Before applying please thoroughly read the requirements and information on the website (www.koshish-milap.org). Please email at:(koshishmilap@yahoo.com)
Name:
Home address:
E-mail:
Qualifications:
Your current job/study:
Project/s of your interest: Education / Health / Knowledge Sharing:
Your time commitment for volunteering (days and hours):
Are you ready to commit to volunteer at least for one year?:
It may please be noted that we are very particular about regularity, honesty and sincerity of work.
Requirements for Volunteering
The volunteer should be able to provide commitment at least for one year. You may volunteer to work on any of the following three projects or help us in fund raising:
Education Project
Formal educational teaching support is provided to the school going (KG to 5th grades) children in Mujmahuda slum. Our approach is summarized below:
- Paying individual attention to all students
- Treating with love and interacting with patience. No corporal punishment
- Developing and using appropriate curriculum and reading materials
- Develop and use teaching aids
- Providing free teaching material to student
- Extracurricular activities and educational tours
- Involvement of parents
- Sponsoring bright students for private schooling as needed
As a volunteer you may help us in teaching, conducting extracurricular activities (art, music, sport, educational tour, etc), developing curriculum/ teaching aids, carrying out survey or any other work related to education.
Time: 8 am to 12 noon, Monday to Saturday
Work place: Mujmahuda Slum, Near Akshar Chowk, Vadodara, India
Contact Person: Dr. Varsha Shah, MA, PhD
Health Project
OPD clinic is run inside Mujmaduda slum by a qualified Family Practitioner. At the clinic the medicines are dispensed, counseling is done for healthy lifestyle and preventive measures.
As a volunteer, you may help doctor in running the clinic, counsel patients, carry out survey.
Time: 3:30 pm to 7:00 pm (which may last longer depending upon patients’ rush), Monday to Saturday
Work place: Mujmahuda Slum, Near Akshar Chowk, Vadodara, India
Contact Person: Dr. Kishor Mistry, MD, PhD
Knowledge Sharing Platform Project
This platform www.novoi.org is intended to serve NGOs, volunteers, interns, donors and professionals interested in social work. It will provide an opportunity to share their experiences, facilitate multiplication of good work, minimize repetition of mistakes or duplication of efforts and strive for collective efforts. The website has databases for NGOs, Funding Sources, Government Schemes and Laws related to NGO work. It also has other sections like NGO Handbook, NGO related events, blogs, e-Magazine, etc. Like Wikipedia, it is free and open for interactive contribution.
You may volunteer to collect information for the databases, manage blogs and, social media, e-Magazine, etc.
Time: 10 am to 6 pm, Monday to Saturday
Work place: 10 Ganga Park, Inside Pashbhai Park, Gotri Road, Near Natubhai Circle, Vadodara, India
Contact Person: Dr. Kishor Mistry, MD, PhD
Volunteering for other than our regular projects:
Volunteers can also contribute to other needs of slum population as shown below:
- Slum houses are congested, on average 5 members live in 1-2 room (typically of 12×12 feet) house. Interior design can be developed for efficient and healthy life, e.g. a) Better aeration of kitchen since many of them are using wood stove, b) Designing the foldable and convertible furniture, c) Better natural lighting and aeration of home, d) Affordable solutions for leaking roof in rainy season, e) Cheaper model for toilet, f) Convenient facility to tie mosquito net inside the congested room.
- Most of the male members are self-employed as driver (Auto Rickshaw, tempo, Cycle Rickshaw, etc), artisan (coloring, masonry, plumbing, electrician, welder, etc), labor job, security, street vendors, etc. The females are employed as housemaid to clean houses and in cooking, You can help them to develop practical and affordable safety measures, e.g. a) Efficient Lari or Cycle Rickshaw, b) Efficient Sweeping, mopping and cooking to prevent development of early disabling knee arthritis or low back pain, c) Developing affordable safety measures related to their occupation e.g. chemicals exposure in coloring, heavy weight lifting by males and females in construction, carpentry, electrical, welding, etc.
- Counseling for common behavioral issues: a) Irregularity in school or job, b) Home violence, (verbal and physical) mainly by alcoholic husband to wife and children, etc, c) Alcohol and tobacco chewing addictions, d) Better economic management e.g. purchasing grocery in bulk instead for daily use, regularly cooking at home, reducing excessive expenses in social customs, e) Blind faiths in Bhuva (local healers) for health issues, f) Eating of junk food, e.g. Pani-Puri, bakery items, Chinese, Samosa, Bhungara, Wafers, etc. Provide alternate healthy diet. g) Limit TV watching by students and teach them to watch quality/ educational programs, h) Counsel for preventive health measures, e.g. regularity in eating and sleeping, wearing Champal, brushing teeth two times a day, preventing early marriage especially in females, using mosquito nets, menstrual hygiene, etc.
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