Volunteering Options

Teaching:

The volunteers will be able to work in primary and secondary schools run by the government for underprivileged local children. Teaching and related activities may include :

• teaching English at various levels imparting English conversation skills creativity enhancing exercises with children like drawing, painting, music and dance.
• working with local teachers in creating low cost teaching material from locally available resources
• ensuring regular attendance of children through motivating their families by regular visits etc.
• promoting basic hygiene awareness amongst children.
• Creating a more "child-friendly" environment in the schools through decorating/painting the schools.

Child-care

We have experience in working with local day care centres for children that are being run by the government for monitoring and ensuring healthy growth of children. Called "Aanganwaris", these centers are intended to act as source of holistic child-care. The volunteer activities in the day care centers include :

• Personal attention and care to children coming to the centre everyday.
• Developing motor skills of the children by making them use body parts through playing games.
• Ensuring maximum attendance of children and pregnant women to the day-care centre through community awareness
• Creating a more attractive environment for the children through renovation of the center and adding facilities like toys etc.

People with special needs

An increasing variety of work is required and being setup for volunteers at institutions for people with special needs, which includes

• Schools for mentally challenged children
• Orphanages
• Old age homes

The activities in such institutions (decided as per their prescribed schedule) include everyday care, maintenance of facilities, teaching, awareness building and creative activities.

Special focus on adolescent girls and women

As the most important, yet much neglected part of Indian population, we consider working with adolescent girls and women for education and empowerment a very important factor for sustainable growth in its work areas. For this reason, we organize special periodic activities (of limited duration) throughout the year where volunteers would be able to work for development of various skills. Some of the activities may include

• -Imparting conversational English to working women for improving employability
• -Imparting sex education to adolescent girls in the very conservative Indian environment
• -Imparting sports training and physical fitness learning
• -Imparting knowledge of operating simple mechanical machinery like bicycles etc for confidence -building as such activities are often consider a domain of boys only)