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Program Type: Volunteer/Language School
Organization: VSFP-India (Voluntary Service For Peace)
Description: VOLUNTARY SERVICE FOR PEACE (VSFP) is an international voluntary youth organization, working for the global peace through voluntary service and youth mobility in India and in Sri Lanka. VSFP has support and networking with international and national organizations to promote cross-cultural voluntary social camps and to create global peace by various activities.
VSFP is a non-profitable, non-religious and non-political organization with independent public funding. We have partners in local and international levels to cooperate with us in the voluntary camps within India and in Sri Lanka. We create positive atmosphere with local communities, under privileged children, Youth, Tribal and Rural people to have direct contact with volunteers and youth from different countries to get exposures about other cultures and values systems.
Highlights: VSFP believes in reciprocal learning through the work made during their stay. We do not support projects in which volunteers return to their home countries with empty mind and heart after their voluntary services in the projects and in the community.
The volunteers will learn about Indian culture, customs, values, beliefs, life style, day to day life, Indian social institution like marriage, family, caste systems, Indian fine arts, Indian traditional music, and child and women situation in India, Yoga and Ayurveda and rural structures. If you have knowledge about all of the above, your service will be better for the community. Service without learning is just like a charity work. Volunteers are not here to do charity work but they are here to construct the peaceful community in our current world. We believe in 50% work and 50% learning.
We are part of a network of like-minded social organizations that are striving to make peace in the world by encouraging young people to do volunteer service. VSFP sponsors children’s studies in the Salem Project with the volunteer’s work and contribution fee.
Requirements and Qualifications: No specific qualification required for the volunteers
Experience: VSFP-India will accept all the volunteers regardless of experience.
Languages: English
Volunteer Type:
1.Volunteers for Teaching English
2.Volunteers for Eco-Travel
3.Volunteers for Orphan children
4.Volunteers for slum development and kids
5.Volunteers for Tsunami rehabilitation
6.Volunteers for Street and working children
7.Volunteers for Gender equality and Female infanticide
8.Volunteers for Family Knit and Village development
9.Volunteers for Tribal kids and culture
10.Volunteers for South India Festivals
11.Volunteers for Tamil culture and festivals
Age: At least 18
Restrictions: Using drugs and alcohol is totally prohibited in the project. Please come with more love and care for the children.
Pay/Compensation: No payment will be made and Volunteers will be taken to local cultural places and help them to organize cultural programes.
Type of work/duties:
- Teach in the school and by night give tutoring
- Give health and moral awareness meetings by using film show, and posters
- Provide psychological counseling with the help of local social worker to bring them out of the social pressure and the inferiority complex.
- Clean the orphanage area and school campus by the help of local helpers and the staff
- Paint and draw Educational and Social pictures in the class rooms to motivate the children
- Help in the orphanage administration by involving in the planning meeting, daily meeting and the evaluation meeting
- Teach computer for the senior children
- Take children to Yercuad hills for one day picnic
- Conduct sports and talent competitions for both girls and boys.
- Visit the nearby villages and make mass awareness campaigns on health, money saving for future and women development.
- Making cultural visit in near by temples, cultural program
- Arranging cross cultural program and do country presentation
- Attending local and Hindu and Indian marriages
- Make mass awareness campaigns in the villages to “SAVE THE GIRL CHILD”
- Conduct house visits after new babies born
- Teach English in the public schools and the moral lesions on Girl child protection
- Painting in the public places and walls about the importance of lives of girl baby
- Conduct a talent and painting competition in the school about GENDER EQUALITY by the help of local organization and schools.
- Meeting with the village women in the evening to have cultural conferences and make them to understand about GENDER EQUALITY and Girl baby.
- Conducting Youth rally to give awareness to the public to save the girl child.
Cost: Starting at 150 Euros.
Cost Included:
- Meals
- Accommodation
- Local travel
- Air port pick up and drop off
- Local language orientation
- Project orientation
- Project materials
- Special classes for the volunteers about Indian culture, faiths, Indian marriages, local festivals, caste systems, cultural visit, organising cultural programs, country presentation.
Cost not included:
- Insurance
- Personal Expenses
Living Specifications: The volunteers will get three times meals with south Indian dishes and it will be home made food. The volunteers will be staying in the home stay or in the public lodges.
Service provider: VSFP-India will host all the volunteers in our different projects as per the above lists and we have different activities for each project with our 25 local partners.
OBJECTIVES OF VSFP-India:
(a) To promote global understanding & international co-operation through volunteer, professional &cultural training programs
(b) To facilitate the training of young people/ student s/social workers/ professionals in international, inter cultural and ecumenical education, as a means of becoming sensitive to social and economical realities of the world.
(c) To promote principles of equality to all people and nations with regard to cultures, races, caste, sex etc by conducting international and national work camp by the volunteers.
(d) To help participants to become aware of the issues and problems existing in the local, international community to bring peace and justice to all humanity by various group and community activities.
(e) To promote and support social and community development project for sustainable development and to bring peace through international volunteers work camp.
(f) To promote cultural tours and eco-friendly programs to protect the cultural heritage of India and in Sri Lanka by eco tourism and eco friendly activities.
(g) To establish a volunteer centre and make provisions for volunteer training programs to update our volunteers about Indian culture, social structure and Hindu festivals.
(h) To initiate development work for the progress of women, under privileged children and youth to promote global peace and Youth integrity.
(i) To initiate work for the progress of physically, mentally, economically and socially disadvantaged persons and untouchable people by various community development projects with the help of the volunteers.
(j) To co-operate and networking with similar like-minded organizations around the world to promote the global peace by sharing the Volunteers for the good cause.
(k) To sent Indian and Sri Lankan volunteers to other countries for cross-cultural works to change the worldview of the youth.
VSFP-India’s Priorities:
- Volunteer’s Safety
- Volunteer’s Service
- Volunteer’s Satisfaction
- Volunteer’s learning
- Volunteer’s experiences
- Volunteer’s feed back
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