Volunteer Role
To achieve this integration and to achieve the equality that the community needs you will be involved in helping to empower the Kanjar people and helping them to develop as a community.
- Helping the Kanjars find empowerment, dignity and self- respect by encouraging and strengthening communication within the Kanjar community and with Indian society as a whole.
- Creating and strengthening inter-community relationships between Kanjar and non-Kanjar communities.
- Educating and improving the education of pre-teen children, getting more children enrolled and keeping up attendance.
- Raising awareness about the importance of neglected areas, such as health, hygiene and sanitation, human rights, education and the empowerment of women.
- Getting the Kanjar’s to actively help themselves. This is particularly aimed at women and children who have been forced into prostitution and mistreated, physically, by police.
- Helping, supporting and encouraging the in-country volunteers to continue using their knowledge, skills and expertise to fight for the cause.
What’s Included in the Programme
- Pick up from New Delhi airport and first night at hotel in New Delhi on triple occupancy basis
- All transfers at the start and end of programme
a.Transfer from Delhi airport to hotel on arrival and vice versa on departure
b.Hotel to train station transfer in Delhi and vice versa
c.Train station to Camp transfers and vice versa by public transport
- Transfer from Delhi to Jhalawar by overnight trains in sleeper class, both ways
- All accommodation based on a maximum of 4 people per room
- Materials required for teaching and community based work
- Availability of an English-speaking co-ordinator whilst doing volunteer work and by telephone for handling any emergencies
- 24-hour support number and contact for emergencies
- Two-day orientation
- Television, board games, etc.
- Pre-departure information
- All meals during volunteer days
What’s Not Included in the Programme
- All flights
- Travel Insurance
- Tourist Visa
- E-mail and telephone calls made
- Meals on day of arrival and day of departure
- All items of a personal nature such as gifts, clothes etc
Prices & Durations
India Kanjar Community Outreach - 8 weeks
£999
India Kanjar Community Outreach - 12 weeks
£1,299
