Project No.: RC-MTV-ENV-4/16: ENV/Climate January to December 2016

Age: 18+

Location: Patta-Bandh (Solan)

Placement: Placement is offered for 3 to 6 months.

Joining dates: Open

Background:This is a mountain area where more than 70% population lives in rural areas and agriculture is the main stay of their survival. Off late, due to deforestation and land degradation, population pressure, unrestricted grazing by animals and indifferent attitude of people towards their environmental sanitation, the people feel the pinch of global warming and climate change. Some recognize the changes and consequences but the majority fail to understand and correlate it to their life style. Since they still stick to the traditions and follow the age old farming practices their income levels are going down.

Changes in climatic conditions affect their farming and living conditions adversely. The green cover in mountains maintains the environmental balance and controls the climate in the whole country. The resources are sufficient but the people, due to lack of education and awareness, fail to conserve and preserve these resources.

This project is designed to work on these issues and volunteers are required to work with RUCHI team and local people to address some of them.

Work: Volunteers will be involved in environmental education in the same area and work with youth workers and community leaders to initiate actions aiming at environmental sanitation, improve climatic changes and restrict global warming. Basically that will include education and awareness creation using various tools but any physical action leading to check Global warming, climate change, depletion of natural resources will be highly appreciated.

Accommodation: This will be basic, simple and shared with common toilets. They will be staying in RUCHI complex accommodation with basic amenities. We shall provide mattresses but the volunteers are required to bring their own bed sheets, sleeping bags and personal toiletries.

Food:Food offered will be simple authentic Indian vegetarian and freshly cooked. Three meals a day will be served. Assistance while cooking is desired of volunteers. Volunteers are free to cook meals of their country choice on every Sunday.

Project No.: RC-MTV-EDU-5/16: Teaching Children March to December 2016

No. of Vols.: 2

Age: 21+

Location: Bogdhar village (Rajgarh)

Placement: Placement is offered for 3-6 months.

Joining dates : Volunteers can join from any Monday during the project cycle.

Background:In the interior rural areas, education of children in expensive private schools is unaffordable by local communities. Consequently, they send their children to government schools. However, the attitudes of teachers there is a little indifferent and not very pro-active. To meet people’s demand for better education some committed teachers have started less expensive private schools in rural areas. Bogdhar village has one such school. The school enrolls children from economically poor families from the rural areas. The focus of education here is on social aspects.

Work: The two volunteers will be involved in teaching English to the children in the age group 6-11 in a small village based school. The school wants the volunteers to add value to the teaching and improve on the pronunciation and grammar. The idea is to make education interesting and fruitful to them and prepare and encourage them to improve on their English for a better future.

During free time, volunteers’ involvement in health and sanitation education in the same area will be appreciated. They can work with youth workers and community leaders to develop health educational activities for their well being.

Accommodation: This will be simple and shared in the school/village with common toilets. Volunteers are advised to bring their own bed sheet and sleeping bags for hygienic reasons.

Food:Food offered will be simple authentic Indian vegetarian and freshly cooked. Three meals a day will be served. Assistance while cooking is desired of volunteers. Volunteers are free to cook meals of their country choice on every Sunday.

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