Center for Community Development and Research
Travel to Nepal with us to make a difference in your life and theirs.
Over the last decade, CCODER has organized a number of Tours and Treks to support different program and projects enabling many people of diverse ages and backgrounds to participate in local community experiencing different cultures, forming friendships, and sharing experiences and wealth promoting peace and creating a sense of a global family.
Tihar means ‘rows of light’. This is the colorful five-day festival of light during the glorious harvest moon season in Nepal. First day: Day of the ill-omen-ed crow Second day: Day of the Lowly dog, sent as a messenger by the God of Death to Earth Third day: Worship of Goddess Laxmi, symbol of wealth and the sacred cow Forth day: Worship of oxen, symbol of power and one’s body Fifth day: Brother-Sister blessing…
” A lamp does not flicker in a place where no winds blow; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the Spirit within him. When the restlessness of the mind, intellect and self is stilled through the practice of Yoga, the yogi by the grace of the Spirit within himself finds fulfillment” (Bhagavad Gita) Come experience Yoga with the masters- where yoga is a practical aid,…
“Children know how to deal with the impossible as if it were the possible” Goethe Education is an important role in creating a successful development strategy. CCODER recognizes this, and provides a Development Education course to members of communities in order to empower and mobilize its citizenry. But all too often, children in remote villages are forgotten and left without being able to recognize the opportunities around them. This is why CCODER supports its Community…
In CCODER’s promotion of Community Tourism they have set up a second trek called the “Botanic-Trek” where you can explore the upper Gorkha region of Nepal where many holistic herbs and medicines are grown. A well-known Nepali practitioner will lead you through a practice of traditional healing, or Lama, educate you in the way of the herbs their uses and walk you through the Gorkha Ayurvedic Company, set up to support the sustainable farmers in…
CCODER has hosted six successful Mobile Health Clinics around Nepal. On a Mobile Health Clinic, you will be supporting local Community Tourism treks and be able to experience the “real” Nepal from meeting rural residents and sharing your knowledge and experiences with them, to learning from experiences practitioners in holistic medicine in Nepal. Those who participate in the Mobile Health trek are challenged during their consultations with patients, get deep insights into modes of operation…