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Food and Accommodation - Africa and Asia Venture

Food and Accommodation

Photograph of typical AV accommodation with the Lepchas - Gap Year Projects & Volunteering Opportunities in IndiaLepcha House with your partner

An important part of the AV experience is living in local accommodation and the Lepcha experience goes a step further by placing you and another AV volunteer with a host family, so that you are both at the heart of the village. This is the best way of getting to know the people, being involved in the community and gaining an understanding of living there – you are not a bystander watching from afar. You will have your own space, living either in a separate part of the family home or in an annex close to your Lepcha family, who will feed and look after you both.  There is a long and honourable tradition of hospitality among the Lepchas who have always welcomed strangers with open arms. Prepare to drink lots of tea or ‘chi’, a fermented millet beer drunk from a bamboo mug through a bamboo ‘straw’!

Photograph of AV volunteers enjoying a meal - Gap Year Projects & Volunteering Opportunities in IndiaThere may or may not be electricity, or running water but you will have a ‘loo’ and private washing area outside of the main house. You will live with one other AV volunteer so you are not on your own and other AVs will be in villages nearby.

The AV representative is never far away and there whenever needed. They can be contacted by phone 24/7 and will visit you during your project.

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