Nonprofit
Communications, Documentation & Global Learning Internship - Himalayan India
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Description
This internship is for students interested in development communication, storytelling, documentation, journalism, photography, digital media, education, intercultural learning, social impact communication, and nonprofit outreach.
Interns will help document grassroots initiatives, community stories, field learnings, volunteer experiences, local innovations, and programme impact across EduCARE / CIEEL’s field projects. The role combines writing, field observation, interviews, visual documentation, newsletter development, social media content, case studies, and learning material preparation.
This track is especially suitable for students who want to use communication as a tool for social change, public education, volunteer mobilisation, and international learning.
Possible Assignments
Interns may contribute to:
- Field stories and case studies
- Interviews with volunteers, elders, women’s groups, youth, and community leaders
- Photo documentation and short video storyboarding
- Website, newsletter, blog, and social media content
- Bilingual IEC material and awareness campaigns
- Internship outreach material for Indian and international students
- Documentation of lessons learned from field programmes
Best Suited For
Students of journalism, communication, media studies, liberal arts, international relations, education, development studies, English, design, or social sciences.
Learning Outcomes
Interns will gain practical experience in nonprofit communication, field documentation, social impact storytelling, and intercultural learning in a live grassroots development setting.
Benefits
EduCARE India a registered NGO (1430/2006-05) located in North West India. It was initially formed as a volunteer charitable initiative for marginalized village community groups in 1994 but has through the years transformed itself as a youth and women driven self-sustainable organisation with seva (social entrepreneurship and volunteer action) principles and does not receive any external funding aid or charity contributions.
It has now several following affiliate programs that focus in different fields of work such as education, empowerment, environmental conservation, microfinance/ micro-empowerment and health. These programs and projects often overlap and some interns work under several programs focusing on an integrated sustainable development and community care in rural areas.
- MicroEmpowerED – microfinance and marginalised community development
- Rural Health Care India – health care for rural areas and urban slums
- ConservEN – Environmental conservation and sustainable development
- InfACE Learning – Informal, Alternative and Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning
- Young Women’s IDEA – Women’s Empowerment
All of our projects and programs are run through our ViKAS DEVI facilities. VIKAS in Hindi/Punjabi
means development; and DEVI means goddess or the giver; and, we have created this dual acronym to mean Village Knowledge, Awareness and Sustainable Development Institute. In the future, we hope that these facilities can be run directly by the village communities that we work in, as a platform to help them address some of the social, environmental, educational, and health issues they face in their own communities.
The International Internship Program of EduCARE India is designed to provide selected applicants to contribute in one or several of these critical work areas in various developmental projects in along with a rewarding educational, learning and grass-root level work experience.
While working closely together with other international interns and local team-members and,
volunteers, EduCARE India interns acquire knowledge and skills in specific areas, work on critical assignments and projects, receive exposure to various professional areas and gain first-hand experience working in a non-profit grass-root level community development and social work in India.
Interns will receive:
- Real-world cross-cultural international work experience
- Exposure to Indian culture and living in a developing country
- Grass-root level development work experience and experiential learning
- Course credit (when required)
- Future academic / professional work references
Location
Apply to This Internship
Document field stories, community innovations, volunteer journeys, and social impact initiatives through writing, media, and outreach.
Some preparatory or documentation work may be hybrid/remote, but the strongest learning experience is through in-person field engagement.
This is not a conventional desk internship. It is a field-learning opportunity for students who want to understand how community development actually works on the ground — with its complexity, human relationships, institutional gaps, local leadership, and practical possibilities.
Interns will be encouraged to produce meaningful outputs that support ongoing community initiatives while also building their own portfolio of field experience, research, documentation, mapping, communication, or project design work.
