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Fri 25 Sep - Sun 04 Oct 2015

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OVERVIEW

What to expect

ITINERARY

What you will do

COSTS

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The challenge

  • Support an incredibly worthwhile project with your physical efforts
  • Support disabled children with access to vital physical and educational support
  • Help to build a rehabilitation centre that will provide support to over 100 children
  • Change the lives of marginalised children in Pondicherry, India
  • Experience life in Southern India by working alongside the local community

A community challenge provides an exciting opportunity to work with people of another culture and to make a significant difference to their lives.

They are demanding and often emotional experiences and volunteers generally find that the experience teaches them a lot about themselves and their capacity to go beyond their usual comfort zone. When you sign up to a community challenge you are committing to invest your enthusiasm, motivation and hard work to help make a difference. You will learn the rest on-site, as skilled supervisors will be on hand to show you what to do. Together we will show that the more you put into this project, the greater the rewards will be.

Children with disabilities are amongst the most marginalized sections of society in India. While in the last decade and a half, there has been a growing awareness and significant achievements, a large number of physically and mentally challenged children, particularly in rural villages, still live in alienation and isolation. Only 3 out of every 10 children with a disability in rural Pondicherry have access to rehabilitation services, and 50% of these children eat only one meal a day.

Satya Special School is an NGO that provides home based services to disabled children in rural villages in Pondicherry. From small beginnings in 2003 with 20 children, Satya today caters to 520 children with special needs. With over 77 qualified staff, they function in two urban and three rural centres.

The Kodathur Village Rehabilitation Centre which is being constructed will be the first village centre for children with special needs and is expected to provide support to over 100 children. The centre will be run by qualified professionals and will ensure a new era of quality care and improved living for children with disabilities and their families. It will have facilities for physiotherapy, solar powered hydrotherapy, speech therapy, other activities for daily living, a kitchen and dining hall and outdoor play equipment which is accessible for the disabled.

By taking part in this challenge and building the village centre with the local community, you will change the lives of children in Pondicherry.

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