Engage With Unnati ISEC

Volunteering, internships and employee engagement programmes in tribal field areas of Maharashtra — making a real impact with under-served children and communities.

🤝 Volunteer 🎓 Internship 🏢 Employee Engagement 🏠 Home-Based
Preface

Why Engage With Us?

Volunteering, internships and employee engagement will be offered at Unnati ISEC's tribal field areas in Maharashtra — specifically in the Melghat region (Akola district) and Dharpur block (Thane district).

Volunteers and interns experience life in a tribal village firsthand, working alongside children and communities to support education, library activities, data collection, and social sector work. This is not just a CV line — it is a change in perspective.

Dharpur Block, Thane District
Akola District, Vidarbha Region
Home-Based (Remote)
Express Interest

What you will gain

  • Orientation to a different culture, living and values
  • Understanding of different childhoods
  • Joy and satisfaction from dealing with different kinds of people
  • Challenges to your own biases and prejudices
  • Understanding the "Social sector", its non-profit nature and its contribution to the development of humanity
  • Ample reflection opportunities for budding inside and outside
  • Glimpses of educational pedagogy

📋 Preferred Stays

Skills in software fields, content creation, reporting, data analysis, translating Marathi to English or Hindi to English, planning events, writing articles, or photography/videography are especially welcome.

How You Can Help

What will the volunteer / intern do?

From classroom sessions to community surveys — here's how you can contribute on the ground and remotely.

With Children

  • Mathematics sessions for children in primary and secondary grades
  • Art sessions
  • Language games, language fairs
  • Science games
  • Organise day picnics and educational excursions
  • Preparing teaching material to be used in role-classes (puppets, flash cards, innovative teaching tools, etc.)

With Youth & Village

  • Understand your body and emotions (with youth from villages)
  • Sports competitions / camps
  • Art sessions & Tiffin sessions
  • Household survey in the village
  • Survey of education status
  • Survey of livelihood status
  • Financial education
  • Film screening and discussion

Unnati ISEC as an Organisation

  • Helping the organisation strengthen its social media platforms
  • Help in fundraising activities
  • Entering data into software fields — financial reports, preparing reports, creating reports
  • Translating reports and information from Marathi to English or Hindi to English
  • Helping in planning events, articles and newsletter for blogs
  • Designing mailers, posters, and other promotional material
Deep Dive

Volunteering Activities

Explore the types of structured activities volunteers participate in, from classroom sessions to community surveys.

👧 P.Y.I. Volunteering Activities — With Children ▾
  • Children, youths, adults from tribal villages
  • With children from primary and secondary grades: Maths sessions using play-way methods, Art sessions, Language games / Language fairs, Science games
  • Organise day picnics and educational excursions for a group of children
  • Preparing Teaching material which will be used in role-classes (e.g. puppets, charts, flash cards, innovative teaching tools, etc.)
🏘️ With Youth from Villages ▾
  • Understand your body and emotions
  • Sports competitions / camps
  • Art sessions
  • Tiffin sessions (in the village)
  • Household survey
  • Survey of education status
  • Survey of livelihood status
📚 For Unnati ISEC's Library ▾
  • Maintaining / collecting books for the library
  • Books read / loved by children
  • Organising book fairs/events in villages and schools
  • Periodic stocktaking of books
👩‍💼 With Adults ▾
  • Financial education
  • Film screening and discussion
  • UK short training will be provided to volunteers on the sessions to be conducted (Dos and Don'ts, orientation of tribal culture)
Practicalities

Costs & Logistics

Unnati ISEC will make the homestay arrangements available in the village; the cost of which will be borne by the volunteer.

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Food & Lodging Approx. Rs. 350–550 per day. Simple but very clean accommodation in a village on sharing basis with basic amenities. Mostly vegetarian food, occasionally non-vegetarian.
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Travel to Field Rs. 1,000–1,500 one-way (train + bus/cab) depending on the class. Travel is mainly by train. An overnight journey from Mumbai and Pune.
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Field Travel Rs. 100–300 per day (including petrol and vehicle charges) for visiting the field and conducting sessions.
🏕️
Home-Based Option For volunteers unable to travel — data entry, translation, social media, design and writing tasks can be done remotely with no cost involved.

Please share the following when you express interest:

› Your Full Name
› Contact Number
› Location
› Languages known
› Education Qualifications
› Profession
› Preferred Location (Home / Dharpur / Akol)
› Frequency (Daily / Few days a week / etc.)