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FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING |SMILE MLTV08| 2023-05-10 - 2023-12-31| TEEN/EDU/KIDS/CUL  Age: 16-99

Helping Children between 8-14  years old ( mostly from destitute families) of India to get basic education,vocational and hygienic training etc. Daily more than 200+ families receives support at our different centres around.

India having uncountable numbers of street and slum dwellers . There are thousands of poor refugees coming every year from nearby countries and from different small towns and villages to the big cities and most of these families are living in a very poorly condition at slums or on street corners. Often these families bring their children to help them in begging ,household work ,rag picking activities, even some girls been forcibly thrown to the dark life of prostitution. Volunteers have chance to teach their own mother tongue to these kids.

Work & Activities :- Most important target of the project is to bring smile among these children and provide confidence .Volunteer would use different way of informal education technique to present a unique and attractive way of education programs for these kids .Most of these kids speaks local Bengali /Hindi language but they are very smart and intelligent.so teaching them with the support of local coordinator would not be so difficult ,just little bit of patience and involvement can solve this problem easily. All volunteers would go through orientation on arrival and two local language session during this camp. On every afternoon (after lunch)  volunteers would prepare the lesson plan for kids.  Volunteers would also help local coordinator in other activities like giving shower food distribution, organising drama,story telling and entertainment games for the children.whole action would be run under the supervision of very experienced local project coordinator.

Accommodation and food:  Accommodation: Dormitory basis in  host family  as per available on arrival ( on cot with mattress/on floor with mattress,  2--4 volunteers in one  room) shared accommodation (normally male & female separate room). You will get accommodation till 6 pm on the last day of your camp.We are unable to provide you any accommodation before or after these dates. Please arrange your own accommodation in case of early arrival or late departure .You are requested to meet our representative at the meeting place on exact time given above. If you arrive early then you can have your stay in any of the different hotels available nearby Airport, within 2 -3 km .on the road popularly called as V.I.P road. You are requested to take any cab to check in any of these hotels. If you arrive at earlier night then you are requested to stay inside the airport terminal and meet at the next morning with our representative at 12 noon.

Food: You will get 3 times local home made food  from host family as per available on arrival.  Please do not expect any kind of special dishes (veg/non veg) or cold drinks or special living room or air conditioned room during your term. You are requested to get ready for a simple and challenging life.

 

Location:  Madhyamgram

Location and Lesiure:  INDIA is an amazing country with diverse  culture and tradition .Interesting people ! Explore the country with exciting diversity .Kolkata ,the city of joy was known before as Calcutta since the colonial time. This ancient city was used to be the capital of British colonial period. Madhyamgram is a suburb with full of heart . All modern amenities are available in the suburb.Local people are basically belongs to the middle ,lower middle and poor class . City Kolkata is known for its busy traffic ,huge population ,warm weather and poverty around the street corners! It is a great place to visit for every tourist coming to India.  Kolkata( itself is a great tourist place with its historical value ) is well connected with many famous and attractive tourist places .

 

Requirements:.  Should have Covid 19 vaccination. E-Tourist visa is easy and quick  as long as you are a short term visitor and  purpose of visit  is Tourism. If you wish to volunteer for longterm then you should Apply for Employment Visa for Volunteering purpose in  registered NGO like SMILE Society. You are requested to bring required docs like passport copies, visa copies, 2 copies of your recent photos etc. which you requested to submit on your arrival to our representative.

Meeting point: Airport pickup (volunteers are requested to meet our rep at the meeting point on time .Meeting details would be given through this info sheet.

Nearest Rail Station: Madhyamgram

Language:  English

Extra Fee: 400 US/month