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Central
Himalayan Rural Action Group (CHIRAG)
Central
Himalayan Rural Action Group (CHIRAG) is a development organisation
working with rural mountain communities in the north Indian state of
Uttarakhand. It is one of the largest NGOs in the area. It has done
pioneering work in natural resource management and social empowerment
in the region. It has also laid great emphasis on programs of income
generation to enable rural communities to become economically
self-reliant. Chirag has used its expertise with rural communities to
help other grassroots organisations in training and communication.
Website: http://www.chirag.org
Possible volunteering opportunities
Some themes
Chirag is keen on pursuing are:
- An
assessment of the penetration of mobile phones in our villages and
difference in ownership and use by gender and economic status.
- Support to a
producer company that is being formed to support rural livelihoods of
women. Diverse tasks will need to be undertaken and will range from
communication material, website design (or at least the content for
it), marketing strategy development.
- Studying the
impact of cattle feed made by a local women’s cooperative on milk
production.
- Visual
documentation of the work of Chirag. The area of operation as well as
of intervention is vast. We need to do photo and/or video documentation
of the work. A person who feels capable of conveying the story through
pictures, with skills in digital photography/video would be ideal.
- Documenting
the impact of residential trainings on the adolescent girls, their
families and villagers; Creation of case-studies
for the Chirag website.
- Photo-documentation of
soil and water conservation efforts that can be used for community
level training.
Other projects in the field of Education, Health, Youth Trainings,
Natural
Resource Management, Agricultural Innovations, Livelihoods and Animal
Husbandry
are possible.
Preferred skills
Open to students with both social sciences and physical sciences
backgrounds.
Approximate cost
£1400 for eight weeks, including flights (costed at £500,
to be booked by volunteers), visa costs, board and lodging, local
travel and Camvol administrative fee.
NOTE:
Estimated
costs for
placements assume that flights to India are £500. However,
applicants should note that flight costs can vary greatly depending on
airlines and time of bookings, and adjust their budget estimates
accordingly. Similarly, vaccination costs have NOT been included in
estimated costs, and applicants should take this into account while
planning their budgets.
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