Reading activity during Daan Utsav 2016 | Bengaluru

To the child, the activity is not just to stimulate the habit of reading but also to inculcate the value of giving. To the volunteer the activity is meant to be an eye-opener to the disparities in the education system in India. Go to few Bhumi centres and read a story for kids and develop a habituate of reading to the kids and also increase their vocabulary.

Date: October 8th

Place: Multiple locations

Time: 9:00am

Daan Utsav 2016

Activities Format: Name | Date | Place | Link

NATIONAL

  • Audio book recording | Oct 2 to 8 | Your own home or office | Details here
  • Blood Donation pledge | Oct 5 | Your own home or office | Details here

BANGALORE

  • Swatch bharath | Oct 2 | Majestic bus terminus | Details here
  • Seva sandwich | Oct 8 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Reading activity | Oct 8 | Multiple locations | Details here

CHANDIGARH

  • Cleanliness drive | Oct 2 | Gov.Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32 Chandigarh, | Details here
  • Reading Activity | Oct 4 | Punjab Engineering College, Sector 12, Chandigarh | Details here
  • Tree plantation | Oct 7 | Senior secondary school, Phase 3B1, Mohali | Details here
  • Sewa sandwich | Oct 8 | Gurudwara sahib (tentative) | Details here

CHENNAI

  • Clean up after dark | Oct 1 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Beach clean up | Oct 2 | Labour statue to Akkarai | Details here
  • Traffic awareness campaign |  Oct 2 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Audio book recording | Oct 2 to 8 | Home or office | Details here 
  • MURAil (Railway station beautification) | Oct 2 to 8 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Volunteer for  NGOs | Oct 2 to 8 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Scribe | Oct 3 | Presidency College, Beach Road | Details here
  • Magic collar | Oct 5 | Soon to be fixed | Details here 
  • Tree plantation | Oct 6 & 8 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Puppy bath & shelter cleaning | Oct 8 | Blue cross of India, Velachery | Details here

DELHI

  • Cleanliness drive | Oct 2 | Rajendra Ashram | Details here
  • Tree plantation | Oct 6 | Sector 6 Park, Near Sector 15 Metro, Station Noida | Details here
  • Blood donation camp | Oct 7 | Tower B1, Spaze IT Park, Sector 49, Sohna road, Gurgaon | Details here
  • Paper bag | Oct 8 | Rajendra Asharam, Pandav Nagar, Near Akshardham, Metro Station Delhi | Details here

INDORE

  • Swacch Bharat | Oct 2 | Nehru park, near regal square | Details here
  • Animal feeding & Magic Collar | Oct 4 | Nehru park | Details here
  • Traffic Awareness | Oct 6 | Report at MTH compound | Details here
  • A day at old age home | Oct 7 | EVENT CANCELLED | Details here
  • Seva Sandwich | Oct 8 | Soon to be updated | Details here

JAIPUR

  • Swach Bharat | Oct 2 | Jln Marg | Details here 
  • Tree plantation | Oct 2 | Shipra path and Madhyam Marg in Mansarovar | Details here
  • Reading story | Oct 8 |  Multiple locations | Details here
  • Seva sandwich | Oct 8 | Multiple locations | Details here

KOLKATA

MUMBAI

PUNE

  • Food & clothes donation | Oct 2 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Pedestrian day | Oct 2 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Cleanliness drive | Oct 2 | Swargate bus stand | Details here
  • Traffic control | Oct 2 | Dagdusheth Temple | Details here 
  • No smoking & spitting campaign | Oct 2 | Deccan, FclC road, JM road, Apte road | Details here
  • Mehendi /Tattoo stall & Social awareness | Oct 2 | MG road | Details here
  • Seva sandwich | Oct 8 | S.P college Tilak road | Details here
  • Food donation drive | Oct 8 | Multiple locations | Details here
  • Story telling session | Oct 8 | Multiple locations | Details here

Urgent Volunteer opportunities at AID India | Chennai

1) In Eureka SuperKidz partnership team, Aid India needs volunteers to evaluate the English papers (the children performance evaluation sheets). There are about 3000 papers to be evaluated. Approximately 50 man hours is needed .You can also do a part of the same (say 100 – 200 papers). You can pick the papers at office and do it from your home.

Date: 17th August till 22nd August.
Place: Aid India Office – No: 45, Pycrofts Road First Street, Royapettah, Chennai – 600014
Contact person:  Shankar 8939820467.

2) In Eureka SuperKidz direct implementation team, Aid India needs volunteers to consolidate the evaluated data sheet. There are about 4000 papers to be consolidated across 20 blocks. Need approximately 20 volunteers who can consolidate one block each. Volunteers can pick the papers at office and do it from your home.

Date: 17th August till 22nd August
Place: Aid India Office – No: 45, Pycrofts Road First Street, Royapettah, Chennai – 600014
Contact person:  Srini – 8939820424  or Malay – 90032 75695.

3) Aid India need 20 volunteers who can travel to different blocks to able to track and check the functioning of randomly choosen Eureka SuperKidz center’s basic infrastructure and class quality audit work. College students can also pitch in. This work would require you to travel in the afternoon / one day (in case of far away blocks).

Date: Any day except for sundays
Place: Aid India Office – No: 45, Pycrofts Road First Street, Royapettah, Chennai – 600014
Contact person: Selva [email protected] / whatsapp 9790951652.

