📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Local Partner Organisations
💼 What the programme involves
Working with persons/children with various forms of disability can be quite a challenging task for anyone. However, the spirit of these people can bring lot of joy and a lot can be learnt from this experience. The main work will be teaching and supporting the staff in their daily activities for the care of physically and/or mentally disabled children. As a volunteer, you will be involved in Individual goal setting and planning for holistic development of children/persons with disability through home-based, community based or institutional based approach. It needs a bit of flexibility and openness to all kinds of works and activities.
These children are discriminated and rejected by mainstream society and therefore volunteers are needed to participate and bring joy in their live of these children, and help the NGO to bring some structure changes in their daily lives and prepare them for adulthood. Additional work activities would involve maintenance and gardening work, preparing meals, serving them, cleaning and giving company.
A creative approach to work is useful and you will have the opportunity to initiate new mini projects or activities. You will need to take a flexible approach to the work with and you should be prepared to undertake multiple tasks. 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.