Volunteering Options

Education related

Assisting local teachers in rural schools has been one of the most successful interventions by our volunteers and the most popular activity. Volunteers participate in educational enhancement for students of class 1 till class 5 specifically in the areas of English, Math and enhancing creativity.

The volunteer activities in the field include:

• Regularly teaching children English and Mathematics in the schools.
• Creating a playful environment and enhance the creativity of the children through painting, playing games, singing etc.
• Working with local teachers in creating low cost teaching material and to train them in making education more fun for the children.
• Each volunteer to take responsibility for everyday attendance of a few children to the school, aimed at improving overall interest in the school and reduce drop-out rate.
• Ensuring regular health check ups of the children in each school through cooperating with the local doctors and hospital staff.
• Creating basic hygiene awareness amongst children on a regular basis.

Child Care related

In addition to our attention to schools, early childhood care and education is an area of critical need in rural areas:

Drawing upon our experience we have also taken up the responsibility of maintenance and care of local child care centers. Also called "Anganwari", these centers carry out holistic child care in the area. In line with the expected activities of such institutions, the volunteer activities include :

• Ensuring maximum attendance by the children of the area to these centers through awareness building in the community.
• Personal attention and care to the children coming to the center everyday.
• Assistance to the local worker for record maintenance for each child based on health, vaccination, growth and nutritional condition.
• Making and feeding the children a specially prepared nutritious meal everyday with the help of a local worker.
• Continuous survey of all pregnant women and new born babies in the area for regular health check ups and vaccination.
• Creating a colorful and enjoyable environment for the children with games, stories and other creative activities(all material support and training for such activities is provided)
• Developing the motor skills of the little children by making them use their body parts in various games etc