Einsatzstellen Indien: UDAVI
Requested knowledge of language in all projects: English
Please note: The local language in Chennai is Tamil, not all Indians can speak English.
Ideally volunteers should have some experience in social work or in media/communication.
UDAVI-01: Rehabilitation for Street and Working Children
Dieses Projekt wurde als ADIA- Einsatzstelle (Andere Dienste im Ausland für Zivildienstleistende) anerkannt.
1. Name of project-host: UDAVI Place: Chennai Region: Tamil Nadu
2. Number of volunteers: 2
3. Starting-date: May or September
4. Description of the local project:
Street Children (runaway) are those who are living on/and of the street with, without and occasionally with family contact. Those who have run away from home, who wanted to study/work but were not allowed and came to experience the exciting experiences of city life, glamorized by magazines and movies. They experience family problems they are unable to solve: i.e., alcoholism, child abuse, ill treatment by stepparents, unemployment and poverty. Their tolerance level has been far exceeded, leading to the drastic decision to leave their family. Most street children find themselves some work, even though they may not be steady and lose jobs regularly. Many think of rag picking as a job;. The health condition of street children is generally poor. Many suffer from chronic diseases like TB, leprosy, typhoid, malaria, jaundice, and liver/kidney disorders. Venereal disease is rampant among older ones (14yrs+). HIV & AIDS cases are now widely seen. Most street children are exposed to dirt, smoke and other environmental hazards. They are constantly exposed to intense sun, rain and cold. UDAVI aims to develop the child in a holistic manner - physically, emotionally, psychologically, socially, morally and financially thus enabling them to settle comfortably in society. Since 1997 Short stay home has been consistently reaching out to the unreached children on the street and has gradually developed a holistic rehabilitation programme. This programme has various different facets such as Street contact, Street Education, Health care, counseling, home placement, vocational training and job placement. This programme is implemented at Koyambedu whole sale market (Vegetable, Fruit and flower whole sale business center) and mofusil bus terminus (Chennai city bus terminus which is linked with other districts and parts of South India).
4. Field of work: Non- formal education, recreation, health awareness, counselling, youth- employment/vocational training, research and documentation
5. Special qualifications required:
• Interested to work with the Street children (boys)
• Committed to work for the runaways, rag pickers and child labourer
• Creativity skills to evolve innovative ideas for the implementation of new activities for the betterment of the street children's life
• Able to co-ordinate and work with the staff team
• creative skills in art and english teaching and flexibility to learn the regional language Tamil
Special qualifications recommended: Graduate in social work, youth counselors, child educators, professionals with research background and those with teaching or recreational skills.
6. Description of the tasks of the volunteer:
• Able to do field activities e.g. street contacts, identifying and rapport building along with the staff team
• Individual and group counseling towards positive living
• Recreational activities for children and youth, creative training in drawing and painting
• Organizing health awareness training and health camps with staff team
• think of new educational activities/concepts
• English classes for children of the flower market.
• Assist the staff team in documentation, research and resource mobilisation
UDAVI-03: Prevention of STI/HIV/AIDS and Care and Support for Infected and Affected persons among the Slum Communities
1. Name of project-host: UDAVI Place: Chennai Region: Tamil Nadu
2. Number of volunteers: 2 Starting-date: May or September
3. Description of the local project: UDAVIs STI/HIV/AIDS intervention programme among the slum dwellers was initiated in the year 2003. Our major activities are promoting prrevention and reference for quality treatment. The activities are being done by our staff team peer educators and community volunteers. Apart from this, we extend care and support for the people living with HIV/AIDS (infected/ affected). The major intervention are formation of peoples organisation among people living with HIV/AIDS, promoting economic development activities, job placement, educational assistance to the children (infected/affected) and ensuring their basic entitlements, addressing legal issues and campaign and advocacy.
4. Field of work: Promoting awareness and health seeking behaviour, educational assistance, skill training and income generating activities, and legal assistance.
5. Special qualifications required:
• Interested to work in the Slum Community
• Committed to work with the HIV/AIDS infected and affected
• Creativity skills to evolve innovative ideas for income generating activities for the people living with HIV/AIDS
• Able to work with the staff team in campaign and advocacy work
Special qualifications recommended:
Preferably nutritionist, public health worker, psychologist, vocational trainers, skills in documentation and publication work
6. Description of the tasks of the volunteer:
• Conducting health awareness programmes in the slum communities
• Conducting life skills education for teen club members
• Documenting case studies
• Organising exhibition and campaign activities
• Involve in preparation of manuals relating to public health
• Formulating Income Generation Programme (IGP) for the HIV Positive
• Counselling the HIV infected families
• Recreational activities for the infected and affected children
• Mobilizing resources for the support of the infected families
• Involve in fundraising activities for the organisation
UDAVI-04: Rehabilitation for the displaced
Dieses Projekt ist als ADIA- Einsatzstelle (Andere Dienste im Ausland für Zivildienstleistende) anerkannt.
