GIS, Data & Mountain Risk Mapping Internship - Himalayan India

This internship is designed for students interested in GIS, geography, remote sensing, data science, mapping, environmental risk, disaster preparedness, and rural planning.

Interns will support the development of map-based and data-supported tools for community resilience, public health outreach, environmental management, and disaster preparedness in the Himalayan region. The work may include mapping vulnerable settlements, local resources, trekking routes, health access points, emergency response assets, water sources, landslide-prone areas, and other community-level risk indicators.

This track is ideal for students who want to apply technical skills to real field problems, especially in mountain communities where terrain, access, climate, and infrastructure challenges deeply affect safety and development.

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