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GIRLS EMPOWERMENT

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About the project

GIRLS EMPOWERMENT

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Do you like to help SMILE NGO to bring a smile to the most neglected children living on the street of kolkata ,India.This project is all about bringing smile to all underprivileged refugee grown up girls from the downtrodden families of kolkata.Providing informal basic education like english teaching ,hygiene,basic health care,family planning education,playing, organising entertainment program ,food distribution for these children of this downtrodden community would be the main target of the volunteers in this camp. SMILE Society ( Situational Management & Inter Learning Establishment Society) is a registered Non profit working for these underprivileged communities around the state of West Bengal since 2003 . On August 31, 2003, a team of family and friends leaded by Mr. Debabrata Chakraborty, voluntarily formed SMILE Society to fight against this injustice and bring a smile to these cute faces.Since then SMILE brought hundreds of children from the street to the normal society . SMILE mission is to provide volunteers with a customised program (workcamp, short term, long term) that will enable them to make an important contribution to these poor and needy kids from the street. Our foremost goal is to "Bring Smile around" We ensure that all volunteers are provided with a safe and enriching experience. Our flexible approach means that you will be given a placement to suit your needs and time scale. All international students are also welcome to take part in our Programme. Our unique placements could become the trip of a lifetime.

💼 What the programme involves

India having uncountable numbers of street and slum dwellers . There are thousands of poor refugees coming every year from nearby countries and from different small towns and villages to the big cities and most of these families are living in a very poorly condition at slums or on street corners like insects . Normal societies are so busy to deal with their personal daily problems ,so have little time for these unfortunate people. With every such family most number are children below 12 years including both girls and boys. Often these families bring their children to help them in begging ,household work ,rag picking activities. So it is really a shame of the so called civilised societies.Smile Society (ngo) had started their activities since 2003 ! From the first day children from the street around its' project area became the SMILE family members! Activities started with washing,cleaning,cleaning cloth,cutting hair and nails and then basic education( pre-elementary ) / vocational training/art /craft /drama /language training /music training /other activities done for the children on regular basis. Once these activities over then lunch being distributed among the children at the project followed by different amusing games with the volunteers !! volunteers can have a scope to creat game plan or vocational training activities for these angels. These projects are going the several places with the help of local community helper . We often welcome international workcamp volunteers and medium to long term volunteers to run these projects. and food accomodation .

🏠 Accommodation on site

Living cost : Euro 300/head for minimum 4 weeks and every extra week cost €50/head up to 20 weeks ,it includes 3 times local food, shared room at local host family,public transportation to and fro project and accommodation,airport transfer , drinking water ,wifi facilities 1 hours during weekdays , local coordinator support at every project,2 days through orientation , work shop training , Pre departure orientation , emergency support ,local language training also included. ( cost excluded :- Flight ticket, visa,medical cost if any personal cost ,weekends trip,special trip at the end of the camp ,gift,any special food / drinks ). Shared dorm based room,male and female at separate room, local 3 times cooked meal on self service basis.

📍 About the location

Kolkata( itself is a great tourist place with its historical value ) is well connected with many famous and attractive tourist places during weekends .... Ӭ *Darjeeling ( most famous hill station,Toy Train, Tea Garden in India ) *kalimpong ( famous Buddhist place and hill station) *kurshiang ( lash green tea garden) *Sikkim ( hill station with beautiful valley ) *puri ( the famous Hindu religious place and sea beach ) *Digha ( sea beach )*Bodh Gaya ( Famous Buddhist temple ) *varanashi ( famous Hindu temple and Ganges ) *shantiniketan ( one of the university established by great Nobel laureate Sri Rabindranath Tagor) *Bishnupur ( ancient Bengali history, tera cotta ( clay made item ) ,sari etc. Ӭ Any of these places can be covered during weekends by train by self organise !! Ӭ ********************* organised Package trip at the end of the camp can be organised by professionals...... Ӭ * Taj Mahal ,Jaipur,Delhi etc. trip can also organise for the interested groups against extra cost ( minimum 4 person) Ӭ * weekends exciting city ( kolkata ) and around trip can also be organised against extra cost.

ℹ️ Additional information

Euro 300 for minimum  4 weeks ,every extra weeks Euro 50/head/week.

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📅 Available sessions

SMILE MLTV04

01/01/2017 → 31/12/2017

Closed
Volunteers registered 15 / 15
♂ 10/3 ♀ 5/3

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

15–45 years old

Solidarity donation

300.00 EUR

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

India

🌍 Location info

Local currency

India Rupee (INR / ₹)

Exchange rate

1 INR = 0.009550 EUR

Rate as of 31/05/2026

✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Hindi