India- Program

1. Working with the orphanage

Though India has been surpassing its development goals, poverty still remains a serious problem, mostly affecting the kids in the rural areas / poor families / disadvantaged sections. Luckily, efforts have been made by different social organizations to protect these children, by providing them safe and secure home environment, food, clothing and most importantly education.  As a volunteer, you will share your time, energy and skills to support these Children and show them the path for a better tomorrow. 
Volunteer’s Activities

• Teaching English to the children making small groups
• Helping in cleanliness
• Teaching sanitations
• Helping in food distribution
• Playing with them and caring children.
• Teaching drawing or paintings
• Teaching rhymes and songs
• Helping in homework
• Helping in crating
• Other helps on administration or according to your skills, you can use your innovative ideas.

Note: Most of the orphanages in India have 30 to 50 children aged of 4 to 16.

Project Skills Required

• We just need motivation and commitment to help but no specific qualification or skills
• Should have interest and love for the children
• Should be open minded

2. Teaching English

These are children who are socially and economically backward, disadvantaged, abandoned, destitute, physically challenged, and normal children at ordinary schools, special schools, residential schools and rehabilitation centers.  In India, English is still required for better job opportunities. This is why volunteers are required to this field.

Volunteer’s Activities

• Teaching English to the children
• Playing with them and caring children.
• Teaching drawing or paintings
• Teaching rhymes and songs

Note: Most of the schools in India have 15 to 25 children in a class.

Project Skills Required

• We just need motivation and commitment to help but no specific qualification or skills
• Should have interest and love for the children
• Should be open minded

3. Women Empowerment

Women development project aims to empower rural women and women in distress and through them the entire family, so that they are healthy, economically above the poverty line, and able to analyze their own situation, and use their knowledge to make changes when necessary.

Volunteer’s Activities

• Teaching English to the children and women
• Teaching sanitations and awareness activities
• Teaching drawing or paintings
• Helping in stitching, and other administrative activities
• Helping in crating

Project Skills Required

• We just need motivation and commitment to help but no specific qualification or skills
• Should have interest and love for the girls and women.
• Should be open minded

4. Health Project

Many volunteers before starting their medical education or while studying, they want to come here and practice under doctors’ supervision. We provide you the opportunity for those volunteers. On the other many rural areas lag hospitals and doctors, our volunteers go to these areas with a team of doctors and do health check up and distribute medicines on the spot.

Volunteer’s Activities

• Helping doctors and nurse
• Helping patients
• Distribution of medicines
• Checking up patients, blood pressure, etc
• Learning about the different diseases

Project Skills Required

• We just need motivation and commitment to help and should be medical students for hospitals
• Should have interest mobile camps

5. HIV AIDS project

 HIV/Aids is one of the major problems in India. Lacks of awareness, many people are being suffered in India. Many people like drivers, prostitution working have no idea about contagion. People suffering from it are often neglected from the society. We work in HIV/Aids clinics and shelters in India. We basically work for awareness, and caring of the victims.

Volunteer’s Activities

• Helping doctors and nurse
• Awareness of contraceptives
• Distribution of medicines, teaching how to use condoms to be safe.
• Taking care of HIV/Aids Victim Children
• Teaching HIV/Aids children; English and homework.
• Counseling prostitution and drivers to do HIV/Aids test, etc.

Project Skills Required

• We just need motivation and commitment to help and should be medical students for hospitals
• Should have interest mobile camps

6. Internship in India

Volunteering Activity organizes an internship program especially for international students in areas such as orphanages, teaching in schools, organic farming, working with the special children and working at hospitals and HIV/Aids, Journalism, Etc.
Under the internship program, the intern is engaged in the day to day activities and exposed to departments of the unit. The interns are assigned a certain task by the project in-charge and the intern has to make and produce a report, for which they will be certified by the organization. The intern will also have a choice to choose a particular area of interest by working closely with project's person in-charge /staff.
Generally, a professional / staff of this project would serves as a supervisor/person in-charge for the intern. As an intern, you will stay with a host family or at hostel - near the project/institution. The director / person in-charge of the project will assist you successfully complete your report.  

Volunteer’s Activities
Note: according to the field you choose.

Project Skills Required

• We just need motivation and commitment
• Should be open minded

Extra Placements: We have placement available for Blind Project, Handicapped, and Old Age Home too.

What does program fee cover?

• Airport pick up
• Transfer to hostel or host family
• Accommodations and food (3 meals a day with a local family)
• Transport to project (one way)
• Support from local staffs  
• Project donations
• Regular visit (1-2 week interval)
• Supervision of local staffs

What program fee does not cover?

• Airfare, Visa and Visa extension fee
• Return/transfer to airport, airport taxes, local transportation
• Any personal expenses
• Entry fee
• Mineral water and soft drinks
• Gifts to project staffs and host family
• Laundry, Telephone, Immunization

Program Start Dates
Any time all the year round.

 

Cost Details:-

India

1week 2 weeks 3 weeks 4 weeks Each Extra Week $500 $550 $650 $750 $100

 

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