Women’s Center Momo Workshop

The momo workshop was an amazing day at Volunteer Society Nepal’s women’s center. The women taught thirteen volunteers to make momo. The workshop works to raise money for the women’s center. It also teaches the volunteers how to make traditional Nepali food. Most importantly, the workshop gave the Nepali women a chance to practice their conversational and directional English.

The volunteers began by chopping vegetables and the women helped them to cut and dice. We blended garlic with vegetables, salt and oil. The momo dough consisted of just flour and water, but tying the dough around the filling proved to be the most difficult part for the volunteers! The women went around to the volunteers and showed them how to pinch the dough around the vegetable and chicken filling. Every momo looked different based off of the person who had made them. The women’s momos looked professional!

The momos were steamed for half an hour, and then everyone sat down to have a delicious Nepali meal. It was a great opportunity for the volunteers who don’t teach at the women’s center to meet the women. Now they can bring this useful recipe back home to different countries across the world!

Money that was raised from the momo workshop will go towards buying more cooking supplies for another workshop that we hope will be even more successful! There will be more workshops in the coming weeks that will raise more money for the women center. The money will go towards new English books for the women so they can improve their learning. We also want to build a kitchen in the women’s center. Overall, the workshop was a success and there will definitely be more to come!

Join us at the Women’s Center!

Our Volunteer Program aims to assist the sustainable development of Nepali communities through projects aimed at children, youth and women. The mission of our women’s center is to bridge the education gap by teaching English, math and Nepali.

We place our volunteers in schools, orphanages and centers throughout Nepal.  According to your skills and length of stay, we will create a program that suits you. We engage our volunteers in the ongoing development of Nepal and we encourage our volunteers to understand the Nepali people, their language and culture. All of our volunteers receive an on-arrival orientation that includes Nepali lessons, a presentation of the culture and work practices to expect and prepare for, and an introduction to their homestay and workplace.

To read more volunteer experiences at the women’s center, click here.