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About India Volunteer Care
"To us all towns are one, all men our kin"
Our History
India Volunteer Care was born out of a genuine concern for the suffering that is apparent in the area where we live and work. We observed the growing popularity of travelling abroad to do volunteer work in India and we wanted to use this trend to benefit the underprivileged population the NGOs in our region serve.
We found that funding restraints, language barriers, and housing shortages meant that many small, local NGOs had to reject potential volunteers because they had no way to manage them. Additionally, we were disheartened to see the huge prices attached to many larger volunteer placement organizations when we personally knew how affordable living and working in India can be, especially for volunteers coming from abroad.
IVC was created to make an avenue through which international volunteers can come and offer their services. We comprise of a small group of like-minded local people who aim to identify and place international volunteers where they are most needed: in emerging, small scale, grassroots organizations that lack the necessary means and organization to attract and accommodate international volunteers, but would benefit greatly from outside assistance and knowledge. There are a multitude of NGOs here that are desperate for voluntary help – whether it is from skilled or unskilled volunteers.
We operate out of the genuine wish to maintain, strengthen and expand the NGO sector within our region. We believe NGOs are an essential part to India's development and it's effort to bring more people out of poverty. We aim to keep our costs low and our doors open wide as to attract as many volunteers to our region as possible. We can all work together to make the lives of those around us improve.
India Volunteer Care is a non-profit organisation registered in Puducherry with the Indian Trusts Act of 1882.
We found that funding restraints, language barriers, and housing shortages meant that many small, local NGOs had to reject potential volunteers because they had no way to manage them. Additionally, we were disheartened to see the huge prices attached to many larger volunteer placement organizations when we personally knew how affordable living and working in India can be, especially for volunteers coming from abroad.
IVC was created to make an avenue through which international volunteers can come and offer their services. We comprise of a small group of like-minded local people who aim to identify and place international volunteers where they are most needed: in emerging, small scale, grassroots organizations that lack the necessary means and organization to attract and accommodate international volunteers, but would benefit greatly from outside assistance and knowledge. There are a multitude of NGOs here that are desperate for voluntary help – whether it is from skilled or unskilled volunteers.
We operate out of the genuine wish to maintain, strengthen and expand the NGO sector within our region. We believe NGOs are an essential part to India's development and it's effort to bring more people out of poverty. We aim to keep our costs low and our doors open wide as to attract as many volunteers to our region as possible. We can all work together to make the lives of those around us improve.
India Volunteer Care is a non-profit organisation registered in Puducherry with the Indian Trusts Act of 1882.
Our Sister Organisation: Prime Trust
India Volunteer Care was created in 2010 by the staff of another local NGO, Prime Trust. The two organizations share many resources and their offices are within walking distance of each other. Founded in 2002, Prime Trust has three main focus points: empowering women, educating children, and providing social awareness.
Prime Trust, and it's volunteers through IVC, work to bring about social transformation through empowering the rural and the urban poor and enable them to become self-reliant. Prime Trust supports women and children who find themselves in situations of poverty and injustice in the South Indian city of Pondicherry, and in the surrounding state of Tamil Nadu.
You can visit Prime Trust's website at www.primetrust.org .
Prime Trust accepts all of it's volunteers through IVC.
Prime Trust, and it's volunteers through IVC, work to bring about social transformation through empowering the rural and the urban poor and enable them to become self-reliant. Prime Trust supports women and children who find themselves in situations of poverty and injustice in the South Indian city of Pondicherry, and in the surrounding state of Tamil Nadu.
You can visit Prime Trust's website at www.primetrust.org .
Prime Trust accepts all of it's volunteers through IVC.
