam Silwal – Village Coordinator

He started working as a village coordinator with VCD Nepal in 2007. He takes care of VCD volunteers while they are in his village by taking them sight-seeing and showing them […]

Durga Giri – Pokhara Co-ordinator

Mr Giri is a VCD Nepal coordinator for Pokhara region. He is also working as a teacher in a local school.

Simran & Sabita

Simran (17 years old) & Sabita (15 years old) are contributing their weekend free time as a volunteer at VCD Nepal’s children resource center in Chitwan. They are international and […]

Nathanya Laurent – UK Coordinator

Email: nlaurent@clara.co.ukNathanya Laurent is lives in Leeds, UK. She volunteered at the local school in Nepal teaching English for 5 weeks in 2011 in her first visit. She volunteered again with VCD […]

Nicole Dobson – Australian Coordinator

Hi, my name is Nicole. I was in Nepal for short of a month in 2018 and my aim is to assist the development of the program and it’s connection […]

South American Co-ordinator

Maria Del Rosario Vasquez, ColumbiaMaria spent about 5 months in Nepal in 2014/2015 . She joined VCD for tourism and hospitality program. She also helped VCD to develop its new projects. […]

Gitte Hoehl, Denmark – Danish Coordinator

Email: gittehoehl@hotmail.comGitte has visited Nepal a total of 13 times with her first visit in 2008. She has spent more than one year in Nepal, working at the orphanage in Chitwan, at […]

Miriam Pylkko – Finnish Coordinator

Miriam Pylkko, FinlandEmail: miia-e@windowslive.comMiriam has spent a total of 8 months in Nepal.Her projects have included helping at a monastery, teaching at a school and she has helped with the establishment […]

Connie Lau – American Coordinator

Connie Lau, New York, USAConnie has been to Nepal four times. She loves Nepal. She volunteered at the VCD office and also taught at the Children resource center in Pokhara.

Ignacio Aylwin – Spanish Coordinator

Ignacio Aylwin – Spain/Chile Ignacio has is our overseas coordinator since 2019. He has visited Nepal twice and volunteered at the local school and at the monastery. He is originally […]

Teresa Yung – American Coordinator

Teresa worked with VCD Nepal in 2008. She taught English at the local school in Chitwan for 2 months.

Vibha Dhawan – Canadian Coordinator

Vibha Dhawan, Calgary, CanadaEmail: curious.lounge@gmail.comVibha volunteered with VCD in 2011. She taught at the school in Pokhara for 2 weeks.

Rebecca Wollborn – German Co-ordinator

Rebecca Wollborn, Hamburg, GermanyE-mail: rebeccawollborn@web.deRebecca volunteered twice with VCD Nepal. In her first visit she volunteered at the monastery but in her second visit she did medical intern at one of […]

Alicia Warren – Japan & South Korea Coordinator

Alicia Warren, Japan/South KoreaEmail: lishajoy@gmail.comAlicia volunteered in an orphanage home in Chitwan for one month in 2008.

Middle East Co-ordinator

Shahad Alamoudi, Saudi ArabiaShahad is a medical student. She did few weeks of medical intenship along with her two friend at one of our medical palcement in Kathmandu.

Dutch Co-ordinator

Trix Van Hest, The NetherlandsEmail: trixvanhest@gmail.comTrix lives in Amsterdam. She volunteered with VCD in 2009 for a month.

Spanish Co-ordinator

Martha de Ramon, Barcelona, SpainEmail: martaderamon@hotmail.comMarta fue una voluntaria de Cataluña, estudiante de sociologia que pasó 3 meses en Nepal. Estuvo alrededor de un mes como voluntaria en un orfanato de […]