Boomers Abroad

Description

Take the opportunity to explore a popular area of India well known for its festivals and festivities and other areas of interest such as yoga-related health tourism. Located at the foot of the Chamundi Hills, Mysore is bound to defy your expectations of India and provide you with a multitude of memories that you will surely cherish for a lifetime. In your spare time, discover this ancient and fascinating city, and its beautiful surrounding countryside where you will find captivating wildlife, remote villages that uphold traditional artisanal lifestyles and some of the most arresting scenery in the world. Travel to India for a unique and satisfying volunteering experience that will provide lifelong memories whilst totally changing your world perspective!

What Will I Be Doing?

* Introduction Week
Your first week is designed to give you an opportunity to explore the history and culture of India, and of course Mysore, with visits to local sites of special interest, cooking lessons, and possibly your first taste of yoga and meditation, practices that are central to Indian philosophy and way of life. Following this wonderful opportunity to fully immerse yourself in your new surroundings, your briefings for the volunteer work will begin.

* Volunteer Work
Your work programme and schedule will vary depending on the time of your visit and any personal interest or experience, but with a little flexibility and enthusiasm you are sure to have a wonderful experience. All volunteers are encouraged to leave their own personal mark on the project work, and the range of activities available to you includes:

* Teaching
Experience the heartbeat of the future generation of Mysore, as you bring your own teaching style to the classroom. Make a difference to the lives of the children who will hang on your every word, and make friends for life with the teachers and students alike.

* Orphanage Work
Whilst not an orphanage in the Western sense of the word, you will find the children for whom the orphanage is a home to be from an underprivileged background and yearning for support and stability. Involve yourself in teaching, games, workshops, and construction and renovation work, and indeed anything else in which you have experience.

* Kindergarten Work
With patience and creativity you will soon find bonds of trust developing between yourself and the youngest children of Mysore. Limited only by your imagination your time with the kids could be spent colouring, drawing, teaching basic English and singing songs.

* Elderly Care Work
Contribute to the everyday running of a local care home for the elderly with maintenance and improvement work, decoration and gardening work, and learn about the India of the past from the residents who will be equally as eager to learn about your life and home.