What does group volunteering involve?
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change
In designing our eye-care project, our biggest challenge was screening thousand s of children scattered across village schools to narrow down those who needed medical attention (around 5-10% of the population). This narrowing down was crucial to optimize the time of medical professionals.
It is when faced with a need like this that volunteers play a crucial role in boosting the undertakings of social workers.
A response to the above need came in the form of channeling volunteers from multiple companies to dedicate a day of their weekend to screening the children. This has since resulted in 54000+ children being screened in 6 districts solely through the support of volunteers, thereby identifying children who actually needed eye-care.
Since then we have used the efforts of groups of volunteers to strategically achieve momentum on specific tasks in the projects we undertake.
Volunteers have painted schools, provided remedial learning where there were gaps in school staff and enrolled eligible under-privileged candidates into welfare schemes. Their efforts have been invaluable.
Key Points on Group Volunteering
This is ideal for corporate volunteers, common interest groups and student groups.- We offer group volunteering whenever such a need arises in our projects.
- Group sizes of 10-25 members are optimal.
- Transport logistics of the group has to be borne by the group. Any other on-ground logistical arrangements will be made by us. (though funding support for such arrangements is much appreciated)
- Volunteers will receive certificates on completing the task.
Why do we encourage groups and not individual volunteering?
- Individual volunteering is hard to offer given the nature of our projects. Should you like to volunteer individually we encourage you to try options like LetsTagOn, Youth for Seva etc.
- For students who are interested in internships, again, we have a few collaborations with colleges (and are open to more). But we are sorry to dampen your enthusiasm, in that we cannot offer individual internships.
Every bit of effort that our volunteers have contributed is invaluable to us.
Should you be interested please reach out to us!