Dream Madras – 24th August 2016 | Chennai

United Way of Chennai (UWC)  is dedicated to improving lives in Tamil Nadu by identifying and addressing the long term needs of communities by promoting and encouraging voluntary charitable service and volunteerism.

Dream Madras is a program of United Way Chennai started in the year 2012 and is conducted in any one of the days during the Madras Week Celebrations. Each year around 130 private and government schools participate thematically. This year the theme will be making chennai a “smart city”. An exhibition will take place in the morning and cultural towards early afternoon for which prizes are distributed.

Volunteers are required to help organise this event. T-Shirts, food and certificates will be provided for those participating in this event.

Date24th August 2016

Time: 7:00am to 5:00pm

Venue: Valluvar Kottam, Chennai

Audio book recording Independence special drive | Chandigarh

Light up the flame of imagination in the darkness of the sightless!
Volunteer to record yourself reading a course book that the visually impaired students can use to listen and widen their imagination.
We at Bhumi Chandigarh are organizing an event for the people with special needs. Spare an hour and help us record. Volunteers have to choose slots of 1 hour each, any time, per their convenience.

DatesAug 6th – Aug 13th (Not available on sunday, 7th Aug)

Venue: Cheema Trust, House no. 64, Sec-9A Chandigarh-160009.
Time slots8:30 am to 4:30pm
(1hour per slot) , also only two person per slot, for example 8:30am to 9:30am only two people can record. Volunteers can share their preferred time, and have to be present there at the time they chose

Volunteers for Dhyan Foundation | Chennai

Dhyan Foundation is an organisation teaching “YOG with a Spiritual Dimension”, sans commerce, under the guidance of YOGI ASHWINIJI. One of their projects include educating the underprivileged children at Anand Vidyalayas (AV), which are spread across India.

This requirement is for teaching volunteers (all subjects) at the AV at ICF Signal, near Anna Nagar in Chennai.
Group includes of 10 – 15 students, from classes 2-9.
Timings: 5 PM – 7 PM (can be made flexible, based on volunteer’s availability) – three to five days a week
Syllabus: aligned to 
TN State board and Matriculation
For queries, please contact 8939458977 and 9941296302

Volunteers for AID India | Chennai

AID India needs volunteers who can give us two Saturdays (on June 25, 2016 and July 2, 2016) to train its Eureka tutors in English content. These tutors take classes for children in villages in Tamil Nadu.

AID India’s resource team will train the volunteers in Chennai on June 25, 2016 at AID India’s office from 10 AM to 3 PM. Lunch will be provided.

The volunteers will be required to travel to nearby districts on July 2, 2016 to train the tutors. It will be a day’s trip and AID India will reimburse the travel costs.

For queries, please contact 9790951652 / [email protected]

Volunteer for Education Survey | Chennai

Avanti Fellows is a pan India education based NGO working towards providing a platform for highly motivated student from the underprivileged section of the society to help in realizing their dream of scoring good marks and getting into colleges. We have been working in the education field for the past 4 years. Previously we have worked with IX and X standard students in Corporation schools.

Currently we are in the process of teaching (math and science) curriculum and mentoring behavioral management for about 1,500 students of IX over 15 schools of Chennai Corporation School. Avanti Fellow is looking for 30 volunteer surveyors for a period of one month to carry out its Baseline survey in about 24 Chennai Corporation schools.

The volunteers who are interested must be available from June 22, 2016 to July 23, 2016

The Volunteers will be paid a stipend of Rs 350 per day.

Skills – Able to speak read and understand Tamil and English.
Qualifications – Any college students or graduates.

For any queries, please contact: Benjamine Charles – 988420559

If you are interested to volunteer, please sign up below:

Volunteers for Katha on Ratha | Chennai

“Katha on Ratha”, a “read along with children” program to instill the passion and confidence of reading and learning for young children, requires full-time fellows and volunteers to play the role of reading coaches who will be assigned to a school or cluster of schools (about 5) based on their availability and the school availability.

Graduates who are passionate in volunteering their time and inspired for the cause of instilling the passion of reading and learning among young children. Involves travelling to a select school on the same day of the week (mostly Saturday) in and around Chennai to engage with children in read along sessions; will be trained on story telling techniques to make the classroom sessions more engaging.

Reading Coach (fellow/ volunteer) needs to prepare and deliver the following as part of each Read along session:
· Reads Aloud a bilingual book (or set of two books) in English and Tamil in an engaging way using appropriate Role play/ story telling techniques
· Conduct activities to improve phonemic and phonics awareness, language fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.

Must have:
a. Strong passion to make good Education accessible for all children and sharing knowledge
b. Ready to work in challenging situation
c. Very strong English and Tamil communication skills
d. Participated in Extra- curricular activities with active Participation in any one of the following : Role play/ Story telling/ Puppet/Quiz/ Elocution
e. Passionate in Reading books and can be a role model for children
f.Rooted in strong value system

Volunteer to add voice to multimedia content

Classle is into the education domain for many years, and as part of its community project, requires volunteers to add voice to its multimedia content.

The live books which Classle creates in only embedding voice over to the content of the book; this would give the experience of reading the book by listening to the video, and also improve the listening capability, and concentration of the children.
The  responsibilities of the volunteers is to record the voice for the content of the book in a way that the students can follow each and every slide when they were listening to the video; thus, the pitch of the voice should be in constant speed.

If you’re interested to be a voice volunteer, please sign up, and the concerned from Classle will get in touch with you.