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Grassroots Service Project with Women in India
Location: India: Varanasi
Term: Academic Year, Fall, Spring
Program Duration: 3-6 months (includes high school academic semester abroad), 7-12 months (includes high school academic year abroad)
Typical Duration of Program: 3-6 months
LEAPNOW: Transforming Education
11640 Hwy. 128 Calistoga, CA 94515 United States
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Phone: 707-431-7265
Fax: 707-431-8479
Description
Volunteers are needed to help with a grassroots project in Northern India that reuses plastic bags to make artisan bowls and baskets. The service work includes organizing materials for the projects, helping market the textiles and assisting the director with other administrative tasks. Volunteers will learn how to make the textiles themselves as well as work with local impoverished women and children who are making the textiles.
Highlights
This volunteer project is run by a woman who also runs a small family style guest house. This is a fantastic project for people interested in working a local project that employs undereducated females in the area as well as learning about how to start and manage a grassroots organization. Internship volunteers should be mature, innovative and prepared for long days in a culture that can be challenging. The guesthouse is in a semi-rural setting near a large city. Women should be prepared to dress in traditional and conservative clothing throughout the duration of their volunteer project.
This opportunity is part of the LEAPYEAR program - Check out our website for more details!
Qualifications
Mature, self motivated, hard workers. Must be comfortable working with impoverished women and children.
Intern Types
- Art/Fine Arts
- Communications
- Creative Writing
- Education
- Environmental Studies
- Human Rights
- Humanities
- International Trade
- Journalism
- Marketing, Ad, PR
- Sales
- Social Work
- Sustainable Development
- Web Design
- Women's Studies
Languages
- English
- Hindi
Cost in US$:
Credit Available
no
Volunteer Types
- Adult Education
- Arts
- Business
- Childcare/children
- Community Development
- Community Health
- Community Organizing
- Consciousness-raising
- Conservation
- Culture
- Economic Development
- Education
- English Teaching
- Environment
- Gender Issues
- Global Warming
- Grassroots Organization
- Health
- Marketing
- Media Work
- Micro-enterprise
- Organizational Development
- Playgrounds
- Small Business Development
- Social Services, Social Work
- Volunteering
- Women
This Program is open to
Worldwide Participant. This Program is also open to Couples and Individuals.
Typical Living Arrangements
- Group living
- Home-stays
- Independent living
Participants Travel to India
Independently or in Groups
Application Process Involves
- Written Application
- In-Person Interview Required
Typically The Application Process Time is
1 weekPost Services Include
- Exit Debriefing Abroad
- Job and Internship Network
- Re-Entry Debriefing at Home
LEAPNOW: Transforming Education's Mission Statement
Leapnow's primary purpose is nothing less than transformation and positive change on the planet. We aspire to keep our work on the cutting edge of human evolution. We feel that we can have the most positive impact on the world by working in the area of education- which ideally is all about transforming and expanding the consciousness of our students. Cultural immersion, study and work abroad are our main vehicles for learning about one's self and the world.
Year Founded
1993
