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Care for Disabled Children in India with Budget Volunteering
ORGANIZATION: Budget Volunteering BVOL
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
-
1 person is interested
Assist in a large institution in Madurai that cares for and schools approximately 160 children ranging from babies to the age of 4 or 5. About 130 of these students are provided with residential care; the others are brought to the school each day by their parents.
The children mainly suffer from Downs Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Microcephaly, Autism, Epilepsy, Deafness and some of the children are slow learners and dyslexic. The aim of the school is to help the children to study, build confidence and develop essential life skills.
At the Centre you will probably be working in many different areas, so you should be flexible and adaptable. Some of the areas where you'll be able to assist include:
- Helping with arts and crafts
- Helping with their hand-eye co-ordination skills
- Taking part (or watching!) the daily yoga sessions which help the children with their flexibility
- Helping the children to sew and embroider
- Getting involved with music and dance classes
- Helping the children eat or go to the toilet
- Helping the older children in the garden
- Assisting in the physiotherapy department
- Playing with the children; every day at 3pm is playtime and the children all bundle outside for half and hour of fun! Be prepared to be in great demand at this time!!
Minimum Program duration is 2 weeks and up to 24 weeks, mimum age is 17 unless accompanied by an adult. No qualifications necessary, just a love of children.
Program price ranges from $970 for 2 weeks and includes:
- Accommodation
- Food (excluding lunch)
- Meeting you at Buenos Aires Airport
- Transfer to your accommodation
- Induction/Orientation
- Budget for transport to and from your project
- Full pre-departure support
- Local in-country team support and backup
- 24-hr emergency support.
This is a very worthwhile project, working with children with mental, physical or emotional disabilities who are very much in need of love and attention and where your help is greatly appreciated!
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About Budget Volunteering BVOL
Location:
Mulberry Close, Ferring, Worthing, West Sussex BN125HY, GB
Mission Statement
BVOL sends volunteers all over the world to provide worthwhile assistance that benefits the projects (animals, children, communities) and our volunteers.
We work with carefully selected partner providers to ensure that we can bring you programmes at the lowest possible prices. Thus we have excellent, paid, local support-and-back-up staff teams plus provider teams in all of our destination countries.
Description
- We provide volunteering programs to people of all ages and nationalities in 20 countries in Asia, South and North America, Africa and Australasia.
- You can work with abused animals and threatened wildlife, care for disadvantaged children, teach English and other subjects in schools abroad, or gain experience on internships overseas.
- All our projects are risk-assessed and we have local staff in-country to look after you throughout your program
- All projects supported by us are chosen on the basis of being worthwhile which provide benefit to the project and to our volunteers.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Various schools and centresMadurai, Tamil Nadu 0000India
DATE POSTED
October 15, 2018
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
N/A