Your Work:

As an intern you will be put in charge of a project, and expected to use your skills and initiative with our guidance to ensure its implementation.

This will mostly involve teaching English, arts and crafts workshops or other awareness workshops such as health and hygiene, environment in local government schools as well as organising projects at the local Government Children’s Home for Boys*.

* We have restricted access to the Government Children's Home for Girls. The project at the Girls Home is usually reserved for our own staff and very long term female interns due to the sometimes sensitive nature of the work there.

Typical work would involve:

• Schools program: Interns will be involved in teaching in one or more of our schools, in the following areas: Teaching English You would teach English by practicing conversational English with the students and using the books provided by the government schools to help the students prepare for their exams.
• Arts & Crafts: You would conduct arts workshops in the schools, involving theatre, puppetry, arts and crafts etc. This project is basically up to your skills and imagination, but encourages the children to develop theirs and learn new skills.
• Healthy Body, Health Mind: You will teach the children the basics of health, hygiene and nutrition, picking up where previous interns have left off and introducing new topics and ideas to the students. Depending on the age of the students that you teach and visit, you could be giving a workshop on washing hands after going to the toilet or a lecture about nutrition. The basic outlines for past workshops are available for your use, but we encourage interns to develop new methods for teaching and explaining these issues in fun and interesting ways.
• Computer training: You will teach the students (and teachers) of our schools how to use a computer and learn skills that will be of use to them in the future. As every school has a different number of computers, students and age groups, the workshops differ from a simple ‘turn on/off’, to the explanation of Microsoft Word/Excel and paint.
• Sports: As many of the students at the government schools do not participate in sports activities, you will be teaching them the basics of different sports such as football (soccer), badminton and volleyball. By doing so the children learn to enjoy themselves by playing games and get good exercise as well.
• Distance to projects: As some of the schools are located in the villages or on the outskirts of the city, working in the schools can involve long bus journeys into the countryside. While this is a marvelous opportunity to experience rural India, it can be tiring and time consuming also. While we do not insist that interns have any previous teaching experience, it can be helpful to do a TEFL course before you come to work with Peace Child India to prepare yourselves for teaching in front of a group of children.
• Government Children’s Home for Boys*: The Government Children’s Home for Boys is a state-run home for street and working children. male who are picked up for working or begging on the streets are brought to this home until social workers can identify their families, if possible, and they can be reunited with them.
  As the male are temporary, they have no set structure; instead they stay in one room the entire day.
  Our staff and interns create lessons and arts projects for the boys to teach them the importance of learning but also to allow them to be the children they so often don’t get to be. The projects organised here are similar to the school projects such as English teaching, arts and crafts, sports, health and hygiene.
  * We have restricted access to the Government Children's Home for Girls. The project at the Girls Home is usually reserved for our own staff and very long term female interns due to the sometimes sensitive nature of the work there.

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