📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
CCIVS,NVDA,Alliance and all other IVS groups around the globe.
💼 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 !!
🏠 Accommodation on site
Living cost : Euro 200 /head ,it includes 3 times local food, shared room at local host family,car transportation to and fro project and ' accommodation,airport transfer , drinking water ,wifi facilities 2 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 in separate room), 3 times meal on self service basis.
📍 About the location
Madhyamgram,kolkata .Kolkata ,the city of joy was known before as Calcutta since the colonial time. This ancient city was used to be the capital of British colonial period. This city has full of heart ,people are basically belongs to the middle class . There are also rich and poor people all around . City Kolkata is know for its busy traffic ,huge population ,warm welcome and poverty around the street corners! It is a great place to visit for every tourist coming to India. More over if anyone get a chance to live with the local host family then that brings extra bonus to any traveller .It helps to learn the culture ,tradition,language while staying within the normal people of the society.Living on any hotel can never give any traveller such wide scope to know the society and communities as a whole. SMILE society always tries to give international volunteers a big scope to know about the local communities and understand the family environment. Volunteer can have a great fun to stay with the local host and learn local food habits/ culture/dress /cultural exchange programme on regular basis to learn each other as a part of the single SMILE family!! Volunteers would have great fun time altogether!e ¨
Open and flexible mind .Ready to get hands dirty.
ℹ️ Additional information
Living cost : Euro 200 /head ,it includes 3 times local food, shared room at local host family,car transportation to and fro project and ' accommodation,airport transfer , drinking water ,wifi facilities 2 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 in separate room), 3 times meal on self service basis.