Things to Do in Varanasi , India / Volunteering with lovely Kids

The spiritual capital city of India, Varanasi , has a bowl full of enthralling activities and upbeat lifestyle. One can find a huge mix of different cultures from all across the country amalgamating here.

The city reflects a perfect blend of ancient culture and modern technology. An opportunity to volunteer in Varanasi can be a great experience for many who are keen to see the real life example of ‘Unity in Diversity’.

Mahatma Gandhi’s once said, ‘the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others’ and keeping that Gandhian spirit in mind, volunteering is definitely the best way to find our way back to the realities and understand our roots and traditions of a collectivist society.

Volunteering, which is a distinctly human characteristic, essentially calls for sharing and caring about fellow human beings irrespective of one’s class, nationality, religion, race, mother tongue and so on.

And to encourage, motivate and guide future volunteers, a list of tasks usually undertaken by volunteers is given. This, by no means, is exhaustive and all volunteers can use their own creativity and efforts to contribute to the best of their capacity in the projects.

Voices of children need to be heard for a more peaceful and livable world.

The kids in the street children project are, as the name suggests, children of the streets. Without homes and means of proper care and education, too often they’re led to begging or undertaking menial jobs for survival. As grim as the situation sounds, spending time with the children, interacting with them, paying attention to what they’re saying is the most basic but the most impact thing to do.

Happy Volunteer Spending Time with the kids .

 Not all of the kids go to school or even if they do, the govt. Schools don’t too often take proper care of their educational needs and to thus help the kids keep up with their course and formal classes, volunteers can help them through informal and remedial classes.

One of the most effective ways to impact learning and cultivate self-confidence and volunteers can come up with a range of games and extra-curricular activities to help with the kids of the assigned center feel more involved and engaged.

• Playing with the children and helping in making a playful environment at the center

• Assisting the staff or caretaker in taking care of the children

• Playing with kids and spending time with them.
• Decorating the day care centers to make them more attractive
• Making educational toys
• Help in tasks for development of the children
• Support in day-to-day activities at the center
• Teach arts & crafts, games, English, and other fun subjects to engage the kids. Many Other activities according the desire of the volunteers can teach to the lovely kids of here , Welcome here in Varanasi , India ,  Volunteering Program .