MTV-Einsatzstellen in Indien: FSL
Here you find the FSL India MTV-program 2011 and 2012 :
The project fields will mainly be in rural areas where there has not been much development or economic activity. The projects described above are seasonal and vary accordingly.
Costs: FSL India is a non–profit organization and does not have external funding. All costs of FSL India are sustained through participation fees from volunteers only.
We work only with local organizations that want support of volunteers.
RS 12.500 per month starting in 2012 (12.500 Rs entsprechen ca. 181 Euro)
Kindly note : For the last 10 Years FSL- India has maintained a Participation fee of Rs10,000/- per month. However, due to high inflation rates and increasing prices we have increased the Participation fee to Rs12,500/- per month starting from Year 2012. This increase in the fee directly goes to the hosting, food, local transport, etc and not to the coordination fee.
Accomodation: Accommodation for volunteers can either be at the project, in a local host family or in a hostel depending on the project, location and availability. You could be sharingrooms with 2-3 volunteers or staying on your own. Volunteers should be ready for basic accommodation and basic Indian food. As part of the community living experience, volunteers are expected to adjust to shared bedrooms, strict timings, house rules and dress code.
Dates: The starting date of the program is the First Monday of Every Month: Participants should make sure that they will be able to arrive in Kundapur by that date. All volunteers will meet at a common meeting point in Kundapur. The program will start with a week long orientation.
An infosheet: will be sent to your sending organization about one month before your arrival in India.
Projects:
The following section provides an overview of the Projects available from January 2012-December 2012.In this section you will find details about the type of projects that you can volunteer in. Please read these carefully before applying.
LTV O1 – TEACHING
LTV O1 A – Regular Teaching
LTV O1 B – Orphan Children Teaching
LTV O1 C – Ethnic Tribes Teaching
LTV O1 D – Street Children Teaching
LTV O2 – ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS
LTV O2 A – Sea Turtle Conservation
LTV O2 B – Environmental Education
LTV O2 C – Eco-Tourism
LTV O2 D – Eco-Clubs
LTV O2 E – Rain Water Harvesting
LTV O2 F – Sanitation programme
LTV O3 – SOCIAL PROJECTS
LTV O3 A – Physically Handicapped and Mentally Challenged Children’s Project
LTV O3 B – Rehabilitation Projects
LTV O3 C – Old Age Home
LTV O3 D – Women Empowerment
LTV O3 E – Slum Development
LTV O4 – MEDICAL AND HEALTH
LTV O4 A – HIV and AIDS Awareness and Care of Support
LTV O4 B – Rural Medication
LTV O4 C – Rural Mid wife
LTV O5 - SPECIAL PROJECTS
LTV O5 A – Special teaching
LTV O5 B – Special learning
LTV O5 C – Model Village Project - Teaching
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LTV 01 – TEACHING
LTV O1 A – Regular Teaching
Education is an important tool for development. Teaching spoken English, basic Math, Health and Hygiene awareness, Environmental education and conducting co-curricular activities with local school children can be a rewarding experience.
You will be working in a Kannada Medium School, which lacks in resources and/or English teaching staff. One of the important aims of this project is to support the staff in the classroom and to bring an international dimension to learning. Your tasks will be to assist with English language learning using creative teaching methods to encourage and to develop learning level and cognitive skills in the students. You will also assist with extra-curricular activities, inspiring children to learn new languages and learn about new cultures.
You may have to assist in developing teaching and learning aids with low cost or no cost locally available materials, and facilitate simulations games for the children and the teaching faculties. Undertake capacity development of teaching faculty in classroom management, children’s learning needs assessment. You will assist in designing developmentally appropriate tools and criteria for assessment children’s learning levels and cognitive skills, Individual goal setting for children with learning disability, lesson planning etc. You will be developing teaching-learning methods and pass this information (through the Final Evaluation/Report) to future volunteers with a view to creating long-term improvements to the educational model.
The volunteers should bring in creative ideas to initiate new activities in the school, for example, environmental, organizational or computer education. You have to love children, as you will be surrounded by them everyday. If you have many ideas in teaching different kinds of activities such as games, songs, arts and crafts or sports and athletics to children then this type of project is for you! You will be teaching a variety of subjects depending on your personal interests and skills. Volunteers should have a good level of spoken English and some knowledge in teaching children will be useful.
Note: Please note that the project will not run between the Months of March until May. Three weeks in October are winter holidays and depending on the school there are also holidays in December. During these months, volunteers are encouraged to take part in a summer and/or a winter holiday camp.
