Preface:

Volunteering, internships and engagement of employees will be offered at Unnati ISEC’s tribal field area in Maharashtra – specifically in the Melghat region (Akola district) and Shahapur block (Thane district).

Previous engagements:

• In 2017, Vodafone employees from Mumbai office conducted language fares and library sessions with the children from primary grades in the 3 schools of Mumbai. Please find some photographs here:

  

  

• In 2020 Feb, 4 students from Pillai Institute of management, Panvel did their internship with Unnati ISEC where they conducted library sessions with the children from primary grades in the school based at Bhandup, Mumbai. Please find some photographs here:

  

  

  

  

• Appeal letter to management, D.Ed. B.Ed.colleges for internships - LINK

Opportunities with Unnati ISEC for volunteering, internships and employee engagement:

Volunteering at Unnati ISEC empowers people to bring in a change in the lives of under-served children and also in turn makes an impact in their own lives by seeing the smiles they manage to draw across the faces of these children. We have some opportunities if you are interested in volunteering with us and contributing your time by participating in our programs.

Volunteering locations:

• Shahapur block, Thane district
• Akola district, Vidarbha region, Maharashtra
• Home based

What will the volunteer achieve?

• Orientation to a different culture, living and values
• Understand different ‘childhoods’
• Understand ‘village’
• Joy and satisfaction from dealing with different kinds of people
• Challenges to our own biases and prejudices
• Understand the ‘Social sector’, its non-profit nature and its contribution to the development of humanity
• Ample reflection opportunities for ‘looking inside and outside’
• Glimpses of educational pedagogy

Volunteering with:

• Children, youths, adults from tribal villages
• Unnati ISEC as an organization

FW / volunteering Activities:

• With Children, youths, adults from tribal villages
  • with children from primary and secondary grades
    • Mathematics session using play-way methods
    • Art sessions
    • Language games, language fares
    • Science games
    • Organize one day picnics and educational excursions for a group of children
    • Preparing Teaching material which will be used in site classes e.g. puppets, charts, flash cards, innovative teaching tools, etc.
  • With youths from the tribal villages
    • Financial education
    • Understand your body and emotions
    • Sports competition/ camps
    • Art sessions
    • Sports sessions
  • In the village
    • Household survey
    • Survey of education status
    • Survey of livelihood status
  • With the Adults
    • Financial Education
    • Film screening and discussion
    • Games sessions
  • (A short training will be provided to the volunteers on the sessions to be conducted, Do’s and Don’ts, orientation of tribal culture)
• For Unnati ISEC’s library
  • Purchasing / collecting books for the library
  • Organization of the library and developing technology helping us in keeping record and
  • Analysis of
    • Lending and borrowing of books by the children and others
    • Books read most by the children
    • Organising book fairs/events in villages and schools.
    • periodic stocktaking of books etc.
• Unnati ISEC as an organization
  • Helping the organisation strengthening its social media platforms
  • Helping with documentation and office management
  • Organising fundraising activities at own college or office – Help in fundraising activities by manning DSS stalls at exhibitions in companies, malls, etc
  • Entering data into excel or software fields, from manual reports, Preparing reports, planning events etc
  • Translating reports and information from Marathi to English or from English to Marathi
  • Taking photos of various events/ activities and writing articles for blogs/ newsletter
  • Designing newsletters, e-mailers, posters, and other promotional material.

Please inform us about your interest in volunteering by filling out the below form and send it to unnati.isec@gmail.com with a subject – “Interested in volunteering”

• Email
• Your Full Name
• Contact Number
• Location
• Languages Known
• Education Qualifications
• Profession
• Preferred Location(s) for Volunteering – Home based / Shahapur / Akot
• Frequency of Volunteering: Daily / Few days a week / Few days a month / Only Events / Any other preference

Preferred days, hours and time slot to volunteering will be mutually decided.

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Arrangements of lodging and food:

Unnati ISEC will make the homely arrangements available in the village, the cost of which will be borne by the volunteers.

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What will the volunteer / intern / employee achieve?

• Orientation to a different culture, living and values
• Understand different ‘childhoods’
• Understand ‘village’
• Joy and satisfaction from dealing with different kinds of people
• Challenge to our own biases and prejudices
• Understand the ‘Social sector’, its non-profit nature and its contribution to the development of humanity
• Ample reflection opportunities for ‘looking inside and outside’
• Glimpses of educational pedagogy

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Costs and expenses:

The costs include:

• Lodging and food charges (Approx. Rs.300/- to Rs. 500/-) per day. Simple but very clean accommodation in a village on sharing basis with basic amenities, mainly vegetarian food, occasionally non-vegetarian food)
• Travel from home to the field and back (Approx. Rs 1200/- to 3500/- per trip) depending upon the class of the railway coach. Travel is mainly by train. Its an overnight journey from Mumbai and Pune.
• Travel during the field for conducting sessions (Rs. 100/ - per day including petrol and vehicle charges)