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Volunteering With Slum Children in Chennai

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Help motivate children from the slums to enter full time education.

For those of you who have seen Slumdog Millionaire, it is not difficult to visualise that in India many young children opt out of education in favour of a life on the streets or working as child labourers.

Volunteer during your gap year with this organisation in Chennai that runs transit schools to motivate these young people back into mainstream education. Since children cannot make it to school, they take the school to the children in the form of transit schools.

This organisation focuses on integrated community development, running several programmes in youth development, vocational training, income generation and health care initiatives. Since the atmosphere in any slum is the least conducive to any form of serious study there is a high numbers of children dropping out of schools. The project has opened centres where school-going children from the neighbourhood gather each evening.

Gap Project : Help Slum Children Into Education

Gap Project : Help Slum Children Into Education

Your role: As a gap year volunteer you would be placed in one or more of these schools. This could involve moving around the city of Chennai holding classes in different locations. You would be required to teach conversational English and other informal activities (sports, games, arts and crafts etc.).

Helping with teaching is vital to an organisation that depends on volunteers but more importantly your enthusiasm and ability to make learning fun will be particularly welcomed. You'll be able to use all your skills and knowledge, whether it's in sports, arts, crafts, games, music to help this project's children stay motivated to learn and work to improve their lives.

Gap Project : Help Slum Children Into Education

Use your imagination to inspire theirs!

What you Gain: This is a wonderful gap year voluntary project where your imagination and enthusiasm will make a real difference to the lives of these young children. See these young children grow in knowledge and determination, working their way to a better future.