LTV O1 B – Orphan Children Teaching
Volunteers have the chance to work in orphanages, by supporting the staff in the project with the daily care of orphan children. The work is varied and so you must be flexible in tackling your work. The work could involve rehabilitation, education and supporting the orphan children to return and participate within mainstream life.The work might also include cleaning activities, cooking, gardening, playing with the children in the evening, helping with homework, teaching and singing.
A creative approach to work will be useful - If you have many ideas in teaching different kinds of activities such as games, songs, arts and crafts or sports and athletics to children, then this type of project is for you! You will need to take a flexible approach to the work with and be prepared to undertake variety of tasks.
The Info sheet will have more information regarding the individual projects with schedules, and activities.
LTV O1 C – Ethnic Tribes Teaching
There are several ethnic minorities in India. NGOs are working towards community development to prepare them to participate and compete within the mainstream society. The primary focus of NGOs is to help the tribal communities cope with issues that they are facing with- such as education problems, lack of adequate medical care and isolation. Working in this field requires a high degree of flexibility, and volunteers must try get involved directly with these people and with the staff of the local project.
Most projects in this field are located in rural and remote areas, near to or within the tribal communities. You will be working with tribal communities and therefore be prepared for bare minimum and simple living conditions. There will also be a strong language barrier which will be a challenge for anyone working in this field.
A prior experience or a good knowledge of these kinds of situations is appreciated. Most of the development work carried out by NGOs working towards community development projects is based on education, awareness, creation, livelihood promotion and health development. Therefore the volunteers will be required to teach in most of the projects where they work with tribal children. So an interest in teaching and love for children is important. However, you could also be supporting the staff in the daily running of the orphanage, when the children go to their normal school.
A creative approach to work is useful and you will have the opportunity to initiate new mini projects or activities. You will have to be prepared for a flexible approach to the work and be willing to undertake a variety of tasks.
If you have many ideas of teaching different kinds of activities such as games, songs, arts and crafts or sports and athletics to children, then this type of project is for you!
LTV O1 D – Street Children Teaching
Many NGOs and local initiatives in India work for the welfare of street children or “working children”, and FSL India is one of them. The aim is to take these children away from the streets and from their working place in order to give them a chance to live a decent and accepted standard of life. By placing them in centres, boarding schools and or day-care shelters, the children return to the regular schooling system and/or to train them in vocational education and give them skills that would help them find a decent job and keep them away from exploitation.
Much of the development work in street children projects is based on education known also as alternative education. Therefore, the volunteers will be required to teach in most of the projects where they work with street children. And hence an interest in teaching and love for children is essential in this project, like all teaching projects. Other work activities will involve supporting the staff in the daily running of the schools.
A creative approach to work and deal with the children will be useful and you will have the opportunity to initiate new mini projects or activities. You need to have a flexible approach to work children difficult circumstances and be prepared to undertake a variety of tasks.
In some cases the volunteer will be required to go amidst the “tent” community to raise awareness of the teaching programme, gain interest and collect children. If you have many ideas in teaching different kinds of activities such as games, songs, arts and crafts or sports and athletics to children, then this type of project assignment suit for you!
Note: These projects are running all year long
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LTV O2 – ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS
LTV O2 A – Sea Turtle Conservation
For the last 15 years, the Sea Turtle population has been under threat from fishing and egg predation by locals. Three species of the protected Sea Turtles are nesting on India’s West Coast and all of them are endangered species. With an effort to save the life of these endangered species, promote eco-system and addresses environmental issues, FSL India is working along 60 kilometre stretch of the beach in the south and north of Kundapur, Karnataka. Right now, the work is focused on sea turtle protection and conservation. The work involves surveys, data gathering and analysis, awareness generation amongst the local community and within schools, harbours and fishing communities. You will also be required to build hatcheries and temporary information centres, as well as design and create promotional material.
Please note: This project is seasonal and starts in August and runs until February, only for six months. The work requires high degree of motivation, interest and some knowledge in this particular field is useful. Please remember in the first month and the last month the majority of the work you will have to be engaged in documentations.
There is NO guarantee that you will see sea turtles, hatchlings or eggs whilst working on this project.
LTV O2 B – Environmental Education
This project has been set up by FSL India in collaboration with local NGOs. The primary aim is to educate lower economic and social groups, the local community, youth and children about environmental issues concerns, good practices and present situations. This project is usually run in rural areas where there has not been much development.
