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Leh, Ladakh, India
Volunteer Abroad Positions Available
Teacher Trainers and Librarians
Experienced teachers and elementary school/public library librarians who can work with village-based teachers and a District Resource Person to establish libraries and reading programmes.
Minimum stay of 15 days. Totally self-funded volunteers who are able to rough it in villages (home stays, pit toilets).
Health Support team.
Experienced doctors, therapists and public health workers to support HI and its partner (BC Centre for International Child Health) at the Paediatric Handicapped Unit at Sonam Norboo Memorial District Hospital - Leh. 2011 needs include physical and occupational therapists and SLPs who can train Ladakhi therapists and paediatricians who can work with local staff to produce Child Development and Milestones charts and educational materials. And mental health specialists who can help train village health workers in daily interaction with mental illness clients.
Minimum stay of 30 days. Totally self-funded volunteers who can stay at inexpensive guest house associated with HI in Leh.
Hockey Coaches
HI's Future Leaders we 3 volunteers between 2-26 January to help coach 100 kids age 3-18 in ice skating and hockey. There's a pond rink, 100 pairs of skates and lots of ice and cold available. Vols must be self-financed on their air fare, and able to live in village homes with their Ladakhi peers, who are co-coaches and translators.
If you are in Ladakh around 20 January, they can skate with the Canadian team in the now rather famous Friendship Cup in Leh.
For you sake, the volunteers need to consider being in India for 21 days, or the acclimitising in winter in Ladakh becomes overwhelming. Oh, and the Domkhar under-16 team won the all-Ladakh championship last year.
Volunteer Online Positions Available
Plastic Bottle Greenhouse Designer and Educator
We are looking to partner with a North American Primary of Middle School to build and use a plastic-bottle greenhouse as an inquiry based learning unit.
Students would research the concept. Discuss it with a group of Ladakhi students (K-8), raise the funds, organise collecting and stuffing refuse plastic bottles, construct, plant and monitor plant growth over a school year.
The kids would connect once each month about their experiences and share with a greater audience through this web site or school sites. Our Middle School is in a remote Himalayan Valley with lots of learning potential for your kids. They will be on line in March 2012.
Desk Top Publishing - Computer Support
The HI Education Team is transforming the District's Primary Education curricular books into computer/DVD-based 'talking books'.
We are looking for volunteers to take images, text and recordings and consolidate into power points or web pages
and Volunteers who can work via skype with Ladakhi team members to teach them skills to do the same.
Volunteers are needed throughout 2012. Some books would only take 1 day of work; others could take 10 days. Web design, Quark or InDesign and Powerpoint skills required. Skype chats would be 1x per month at pre-arranged times.
Volunteer Activity
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Cost for Volunteers
HI is an all-voluntary organisation with no paid staff. We only accept volunteers who are wholly self-funded and can stay a minimum of 21 days.
Your costs will average $10 per day if working out of the capitol city of Leh, or $5 per day if working in a remote village.
Ladakh is in the heart of the Himalayas. Everything is straight up or straight down. Services are limited, winters are cold, and the people are fabulous! Vols need to be healthy and fit and like to sing and dance with villagers.
Volunteers pay their costs directly to the local provider.
Volunteer Placement Logistics
All our projects are in territory above 3500 metres. We request volunteers stay for one week before starting service (to acclimitise) and provide at least 14 days service to any HI project.
Volunteer Skills Needed
HI has 2011 volunteer placements for:
Teachers and Librarians, Computer skills teachers in remote village schools participating in internet exchanges of teaching-learning units.
OTs, PTs, SLPs, Women's health counsellors and Mental Health specialists working in the District Hospital's Paediatric Handicapped Unit and HI's Trauma Counselling project (from the 2010 floods)