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Volunteering in India
Name: Gazi Moshe & Fia
Name of organization / place we volunteered: We volunteered in Samanway Ashram. They live by Gandi’s ways. The head of the ashram is called Drako.
Location: India, Bihar Bodhgaya. It is located between Veranasi and Culcuta
Type of Activity: Help teach children to read and write, help with meals for the children, help teach them to sow and drive. Some children are sent to Universities. Most of the children are orphans and some come from poor families.
Year we volunteered: 2000
Duration: We volunteered in the Ashram for 4 month
Specialty needed: The ashram will accept anybody with good will and intentions can come and volunteer. But they are also looking for people with specific knowledge such as: doctors, nurses, agriculture specialists and teachers
Recommendations: The Ashram has rules such as: no smoking, no intercourse, you have to be a vegetarian and you have to live in modesty. You have to know English well. You should listen to the people you work with before you try and teach them.
In order to really help you have to live with the children and that means: Wake up with them at 4:00 am, do yoga together, clean the ashram before the children come to study, work with the children in the field and more.
Notice: It is customary to leave a donation before you leave the place
Room & Board: The volunteers sleep in the ashram in separate rooms from the children
Food and water: volunteers eat local food prepared in the ashram and drink boiled water.
Contact the place: you can either arrive directly to the place or send a letter of notice before you fly to India.
To hear more in details please contact in Israel:
Gazi Moshe & Fia at: 02- 994 5247 or cell: 053- 856643
PLEASE DO NOT CALL AFTER 21:00 pm
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