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Volunteer India
Volunteer Destinations
Volunteer with Street Children/Children At-Risk in India
Project Summary
Project At A Glance
Location:
Delhi
Start point:
Delhi
End Point:
Delhi
Duration:
1-12 weeks
Hours:
20-30 hours per week
Food:
3 local food daily
Room:
Host family or hostel
Date:
Mondays of each month
Every child deserves shelter, food, education and emotional support. For this reason, IFRE is partnering with local organizations in India to provide at-risk or street children with an education and a safe and healthy environment. As a volunteer in India in the street/at-risk children project, you will brighten the lives of these children and decrease their chances of falling into threatening situations such as starvation, inhumane labor, theft or the sex industry. Volunteers help to protect, educate, support and provide friendships to these children so they may live normal childhoods and grow into healthy and productive citizens.

Local organizations urgently need your help to drastically enhance these children’s quality of life. This is the perfect project to truly make a difference, play with children, immerse yourself into Indian culture and explore a beautiful and exotic country.

Skills/Qualifications Needed
No specific qualifications are required to join the street children's project in India. However, interested individuals should have a passion and eagerness to help less fortunate children, as well as have a strong personality to deal with these children's often-unfortunate situations and demeanors.
Volunteer Responsibilities
As a volunteer in the Street Children Project in India, volunteers work with schools and nonprofit organizations 4-5 hours per day, Monday through Friday. Depending on individual skills and interests and the needs of the local staff, daily activities may include:
  • Teaching basic English, health, math, science or other subjects
  • Teaching computer lessons
  • Providing daily care to children
  • Helping prepare and serve food for children
  • Teaching children life skills such as gardening, business skills, painting, building, sewing, etc
  • Leading creative extracurricular activities such as games, sports, art, music, dancing, etc
  • Accompanying children to and from school
  • Helping to ensure the children are healthy
  • Providing love and attention
  • Watching over the children
  • Making children laugh
  • Teaching children about the world
  • Promoting fundraising activities
  • Assisting local administrations
  • Helping plan events and excursions
Room/Food/Supervision
IFRE manages living accommodations, provides meals and supervision for volunteers for the entirety of their stay in India. During the volunteer period, most volunteers stay in our safe and secure home base, project hostel or host families. Our office and home base is located in Gurgaon, a beautiful city 40 miles a way of Delhi international airport. This location is very safe and manned with onsite security. It is a clean, sparsely furnished apartment but will meet all your needs as an IFRE volunteers. It is close to the local bus station and many amenities are close by and transportation to nearby cities, Internet cafés, restaurants, supermarkets, local police stations, etc. This is the ideal arrangement for sharing your daily experiences with fellow volunteers and local staff. Home base bedrooms have multiple beds, so volunteers will usually share a room (same gender). Our in-country coordinator also lives at our home base to assist our volunteers 24/7.

Dependent on the season and flow of volunteers, you may be placed with a local host family or project hostel (mostly in orphanage). Our host families are socially respected and are experienced with hosting international volunteers. They have strong interest in our volunteers’ safety and well being and demonstrate this with caution and care. In most host family situations, volunteers will share a room with another volunteer of the same gender. Another viable option is an at-orphanage stay. Many orphanages in India have set aside special rooms to house international volunteers.

IFRE arranges room, food and supervision for volunteers throughout the program. All of IFRE’s cooks prepare a variety of delicious Indian food (naan, dahl and chapatti breads, curries, rice and pickles/chutneys). Details covering the arrangements for room/food are outlined in the prepared placement details. Volunteers will also have 24/7 access to IFRE's office as well as the mobile numbers of in-country coordinators. In addition, the director of the orphanage will serve as a local contact person for volunteers. IFRE's staff also visits each volunteer every 1-2 weeks as part of our program.

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