1. Name of project-host: UDAVI Place: Chennai Region: Tamil Nadu
2. Number of volunteers: 2
Starting-date: May or September
3. Description of the local project: This project focuses on people living in relocated, resettled areas in the outskirts of Chennai. Due to beautification of Chennai and resettlement of victims of Tsunami from the coastal area, nearly 25000 families have been shifted to Okiyam Thuraipakkam and Chemencherry, which is 25 Kilometers away from city of Chennai (appr. 2h by bus from the volunteers flat/office). The Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board proposes to create a slum free Chennai by 2013. As an attempt towards this the slum communities are gradually being relocated to resettlement areas in the outskirts of Chennai. Most of the displaced families belong to the marginalised dalit community who lived in the coastal area more than 40 years ago, engaged in fishing related activities. The major issues in the displaced communities are unemployment, school dropouts, child labour, inadequate health facilities and lack of basic facilities such as inadequate housing, water, drainage, electricity, roads, transportation and recreation facilities, gender equalities. UDAVI's activities are supporting children's education, health, recreation, livelihood activities for women headed families, vocational training and job placement to the unemployed youth and ensuring rights towards basic amenities through community based activities.
4. Field of work: Education, Human rights, Youth-employment, Health, Emergency aid, Campaign and Advocacy, Economic activity, and Sports
5. Special qualifications required:
• Involve in issues related to displaced communities at the grass root level
• To work at grass root level with community people
• Experience in advocacy and campaign activities
• Skills in teaching
• Skills in organising art and sports activities
• the volunteer needs to have stamina, be able to work independent and be creative
Special qualifications recommended:
• Analytical skill in research and documentation
6. Description of the tasks of the volunteer:
• Sports and cultural activities for children and youth
• Teaching english class for school children
• Organising health camps for the community people along with the staff team
• Organising life skill training programme for the youth
• Extending rehabilitation services for the disabled like skill training and creating income generation programme
• Making film documentary of project activities
UDAVI-05: Community based Rehabilitation for the Persons with Disability
1. Name of project-host: UDAVI Place: Chennai Region: Tamil Nadu
2. Number of volunteers: 2 Starting-date: May or September
3. Description of the local project: UDAVI has initiated its community based rehabilitation for empowering the persons with disability in 32 slums in the city of Chennai, covering 440 persons with disability among the various categories such as orthopedically handicapped, mentally retarded, visually impaired, hearing impaired, epileptic, cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities. The major problems faced by the vulnerable group are dependency, stigmatisation, lack of opportunity for special services, illiteracy, unemployment, neglected by family, lack of self-esteem and productivity level, lack of social security and denial of basic rights. To address these issues, UDAVI's strategic intervention is community based rehabilitation. The major activities are formation of disabled peoples organisation and federation, need based rehabilitation and prevention activities such as awareness, early intervention and referral services. A special education centre is being run for mentally challanged at the community and the mobile physiotherapy service for the disabled persons who have restricted mobility and geriatric persons in the community who need physiotherapy services.
4. Field of work: Special education, vocational training, capacity building for the members of the disabled people’s organisation, awareness of the Rights of Disabled Persons, advocacy, linkage, and network with government organisations and non-government organisations for ensuring the rights of disabled persons.
5. Special qualifications required:
• Empathetic and motivated towards working with people with disabilities
• To work at the community level to address the rehabilitation of disabled people
• Skills to organise campaign and advocacy programmes
• Special education teachers for the mentally challenged children
Special qualifications recommended:
• Diploma or graduate in rehabilitation science
• Experience in working with disabled persons
• Qualified physiotherapist, occupational therapist and special educators
• Willingness to work with the disabled at the field.
6. Description of the tasks of the volunteer: Rehabilitation through the disabled people’s organisation:
• Involve in the activities of the disabled people's organisations (meetings and trainings)
• Identify the needs of the Disabled and plan for individual rehabilitation with the staff team
• Finding alternative employment avenues suggest and initiate income generation programme for the disabled
• Involve in networking and campaigning programme
• Involve in research and documentation
• Making film documentary of project activities
Day care Center:
• Involve in the teaching process for the mentally challenged
• Create new teaching aid for the children
• Plan recreational activities like craft work and drawing
• Arranging picnics for them
• The actual tasks can vary according to the projects current needs and depend on the volunteers own initiative.
Rehabilitation on Wheels (Mobile Unit):
• Visit to target slum communities for extension of physiotherapy and occupational therapeutic Interventions
• Assessment of need based Therapeutic interventions for the clients
• Extending geriatric care for the community
• Maintaining records of the therapeutic intervention and planning follow up action
• The actual tasks can vary according to the projects current needs and depend on the volunteers own initiative.