United Planet, a non-profit volunteer organization places volunteers all over the world for short or long term assignments. Because I'd never experienced volunteer service, I decided on one week, their shortest assignment. Since my needs will be taken care of by the United Planet organization (I will be staying with a host family while in Kathmandu), I will pay them a fee in addition to my payment responsibility for air fare. To help me finance this endeavor, I've set up a fundraising page with First Giving, a fundraising web site that manages donation for authorized non-profit organizations such as United Planet. If you would like to be a part of my sponsorship by making a donation, the site is http://www.firstgiving.com/jennywrenn --check it out.I'll be taking a flight out of LAX Los Angeles airport in March of 2010. The flight will take two days. Depending upon what flight I settle on, I'll change planes in either Bankok, or Dubai or somewhere else. Also the exchange rate reflects the poverty of this country. It takes 78 Nepal rupees to equal an American dollar. Thailand is better off. There it takes 34 Thailand bahts to equal one American dollar.
