Baddi is an industrial area. Economically poor people migrated to the area in search of jobs and established their temporary settlements. These settlements are devoid of even basic amenities and hence called “slums”. Industries and increased human population is pressurizing the already depleting natural resources and causing a serious environmental, health & sanitation problem.
Work:
This project aims to protect our environment using creative education. Local community and environment are inter-related and depend on each other for survival. Therefore education of local community towards social and economic benefit of environment is vital for their coexistence. Based in a rural environment, volunteers will familiarize themselves with local environment and life. They shall be visiting local schools, SHG’s, local community gathering and even organise an environmental workshop to disseminate environmental awareness and good practices. Working closely with local youth, the following tasks shall be undertaken:1.Using creative art as a medium to disseminate environmental awareness. 2.Working with eco clubs in local schools by assisting and coordinating their activities. 3.Mobilising youth towards environmental protection. 4.Educate people on environmental concerns like Global warming, climate change, depletion of natural resources, etc. We believe, innovation is key to success therefore volunteers with prior experience in related work are welcome to bring in new ideas.
Accommodation:
Accommodation is on sharing basis with common toilets and bath.
Food:
Food offered will be simple authentic Indian vegetarian and freshly cooked. Three meals a day will be served/provided. Assistance while cooking is desired of volunteers. Volunteers are free to cook meals of their country choice on every Sunday.
PARTICIPATION FEE:
The participation fees are as follows:a. For one/first month stay - Euro 350 b. For each additional month - Euro 300
Our project area of Himachal Pradesh has breathtaking views. Since ages, the mountain people depend on natural spring to meet their water requirements. The area has abundant of fresh water natural springs. These resources are under tremendous pressure due to environmental degradation, human negligence paired with his rapid thirst for urbanisation.
RUCHI has worked towards protection and development of these fresh water spring for more than 10 years, but still a lot has to be done.
Work:
Volunteers under this project will be based in rural setting and involved in creating awareness regarding environmental importance of fresh water springs among local community and youth. They are also expected to develop methodology to protect and replenish these fresh water springs. Working closely with local youth following tasks shall be undertaken by volunteers.
1.Creating a data base of these fresh water springs within area. 2.Evaluating their present conditions and collecting water samples for testing. 3.Developing and implementing a recharge plan using traditional methods and using local resources. Volunteers with prior experience in following field are most welcome to apply and bring in new ideas.
Accommodation:
Accommodation is on sharing basis with common toilets and bath.
Food:
Food offered will be simple authentic Indian vegetarian and freshly cooked. Three meals a day will be served. Assistance while cooking is desired of volunteers. Volunteers are free to cook meals of their country choice on every Sunday.
PARTICIPATION FEE:
The participation fees are as follows:a. For one/first month stay - Euro 350 b. For each additional month - Euro 300
Rural eco tourism has been on rise in north India. This project is our initiative to protect environment, landscape and natural resources by promoting responsible tourist behavior. Volunteers will be based in rural setting and have access to location frequently visited by tourists. After familiarizing with local community and neighbourhood, volunteers shall design a plan to create necessary interventions required for protecting environment &promoting responsible travelling.
Work:
Working closely with local community youth we expect volunteers to:1.Create a database of location frequented by tourists. 2.Designing and putting up signs raising awareness towards environmental and cultural preservation. 3.Making eco-tourism attractive by promoting it as source of livelihood for local community, providing much needed future sustainability to the project.
Volunteers with prior experience in related field are most welcome to apply and bring in new ideas.
Accommodation:
Accommodation is on sharing basis with common toilets and bath.
Food:
Food offered will be simple authentic Indian vegetarian and freshly cooked. Three meals a day will be served. Assistance while cooking is desired of volunteers. Volunteers are free to cook meals of their country choice on every Sunday.
