📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Local Partner NGOe "s
💼 What the programme involves
Healthcare and the lack of easy access to it prevent people from upward social and economic mobility in India. Healthcare facilities in India are difficult to access. Government hospitals, though technically free, are so overwhelmed by the incongruity between the massive population of patients and the deficiency of qualified medical staff that they cannot cope with the load. Such health care facilities have a perpetual shortage of essential medicines and are unable to perform essential diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. On the other hand, rates of children under-nutrition in India remain high despite economic growth. Under-nutrition is responsible for 35% of deaths among children under 5 and 11% of the total global disease burden. It also reduces schooling attainment, an improvement in height for age and substantially increases the likelihood of being poorer later in life since less schooling is a predictor of lower wage and lower lifetime incomes. According to the World Health Organization, a majority of the top 10 causes of death in India are both treatable and preventable. Therefore, to supplement the effort of the Government many organisations are working in India to provide health care to people and improve the nutritional status of the children.
As a volunteer you will have to work with healthcare centres or community based organisations that are catering to the healthcare and nutritional needs of the rural community. Organising health camps; providing health and nutritional education to children, youth/adolescent and community; conducting community awareness; facilitate training and capacity building for the health workers, community mobilisers on preventive, curative and rehabilitative health intervention; conduct surveys; documentations; designing appropriate IEC (Information, Education and Communication) materials on health and nutritional aspect will be your assignments as a volunteer. The Info-sheet will have more information regarding the individual projects with schedules, and activities.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You could be staying with local families near to the project. You could be sharing rooms with 2-3 volunteers or staying on your own. Sometimes, projects provide accommodation for the volunteers. The project will provide a room that is shared by other volunteers or with the staff of the project.
📍 About the location
Our projects are spread out across different regions in South India. Your project location could be in any one of the following locations - Bangalore, Mysore, Chennai, Kundapur, Udupi, Mangalore, North Karnataka or Pondicherry. You will be notified of the location of your project a month prior to your arrival. During the Orientation week, one can find out the leisure activities around your area. There are lots of things to do in south of India.
ℹ️ Additional information
Project starts on the first Monday of each month. NOTE : Limited projects are available, and most require a minimum application of four months.