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Individual Attention:
For Sanma, individual attention means helping each volunteer integrate into the local culture while providing the flexibility necessary to meet individual needs.
Prior to departure, you'll speak with one of our U.S.-based Sanma Project Specialists who have served in the villages and are able to respond to specific questions about the area and the project because they have been there. They can inform you about the local culture and day-to-day life within the village, as well as give you a sense of what you might expect as an overseas volunteer.
The Sanma Experience:
While many overseas volunteer programs require extended stays and months of training that most volunteers cannot afford, our projects allow you to immerse yourself into the local culture over just one week.
Volunteer Work:
Your volunteer work is project-based and designed with the purpose of accomplishing the appropriate phase of the project within a week. These projects include orphanages, schools, churches and construction. Volunteering in any of these projects provides the foundation and framework of an experience that allows you to participate in meaningful work while gaining access to a new culture attainable only by working side-by-side with local people.
Short Term Trips: Overview
Visiting India with a purpose of learning ways of how your life can make a meaningful contribution to make another life worth living through serving, learning, and contributing.
How long is a short term trip?
2-3 weeks total. Allow a total of 4 days for the international segment of the travel and the remainder on field.
What does a short trip would involve?
During a short term trip, volunteer will visit villages with a team of
Sanma field workers and learn about the practical ways to empower people through various programs that are in place.
The trip also enable the volunteer to know the difference between the concept and reality of the culture of the second largest population in the world by interacting with the people in the rural villages and slums through conducting a survey, helping with projects such as a medical camp, teaching a group of children in a village to use a coloring book that teach them basic health and hygiene practices, building a village school, or helping with a farm work project.
What is the take home from a volunteer trip?
The volunteer will be able to gather information to intelligently answer questions to those who wish to live and work in India in various capacities.
For someone seeks a career in India, serving as a volunteer with an organization such as
Sanma allows to have an in-dept knowledge of the real world outside of the metro, high-tech world of the country, which is quite different from the actual India.
What does it cost for a short term trip?
$2500 per person including air ticket and lodging in India for up to four weeks.
What are the items included in this amount?
Coach class international air ticket and regular class train ticket to
Sanma volunteer center in India, lodging at the volunteer center, food (regional, prepared at the center), and site tours.
If the volunteer makes his or her own travel arrangements to the volunteer center, what does it cost for the lodging, food etc?
$400- 600 depending on the length of the term, which covers lodging, food, and site visit expense
Long Term Volunteers:
Long term volunteers can join at any time once completed the interview and application process.
Cost: $300/ month per person (Lodging, food, and local field visits included)
Volunteer pays for personal shopping, traveling, and other related expenses
Preparing for the travel:
- Volunteer submit the volunteer application to Sanma
- Sanma verifies the application and inform the volunteer
- Volunteer obtains visa to India from the local Indian consulate of the volunteer
- Volunteer pays the trip fee/ make traveling arrangements
- Upon arrival at the volunteer center, complete a one-day orientation
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