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Volunteering in India
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India Volunteer Care offers wide range of programs for the women and children. We offers programs to the women community on Micro Credit, Women empowerment, Awareness Generation Campaigns on Health and Hygiene, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, Domestic Violence, Family Counseling, Income Generation Activity. For the children, we offer Enrichment schools, Children's Parliament Programs, Sponsorship, teaching in Orphanages, supporting special needs children.
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Summer in Pondicherry
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A true South Indian experience and a lot of support from the Indian staff
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For my Dutch MSc program International Management I was looking for a NGO internship in India. Via India Volunteer Care I was assigned to work for Prime Trust, a microcredit organisation that aims to improve the standard of living of women in the Puducherry community. I am now in the third week of my ten week internship and so far I have had a wonderful experience.
Prime Trust organised a pickup from my hostel in Chennai and brought me to the IVC Guest house in Puducherry, where I now live with four other volunteers. The accommodation is cheap and absolutely well worhty; we have a big living room, a kitchen, a shower and Western toilet and even an office with a desk that we can use. The neighbourhood is safe and friendly and I feel totally comfortable walking outside alone by day and night.
With regard to the internship, Prime Trust gave me (and all others) a big amount of freedom in choosing what I wanted to do. The first week included an introduction to all Prime Trust's programs. I visited the orphanage, a remedial school, the micro credit office and a Self-Help group (a group of women that together apply for microcredit).
I am now spending most of my time on fundraising in order to raise funds for Prime Trust's programs, wirting newspaper articles in order to make Prime Trust more known, and conducting awareness programs to the Self-Help Groups. Furthermore, I teach English and am involved in the organisation of activities for the children of the remedial schools and the orphanage.
For me, my internship at Prime Trust (via India Volunteer Care) has given me the opportunity to truly experience the South Indian culture. The staff is very committed and very supportive and open to all new ideas. I can recommend everyone to come to Puducherry and work for Prime Trust!
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I had wonderful experience with India volunteer care. They have offered what I came with my own expectations. I was offered a nice place to stay, good guidance about the project and periodical interactions with me and regular feed back made me feel happy.
In addition to that I had an opportunity to learn tamil lessions, yoga and south indian cooking.
I've spent 8 weeks here so far, and to think I'm leaving in 4 weeks greatly saddens me. Keeping in mind working and living in India is just that, working and living in India, being a person from the United States I've found after small adjustments that this is one of the most wonderful places I've ever lived and worked. The staff (specifically the director) is extremely open to any projects or ideas the interns have. It should be noted that Prime Trust will not require much of you, interns must be self-motivating with projects - but the staff is always there to assist you in whatever you're interested in pursuing in your time with them.
Specifically, I've been involved teaching English to the children in the evening schools, as well as much computer work - fundraising, grant writing, updating our blogs/facebook/website, and things of that nature. There is much work to be done here by international interns, so if one is motivated enough to take on projects and manage their time well, I think you'll leave feeling like you've really made a difference - either directly to the people Prime Trust serves, or indirectly by building the efficiency and capacity of Prime Trust as an organization.
Living here with other interns has been a big part of my growth as a person as well. People from all over the world are always moving in and out of Prime Trust's guest houses, and there is always some to go eat eat dinner with or to take out to the cinema.