As a volunteer in this project, you have to develop and support with creative education in nature and ecology conservation and educate the local community on the economic and social benefits of environmental protection and conservation of nature and natural resources. You will have to visit schools, colleges, and youth groups and organise environmental educational workshops and disseminate information to various stakeholder on environment protection.
There is an ample opportunity to work with the local community where our volunteers, together with field assistants, try and create model streets. The local community is introduced to on Solid waste management, the building of compost pits and the separation of biodegradable material. There is a lot of scope for interested volunteers who have prior experience to bring in their ideas have them inbuilt component within the project.
*Please note minimum application for Environmental Education is for four months.
LTV O2 C – Eco Tourism
Ecotourism involves two major themes: Nature and Culture. Ecotourism is a form of responsible travel which contributes to the protection of the environment in natural areas, and the preservation of culture in local communities. It also provides conscious travellers with unique experiences which cannot be provided by mass tourism. This is a new project initiated by FSL India, which means there is still a lot to be explored and experimented while undertaking such developmentally appropriate interventions!
Volunteers will start by getting to know the village, neighbourhood and the villagers in order to work together with them and see the different aspects of their lives. Educating the locals about the problems and exploring possibilities with Eco-tourism is an important aspect of the work.
Volunteers have to develop a working methodology that taps into local resources and volunteers will develop a way of working, drawing local potential, introducing and setting up structures, such as:
· Creating a database of information of the surrounding areas
· Training and working with the local community in order to involve them and ensure active participation.
· Raising awareness on environmental and cultural preservation
· Setting up and running the Eco Tourism project
· Making a website and promoting Ecotourism as a form of livelihoods for the local community.
The main fields of work are: art, traditional life, sights, environmental awareness, food, agriculture, industry, medicine, landscape, outdoor activities, religion, and spiritual experience. Each of these fields is divided into more sub-fields. You will be working in a small team or individually to complete the database. The work profile includes site-based research. Therefore, the ability to search and research, preparing documents write reports is appreciated.
*Please note minimum application is for four months.
LTV O2 D – Eco-Clubs
Eco-club is a governmental initiative which was introduced 5 years ago in government schools. As part of this initiative, Eco-clubs were formed in schools and the members are comprised of school children. The aim of Eco-club is to introduce environmental concerns and good practices to the school children so as to make them actively involved and to be aware of the necessity to protect nature. However, most government schools lack personnel and financial means to run the Eco-clubs effectively and efficiently. As a result, Eco-clubs have been formed in most schools but they do not function as these should have been.
Hence, the FSL India-Eco-Clubs projects were initiated with an objective of supporting schools, the children and the teachers. Since August 2008, volunteers have run a 5-sessions programme in different schools in the surrounding areas of Kundapur for the children in the 8th standard. These sessions combine theoretical and practical learning methods and input. Children those who have been trained this year, will train the next batch of children to run the Eco clubs. At the moment we have a potential of about 200 children ready to pursue our work.
As a volunteer your task will be to design and run the sessions in the schools with the help of other volunteers, a field assistant and teachers. You will have to be creative, innovative and love for children, as they are the primary stakeholders of the project. You will also get the chance to work with the local community in order to organize some outdoor events for the children.
LTV O2 E – Rain Water Harvesting
Water resource being one of the scarce natural resources, there is a tremendous need for harvesting available rain water. With the concept of catch where water it falls, FSL India networks with local organisations that are working for conservation and promotion of water resources through multiple approaches. Generating awareness among various sections of the local communities is an important dimension of FSL India's programmes. Volunteers can contributes to these initiatives through various creative input and participation in campaigns for promoting water literacy, documentation and research undertakings.
LTV O2 F – Sanitation Programme
Health and sanitation is the priority area in development, both in rural and urban areas. Especially, in villages, open defecation is common, thanks to want of proper education, awareness and traditional belief systems. FSL India is making its share of contribution through implementing sanitation based programmes through multiple interventions that includes 'Model Village Project', Environment Education Project and also through volunteer service in various locations.
These projects along with other objective, support 100% toilets construction in the villages and generate widespread awareness on various potential diseases due to want of proper hygiene and sanitation. Volunteer's works under sanitation would include construction of sanitary toilets, education and awareness generation among students and adult community in the proposed villages through innovative methods etc.
