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Public Health, Ageing & Community Care Field Internship - Himalayan India
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Descrição
This internship is for students interested in public health, ageing, social work, gerontology, community care, nutrition, mental health, health communication, and rural health systems.
Interns will work with field teams supporting community-based eldercare and health outreach initiatives under SEHAT SEVA and VARISHTHA Mandal-linked programmes. The focus is on understanding the needs of older persons, vulnerable households, caregivers, women’s groups, and community volunteers, while helping develop practical models for local health support and social care.
This track is especially meaningful for students who want to explore how ageing, loneliness, chronic illness, nutrition, family care, and access to health services interact in rural and semi-rural Himalayan communities.
Possible Assignments
Interns may contribute to:
- Senior citizen needs assessment and household visits
- Documentation of eldercare, nutrition, and social support gaps
- Community health awareness material
- SEHAT SEVA volunteer and caregiver support systems
- Mapping vulnerable elders and local care resources
- Designing simple referral and follow-up formats
- Case studies on ageing, dignity, care, and community support
Best Suited For
Students of public health, social work, gerontology, nursing, psychology, nutrition, community medicine, development studies, or health communication.
Learning Outcomes
Interns will gain practical exposure to community-based health outreach, eldercare systems, social determinants of health, and the design of low-cost care support models in rural India.
Benefícios
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
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Support community-based health outreach, eldercare, nutrition awareness, and social care systems for vulnerable rural households.
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.
