Volunteer & Trek

Where hearts and horizons meet

This is not a trek you just walk. It’s a path you share. Before your boots touch the high trails, your hands and heart touch the lives of people in Nepal.

A journey that changes not only the landscape around you – but the one within you.

MeroTrails invites you, together with Zuckerstein e.V. and the Aakar Foundation, to step into schools and community centers in the Kathmandu Valley and the Solukhumbu region. Here, children and young people (some with disabilities, all with dreams too big for their walls) invite you to join them:

Painting murals, guiding a creative workshop, helping with English conversation, or simply playing, listening, and sharing stories. What matters is not your skillset. It’s your willingness to be present. Quiet hills of lower Solukhumbu, begins a path that isn’t told through pixels and selfies, but through moments that make your heart beat faster and fill you with a deep sense of wonder.

Each participant brings something unique: a song, a game, a craft, a lesson. The children and young adults bring curiosity, laughter, and resilience.

Out of this exchange, real connections grow: moments that can’t be staged, only lived. And while you give, you receive: insights into Nepali life, into joy that rises above hardship, and into your own capacity to connect in ways deeper than words.

From there, the journey unfolds into the mountains. What you have shared in villages and classrooms becomes part of the rhythm of your steps. Carried into rhododendron forests, over ridges, and beneath endless skies. The trek is not a separate chapter, but a continuation: the silence of the Himalayas giving space for everything you’ve experienced to take root within you.

More than volunteering

It’s not about being a “helper.” It’s about being human, side by side. You may find yourself painting under prayer flags, playing football on a dusty field, or sharing tea with a young adult whose art speaks louder than language. Every encounter is a reminder that dignity and creativity know no borders.

The trek that follows

When the last goodbye has been whispered and the smiles linger in your heart, your journey continues into the Himalayas. One week of trekking through rhododendron forests, along quiet ridges, beneath skies brushed with watercolor dawns.

Every step carries what you’ve shared: the colors, the songs, the stories. Into landscapes that remind you: giving and receiving are never separate.

What not to expect:

• You won’t be a “voluntourist” snapping photos of staged charity.
• You won’t be given a script that ignores who you are.
• You won’t just trek, eat, sleep, repeat.

Instead, expect:

• Creative workshops and shared learning, with children and people with disabilities.
• Freedom to bring your own strengths – teaching, storytelling, music, art, or simply presence.
• Partnership with local changemakers, ensuring your contribution has lasting impact.
• A trek that balances giving and receiving, walking both through villages and among peaks.

Why This Is a MeroTrail – and Not a “Voluntourism Package„

MeroTrails stands for “my way, your trail, our story.”

Our journeys aren’t copy-pasted from the Lonely Planet. They’re handcrafted like a good cup of milk tea. Every step is curated. Every place chosen because it has something to tell. No mass dorms, no fast-trekking.

MeroTrails is not about “helping for a week.” It’s about co-creating stories that matter.

• Small groups. Deep impact. No mass programs: just you, our team, and authentic encounters.
• Inclusive approach. Children, adults, people with disabilities: all voices matter, all talents shine.
• Balanced rhythm. Serving, trekking, reflecting: each has its heartbeat.
• Homes, not hostels. From community stays to family-owned lodges: every place chosen with care and intention.

Who this trail is for

For those who believe travel is about people, not just places.
For those who want to give, and discover how much they’ll receive.
For those who want to meet not only the mountains, but also the dreams and strengths of the people who live among them.

If you’re searching for a trek that blends purpose with panorama, where service flows into silence under Himalayan skies, then this is your journey.

Volunteer & Trek whispers a truth:
The most powerful peaks are not always mountains. Sometimes, they are the people you meet along the way.