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LTV 03 – SOCIAL PROJECTS
LTV O3 A – Physically and Mentally Challenged Children’s Project
These children are discriminated and rejected by mainstream society and therefore volunteers are needed to participate and bring joy in their live of these children, and help the NGO to bring some structure changes in their daily lives and prepare them for adulthood.
Working with persons/children with various forms disability can be quite a challenging task for anyone. However, the spirit of these people can bring lot of joy and a lot can be learnt from this experiences. The main work will be teaching and supporting the staff in their daily activities for the care of physically and/or mentally disabled children. Individual goal setting and planning for holistic development of children/persons with disability with home-based, community based or institutional based approach is essential for which volunteer as part of the group would contribute great deal. It needs a bit of flexibility and openness to all kinds of works and activities.
Additional work activities would involve maintenance and gardening work, preparing meals, serving them, cleaning and giving company.
A creative approach to work is useful and you will have the opportunity to initiate new mini projects or activities. You will need to take a flexible approach to the work with and you should be prepared to undertake multi-tasks.
LTV O3 B – Rehabilitation Projects
There are many NGOs working for social inclusion projects where minorities or less fortunate people have been left behind in the race and struggle for economic and social justice. FSL India makes efforts to motivate/support them by placing interested volunteers to help them in their office, field work or to bring in new innovative ideas to their work. The work varies from project to project. Therefore, in the application volunteers must write clearly indicating why they want to work on such projects and also how they can contribute to the projects. Following are examples of the different kinds of projects:
· Projects where working children are given vocational training ;
· Projects where young people are given training in various trades ;
· Projects where Micro-finances are given to a minority community and we help them to become economically stable.
· Projects where computer education is given.
· Projects with disabled children and/or adults, in order to give them more autonomy and to eventually reintegrate them in the mainstream of society.
Volunteers can help in many ways; for example there were instances when volunteers have taken photographs of local projects and helped them build a web page. Then volunteers in a vocational training centre helped the project to make a catalogue of all their products. Volunteers have helped projects by implementing a good filing system, helped in survey and data collection. Here creativity plays a major role, and prior experience can help the project as well as the volunteer.
FSL India also helps less fortunate youth from slums or low economic backgrounds by giving them training in camp leading or office work. For example, slum boys will be recruited and given training in camp leading. After training they will work as camp leaders for a year. Then they go back to their slum and organize work camps for the next year so as to bring in development to their community.
LTV O3 C – Old Age Home
FSL India helps many projects by sending volunteers to old age homes where the elderly are neglected and forgotten by the mainstream of society. Geriatric care and concern for the older people is becoming more important today.
Working at an Old Aged home can be quite a challenging task. The work will include interacting with the old people and basic support towards the staff in their daily routine. Volunteers will take part helping in the daily activities, medical care, special programmes for physical exercise, and giving company to the elderly.
This project is for those who are willing to work with old people and also for those who like this kind of work.
LTV O3 D – Women Empowerment
Many NGOs and government organizations are increasingly putting women at the centre of their projects and are working out programmes and strategies in which they support the socially and economically disadvantaged women of India. Empowering women and educating them on their constitutional rights, and the law, work towards the achievement of social and economic security of women.
Since most of the women you are going to work with come from an underprivileged background low economic status, they speak very little or no English. Therefore, be prepared to find creative and alternative ways of communicating with such group. Please note that the work mainly involves working in the office with the NGO as well as field work.
LTV O3 E – Slum Development
Indian cities suffer from huge urbanization problems and slums are present and growing in many cities and town. These areas of the cities are clusters of houses and shacks built illegally, where all basic infrastructures are absent. Water and electricity supply and other civic amenities are scarce or non existent, hygiene is low and outbreaks of diseases are common. The rate of unemployment is very high.
The aim of many NGOs working in the slums is to improve the basic living conditions of the large number of people living in these slums. The volunteers will have the opportunity to join hands with the local NGOs to support ongoing projects such as awareness campaigns, literacy programmes, educational projects and empowerment of minorities.
A prior experience and/or a good knowledge of the situation are appreciated. Working and living conditions can be harder.
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LTV O4 – MEDICAL AND HEALTH
LTV O4 A – HIV/AIDS Awareness and Care of Support
HIV and AIDS related issues are a world wide problem which is threatening the entire human population. There are many NGOs taking up this issue and working to tackle this problem. Each NGO adapts different methods; some work in promoting awareness whereas other NGOs work directly with people who are infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Volunteers applying for this field must have some prior experience or some medical background.
