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You will be working on our own English language magazine, the Sivakasi Times. This is a free magazine that is distributed throughout the town. The aim is to provide an English language magazine to help local students to improve their English, each issue with a different theme. It is the only English language magazine produced in the area and the editor is an experienced local journalist. You alongside other volunteers will be interviewing local people and be involved in the magazine from preliminary discussions on content to distribution. You will be working closely alongside the local community you are in.
We take seriously our responsibilities towards the communities we work with in India. We have full time local staff on the ground that will meet you from the airport, give you an induction on arrival and support you from our local office throughout your stay. They are local people who we pay a good local wage and can give you all the information and support you will need during your stay. They have been trained by us to work with visiting volunteers.
In India you may be staying with a local family or in a local hostel. We pay the family or the hostel where you will be staying. This means that the money goes directly into the local economy. The meals you eat, the chairs you sit on have all probably been made in the town where you will be staying. Living in India will give you an opportunity to be a real part of the local community. Most of the money that you spend during your time at the placement will be at grassroots level going into local Indian businesses. Our organisation is environmentally responsible. We recycle at our offices and offset our carbon emissions from staff flying to our destinations around the world. We believe that actions like this can be the first step towards preserving the planet for future generations.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
