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COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERING

Assisting in Computer Labs
For most of the mentally challenged students computers serves more as a teaching tool which enables them to develop better focus and concentrate and also helps their motor skills. Volunteers could help students play educational and recreational computer games or take them through short films.

Classroom Activities
Special educators conduct indoor and outdoor activities at the School for which assistance is needed.

Male Volunteers are required for conducting sports activities and playing games like football or cricket especially with our young male adults as our team consists of all female staff.

Children with special needs require continuous innovative and newer teaching tools as repetitive use of the same tools creates monotony and it’s also difficult to get their attention. The task of preparing different tools for all the students is cumbersome for one single teacher. Thus assistance in preparing such aids would relieve the teachers to a great extent and lead towards enhancing her overall efficiency.

In addition to the already existing challenged the performance of young adults at the vocational centre is greatly influenced by their varying moods. They need continuous motivation and appreciation for enabling them to better their performance. They need personal attention and it is not possible for one or two teachers to provide that environment to all the 16 young adults at one time. Thus volunteers are needed to reduce this gap thereby increasing the motivational levels and impacting the performance of the young adults.

Exposure trips
Mentally challenged are provided guided learning experiences through visits to railway stations, market places, shopping mall, post office and also through recreational visits to farm house and picnic spots. Assistance is required to make the trip more comfortable and safe for the children.

Events
The school has laid due emphasis on the overall wellness of the child both physical and mental. The design of the school program includes providing guided learning experiences to the child both inside and outside the classroom. We create and also tap every opportunity of providing such essential learning experiences by organizing cultural activities, celebrating festivals, holding monthly competitions, conducting sports activities and other activities throughout the year. For organizing all these events volunteering help is required before and during such events.

We participate in awareness building campaigns through rallies on relevant days of the cause like ‘World Disabled Day’, ‘World Deaf Day’. Assistance in organizing such campaigns and rallies is required.

Throughout the year various events are held at our schools for which funding is required. Finding sponsors for such events minimizes our burden of bearing such costs. A reference of sponsors and supporters for such specific events is one area where the need for volunteer assistance is needed.

The Indian Council for Mental Health (Hygiene)
Zarir Master / Sanyukta Narvekar
UPM School Building
Ground Floor, SVP Road, Girgaum
Mumbai 400 004
Phone : 022 23855205 , 23861087
email : icmh1@rediffmail.com

CORE COMPETENCY VOLUNTEERING

Organise seminars, followup
Come and help us organize our seminars, follow up on the exciting work our graduates are doing, help maximize our media presence, help us reach out to many many young people and professors with our exciting programs.

Assisting in Computer Labs
For the hearing impaired students the usage of audio visual techniques for learning has made the entire learning process very simple, easy and interesting. Thus our special educators have been trained to prepare lesson plans on computers. There are quite a few of them who are using the technique effectively. However many need to further develop their skills. Volunteers having a fair knowledge of computers would be of great assistance in helping the teachers prepare the lesson plans and simultaneously also upgrade the knowledge base of the teachers.

In addition to the above Computers is also a subject for the hearing impaired students. Volunteers interested could also assist the computer instructor to conduct the class and provide children with the practical experience they need.

Documentation
Documentation is a vital area requiring volunteering support. A need to document case studies of students, prepare write ups of events and activities at the schools and its outcomes is an area where volunteers could extend their support.

Photography
Volunteers who are interested in photography and video shooting could document the above mentioned activities through cameras.

Communication
Being a social organization communication plays a vital role. What and how we do need to be communicated to our donors. We need to create visibility about the cause to increase the acceptance of the special population and fight against the social stigma attached to the disability. To ensure that our programs run smoothly we need to raise funds. Thus we need to prepare communication materials which include pamphlets for events, power point presentations, writing articles for website / newspaper / magazine, 2 pager updates and other such materials.

HR
Expertise from HR could be of great help if they could develop and help us implement techniques for team building and increasing the motivation levels of the team.