The work is varied and will involve assisting the NGOs in their programmes. The work would predominantly be awareness raising and not practical work with AIDS patients. In these organizations, volunteers will be required to help and give counselling, to work in hospitals or homes by treating patients, participating in daily care and also to provide education and social activities.
LTV O4 B – Rural Medication
The regional medical colleges and government institutes conduct rural health check-ups and rural medication as part of health legislations. There is always a lack of staff support.
The volunteers will work and serve as medical assistants and help the rural medical team as a team member. Volunteers applying for this programme must have medical background.
LTV O4 C – Rural Midwifery
Standards of safe practices are required to reassure women who plan to deliver their babies in rural settings. Sadly, government hospitals are severely under-staffed and over-worked. Thus medical and paramedical professional assistants are severely needed in these settings. Volunteers applying for this programme must be trained in a medical or paramedical filed so as contribute in health requirements of people. The volunteers will work and serve as medical assistants and help the rural medical team as a team member, within villages and government hospitals.
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LTV O5 - SPECIAL PROJECTS
LTV O5 A – Special teaching
Do you have any vocational or special skills other than what is mentioned in our project information section above? For example, are you a musician? Are you a carpenter? Are you an Electrician? Or do you have skills in sewing? Are you a qualified teacher in Math\s or IT/Computing, website design?
If so, we welcome you to contact us as we can consider special projects for you in which, you could use your special skills to benefit and serve an underprivileged community.
LTV O5 B – Special learning
As FSL India works towards cultural understanding, and hence we collaborate with many local institutes, schools, individual groups who are working to keep the local folk art, music, culture, traditions alive. We also have an option for placing volunteers who are interested in this field, to help these mini projects by involving themselves in these art forms to learn and to give performances to spread it to others.
The different fields are:
Dance
Music
Wood Carving
Stone Carving
Yoga
Massage
Eco Farming
Puppetry
Please note during free time the volunteers are also expected to be engaged in some social work like teaching in the local schools or helping other volunteers in other projects. For these projects, you have to pay an extra charge of approximately Rupees 2,000 - 3,000 per month depending on the skill you want to learn.
LTV O5 C – Model Village Project - Teaching
In May 2009, FSL India initiated the Model Village Project in 8 villages located in Kanchipuram district of Chennai. As part of the Model Village Project, a group of 8 villages will be developed over a period of 4 years with a long term sustainable outcome in perspective. Through the Model Village Project we promote and undertake activities related to Education, Medical and Health, Renovation, Environment and solid waste management, Income Generation activities for the local community etc. As a volunteer in this project, you will be placed in a Teaching project in the Government schools of the Model Village in Chennai.
Education is an important tool for development. Teaching spoken English, basic Maths, Health and Hygiene awareness, Environmental education and conducting extracurricular activities with local school children can be a rewarding experience.
You will be working in a Vernacular Medium School (Tamil), which lacks in resources and/or English teaching staff. One of the important aims of this project is to support the staff in the classroom and to bring an international dimension to learning. Your tasks will be to assist with English language learning using creative teaching methods to encourage and to improve the learning levels and cognitive skills in the students. You will also assist with extracurricular activities, inspiring children to learn new languages and learn about new cultures.
You may have to assist in developing teaching and learning aids with low cost or no cost locally available materials, and facilitate simulations games for the children and the teaching faculties. Undertake capacity development of teaching faculty in classroom management, children’s learning needs assessment. You will assist in designing developmentally appropriate tools and criteria for assessment children’s learning levels and cognitive skills, Individual goal setting for children with learning disability, lesson planning etc. You will be developing teaching-learning methods and pass this information (through the Final Evaluation/Report) to future volunteers with a view to creating long-term improvements to the educational model.
The volunteers should bring in creative ideas to initiate new activities in the school, for example, environmental, organizational or computer education. You have to love children, as you will be surrounded by them every day. If you have many ideas in teaching different kinds of activities such as games, songs, arts and crafts or sports and athletics to children then this type of project is for you! You will be teaching a variety of subjects depending on your personal interests and skills. Volunteers should have a good level of spoken English and some knowledge in teaching children will be useful.
Note: Please note that the project will not run between the Months of March until May. Three weeks in October are winter holidays and depending on the school there are also holidays in December. During these months, volunteers are encouraged to take part in a summer and/or a winter holiday camp.
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Accommodation for Volunteers:
Accommodation for volunteers can either be at the project, in a local host family or in a hostel – Depending on the project, location and availability.