Placement: Primary School in Shillong (North East India)

About the Placement

Teach English and core subjects to poor children and orphans in the beautiful hilly town of Shillong, North East India.

Little Prakash and his friends in Shillong need help! In a poor tribal area of Shillong, a primary school with an attached orphanage housing 10 children is being run by Didi Ananda Kalyanbrata, a yoga nun. The school currently has 120 children, some of whom study free as their parents are unable to pay even minimal fees. All the children learn meditation and yoga.

Would you like to spend some time with us, teaching your skills to our schoolchildren? Would you like to help care for the youngest orphans, who express their creativity through naughtiness the minute no one is looking? We also need help with fundraising to build better classrooms for our children?

Now we have only a small school. In the future we want to develop our education

programmes we want to also run a high school, start village schools in the tribal

villages around the town, increase the size of our orphanage and hostel to give more destitute and rural children from outlying areas the chance to study.

If you would like to come and share your skills with us for a week, a month or 6 months, we will welcome you into our small family, teach you about our culture and give you a rich experience of the Indian way of life. If you wish, we will teach you yoga too!

Cost: Although we ask you for only $50 per month for food and accommodation, we do require you to help us by fundraising at least $300 for the development of the school before you come.

Role of Volunteer

To teach English, maths, computer, science, history, geography or any other academic or non-academic skills you have to the children. To train the teachers to plan and teach creative lessons. To help with after school homework.

To play games with or organize activities for the children during recreation time, teach them about your life and share theirs. To help us find ways to fundraise a better building for our school.

Travel Information

None given.

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