VOLUNTEER

Individual Volunteer Opportunities &Program

Our many volunteers for NGO are from Bangalore, where our organization is based. These Individual volunteers can be students, mothers, retirees, and employees, especially from the IT industry. While the core programs are delivered by full time employees of Lovedale; there is ample opportunity to volunteer your time in specific projects that will aid teachers in school as well as provide support to the administrative staff in office. We depend on Individual volunteer to provide exposure to the world for the Lovedale children. This is the case for both Indian and International volunteers. The diversity of the volunteers in terms of culture, race, age, education and occupation provide the children with invaluable life experiences. They really do become children of the world. Most importantly volunteers provide our children with positive role models to aspire, that they lack so severely because of the backgrounds they come from.Over the past two years we have had volunteers coming from all parts of the world – USA, Canada, UK, Spain, France, Netherlands, Australia and Japan.

Many volunteers are from Bangalore, where our organization is based. These Individual volunteer can be students, mothers, retirees and employees especially from the IT industry.

To experience urban India at the grassroots, there is nothing like Individual Volunteer Opportunities & Program with Lovedale Foundation. We work with 8 slum communities and 350 of the poorest of the poor children in Bangalore; India’s most modern city, where more than 1.5 million people live in over 800 slum pockets. We have a “Volunteering Section” that coordinates all efforts of the volunteers. Our endeavour is to make your experience as meaningful to you as possible and at the same time, beneficial to our children.

Some of the many activities that Individual Volunteer Opportunities & Program can be involved in:

  • Sports
    • Cricket match / teach them techniques
    • Football match / teach them techniques
    • Outdoor games
  • Outside the Campus (During Holidays, weekends)
    • Bannerghatta National Park
    • An outing to a park
    • Planetarium
    • Science Museum
    • Traffic Park
    • Railway station, Post office, bank, airport
    • Visit to Yahoo!
    • Trip to another city by bus / train
    • Visit to Bangalore / Hesarghatta Diary
    • A short trek
  • Within the Campus (Monday to Saturday) Teaching Songs, Magic Tricks Film Show
    • Group games
    • Some songs / from the cassettes
    • Solo/Group Dance
    • Theatre
    • Computers
    • Cookery
    • Vocational workshops – candle making, cards, paper bags, etc
  • Within the classroom (Monday to Saturday)
    • Lessons with children individually
    • Reading
    • Spelling bee
    • Story telling
    • Drawing and colouring based on a theme
    • Writing
    • Public Speaking
    • Quiz
    • Show currencies of different countries
    • Hobbies and collections
    • Craft
    • Pictionary
    • Others
  • Fundraising
    • Helping in Administration
    • Sponsorship
    • Communication materials
    • Construction and infrastructure support
    • Online publications
    • Social media awareness

In case you have any specific skills, which would help the children / organization, please do let us know and we would be happy to learn from you.We would require one reference contact from your hometown before your application submission. It could be from your current employer, or your university, or local police station. This is for submitting to our Government departments here in India as a mandate.

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