PARTICIPATION FEE:
The participation fees are as follows:a. For one/first month stay - Euro 350 b. For each additional month - Euro 300
This is a mountain area where more than 70% population lives in rural areas and agriculture is the main stay of their survival. Off late, due to deforestation and land degradation, population pressure, unrestricted grazing by animals and indifferent attitude of people towards their environmental sanitation, the people feel the pinch of global warming and climate change. Some recongnise the changes and consequences but the majority fail to understand and correlate it to their life style. Since they still stick to the traditions and follow the age old farming practices their income levels are going down.
Changes in climatic conditions affect their farming and living conditions adversely. The green cover in mountains maintains the environmental balance and controls the climate in the whole country. The resources are sufficient but the people, due to lack of education and awareness, fail to conserve and preserve these resources.
This project is designed to work on these issues and volunteers are required to work with RUCHI team and local people to address some of them.
Work:
Volunteers will be involved in environmental education in the same area and work with youth workers and community leaders to initiate actions aiming at environmental sanitation, improve climatic changes and restrict global warming. Basically that will include education and awareness creation using various tools but any physical action leading to check Global warming, climate change, depletion of natural resources will be highly appreciated.
Accommodation:
This will be basic, simple and shared with common toilets. They will be staying in RUCHI complex accommodation with basic amenities. We shall provide mattresses but the volunteers are required to bring their own bed sheets, sleeping bags and personal toiletries.
Food:
Food offered will be simple authentic Indian vegetarian and freshly cooked. Three meals a day will be served. Assistance while cooking is desired of volunteers. Volunteers are free to cook meals of their country choice on every Sunday.
PARTICIPATION FEE:
The participation fees are as follows:a. For one/first month stay - Euro 350 b. For each additional month - Euro 300
This is a mountain area where people are purely dependent on agriculture for a living. However, due to shortage of water and small terraces on sloppy land the agriculture is unsustainable and farm production is not enough to cover three meals a day for a family round the year.
RUCHI campus is spread over an area of 3 hectares and has good fertile soil. Kitchen gardens need to be promoted to grow vegetables for consumption by staff and volunteers. In due course we would like them to serve as demonstration centre for farmers.
Work:
Both the volunteers will be involved in developing agriculture fields and grow herbs and vegetables organic way. They will work on raising awareness on various agricultural practices and set up demonstration units for farmers. In extra time, they can create awareness on environmental issues like Global warming, climate change, depletion of natural resources and wherever possible in seeking solutions as well.
Accommodation:
This will be basic, simple and shared with common toilets. They will be staying in RUCHI complex accommodation with basic amenities. We shall provide mattresses but the volunteers are required to bring their own bed sheets, sleeping bags and personal toiletries.
Food:
Food offered will be simple authentic Indian vegetarian and freshly cooked. Three meals a day will be served. Assistance while cooking is desired of volunteers. Volunteers are free to cook meals of their country choice on every Sunday.
PARTICIPATION FEE:
The participation fees are as follows:a. For one/first month stay - Euro 350 b. For each additional month - Euro 300
Keeping in view the need, easy accessibility and convenience of rural communities, RUCHI had created its base in a small rural village. Because of its location, it is hard to get English speaking volunteers/youth who could assist the IVS programme.
Work:
2 volunteers are required as a part of organizational capacity building. RUCHI is located in a remote village where part time working is not practiced. Committed skilled and specialized people are hard to get in this remote rural area.
The volunteers are required for general administration of organization and be involved with International Voluntary Service projects. He/She will be required to promote volunteers projects, reply mails and help administer projects during the season. If the need be, they will also lead a short term workcamp as a Team Leader. In free time, he will be required to go to villages also along with other team members and learn and contribute.
Accommodation:
This will be simple and shared by 2 volunteers. Both volunteers will be staying in RUCHI complex accommodation with basic amenities. We shall provide mattresses but the volunteers are required to bring their own bed sheets, sleeping bags and personal toiletries.
Food:
Food offered will be simple authentic Indian vegetarian and freshly cooked. Three meals a day will be served. Assistance while cooking is desired of volunteers. Volunteers are free to cook meals of their country choice on every Sunday.
PARTICIPATION FEE:
The participation fees are as follows:a. For one/first month stay - Euro 350 b. For each additional month - Euro 300
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