Would you like to help SMILE NGO to bring a smile to the most neglected children living in kolkata ,India?
The project
This project is all about bringing smile to all underprivileged refugee kids. Providing informal basic education like english teaching, hygiene basics, organising entertainment programs, food distribution for these children under SMILE Happy Home Project (A Non Formal School for destitute refugee children) would be the main target of the volunteers. SMILE Society (Situational Management & Inter Learning Establishment Society) is a registered Non profit working for these underprivileged communities around the state of West Bengal since 2003.
Most important target of the project is to bring smile among these children. Volunteer use different ways of informal education technique to present a unique and attractive way of education programs for these kids. Most of these kids speak local Bengali/Hindi language but they are very smart and intelligent.so teaching them with the support of local coordinator would not be so difficult, just little bit of patience and involvement can solve this problem easily.
Volunteer work
All volunteers go through orientation on arrival and local language session during this period. There is also a workshop every evening when volunteers prepare the next day lesson plan of action. Volunteers can also help local coordinator in other activities like food distribution, organising theater, storytelling and entertainment games for the children. Whole camp is run the supervision of very experienced local project coordinator. Saturday and Sunday are free for volunteers. You can rest or tour around the city or nearby places.
Moreover if you get a chance to live with the local host family then that brings extra bonus to any traveller. It helps to learn the culture, tradition, language while staying within the normal people of the society. Living on any hotel can never give any traveller such wide scope to know the society and communities as a whole. SMILE society always tries to give international volunteers a big scope to know about the local communities and understand the family environment. Smile Society (NGO) has been operating since 2003!
Volunteer would be given responsibility of a small group 2-4 children at a time and this number would be flexible so as the children. We also hope volunteer would help the children to speak English and prepare a Lession plan for individual kids. Education level varies a lot. Normally there is no need of supplies to bring for the class but if anyone wish to bring any education supplies for children is fine.
The location:
Madhyamgram (8 km from Kolkata Airport). It is a suburbs with all facilities, transportation, shopping places. A peaceful place than centre of the city.
