Internship in NGO in India

EduCARE India is looking for self-motivated and passionate individuals from around the world who bring knowledge, innovative thinking, and different ideas to enhance our capacity to serve people of concern to the organization while exploring their own talents and leadership quotient. We have been providing cross-cultural experiential learning opportunities for self-motivated youth, both from India and foreign countries, to explore their potential and leadership skills within our organization.

The internship opportunities are offered round the year for fresh graduates and students committed to putting in their time and talent towards addressing key development and humanitarian issues and working on our projects and programs. The program has been structured to be incentivized, ensuring affordability and enriching experiences as well as additional incentives in the form of educational courses and training opportunities for the right individuals.

An intern is an individual who meets the following criteria:

• is at least twenty years of age on the date of application;
• is enrolled in a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral program; or has graduated within the last 2-years from a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral program;
• is a professional of any age, who wishes to gain development sector work experience and skills in order to shift from the corporate sector to the non-profit sector;
• is fluent in at least one of the working languages of the office of assignment;

We are currently offering internship positions in the following areas:

Specialized Domain

• Micro-finance
• Marketing & Sales
• Social Enterprise Management
• Fundraising
• Eco-Tourism
• Geoinformatics
• Sculpting
• Arts & Crafts
• HR
• Media & Communications
• Vocational Training
• Administrative Management

Safety Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)

• Workplace Environment, Health & Safety (EHS)

Environment

• Environmental Conservation
• SWASH Temple
• Waste Management
• Floriculture
• Botanical Garden & Nursery
• Eco-products Design & Development
• Renewable Energy
• Forestry
• Landscape Architecture

Health

• Women Empowerment
• Eldercare
• Public Health
• Social Upliftment

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