The Volunteer Action team at SWECHHA BEING HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION believes that the middle class has a pivotal role to play in shaping the discourse on Human Rights- as people whose voice is heard, as people with access to the media, as people with the capacity to influence policies and build pressure towards positive government action for inclusive development.

Internships are a part of our Volunteer Action programme. Our interns come from diverse professional and educational backgrounds, and are seen as integral contributors to the movement for Human Rights.

The underlying assumption in all our partnerships with interns is that the experience with SWECHHA will enable them to continue to participate in the struggle for the rights for all Human well beyond the course of this internship. In that sense, the internship is recognized as a beginning of a much longer relationship between SWECHHA and the intern, as well as the institution they represent.

At SWECHHA we believe in Human rights for three reasons – because the alternatives are unjust, illegal and ineffective.

Internship aims to:

• Provide an opportunity to interns, to put into practice and deepen their theoretical knowledge of development issues
• Provide the interns the platform to develop a more grounded understanding of Human rights challenges in an Indian context
• Give interns an opportunity to learn advocacy, researching, campaigning, networking skills and operational aspects of development work
• Provide opportunities to strengthen, scale up and build volunteer programmes
• Provide exposure for interns to take action for Human rights in their daily lives
• Enable them to transform into committed volunteers for Human rights after the internship program

Internship programs are designed to offer exposure to students and working professionals from varied academic and professional backgrounds. The design of an internship depends on both the interest and skill areas of the interns as well as requirements of SWECHHA.

This is an intensive engagement and no stipend is offered. The incidental costs pertaining to the assignment may be covered.

What it offers

Our interns and volunteers are involved in working on various Human rights issues such as Human labour, education, health, and other issues related to human and Human rights. The interns get a chance to explore, know and contribute in important mainstream work of the organization ranging from public mobilization, fact finding researches, field exposures and documentation, pilot run project ideas, learn the threads of HR, organising events, rope in media advocacy skills and many more.

The options mentioned are not exhaustive and can be various; there is scope for innovation and experimentation with novel ideas. All this contributes to advocacy with governments and other institutions to make Human Rights a reality for all Humanren.

Glimpses of work

• Reports
• Advocacy
• IECs prepared
• Events organized

How to apply

• For Individual applicants

You need to submit the completely filled SWECHHA Internship Application form.  Once filled, please send it to the region you intend to intern in. To contact SWECHHA region representative,

• For placement cell/ Faculty

1. a) Share the link to this page with all students
2. b) Students should submit the completely filled SWECHHA Internship Application form directly.

• To contact SWECHHA region representative

Eligibility criteria

• Should be above 18 years of age
• Should be in college/ recent pass out
• Should be able to put in a minimum of 4 weeks; 6 weeks or more is desirable
• Should give full time and intensive commitment
• Should believe in values upheld by SWECHHA – Respect for Human Dignity, Transparency, Innovation, Accountability, Secularism, Non Violence, Working in Partnership

How you can help volunteering virtually.

How can you contribute?

• Pass the word around
• Please drop us an email if you know of an orphanage not listed on this site.
• Contribute to this site with articles which you wish to be published and which you feel other like minded folks will enjoy reading the same.
• Finally, be a part of this network committed to acheive its vision and mission.

Do you like volunteering virtually?

• Virtual Volunteering – Please look at ways how you can help.
• Are you a web developer or IT professional who can contribute to this site? You can help us maintain this site and promote its usage.
• Are you a writer? You can help us promoting this site by writing articles related to Indian Orphanages and children destitution in India. We will promise that we will publish the articles as long as those articles are not inflammatory to religion and sentiment, and have good faith.
• Are you a professional artist/stage actor? You can help us raising funds to further make this network grow leaps and bounds.

Please drop us an email or contact us and one of our volunteers will get in touch with you.

Some examples of what you could help us with.

Here are some tips on what you can Volunteer.

• Conducting online research: finding information required by the company or an orphanage.
• Gathering web site addresses of similarly-focused organizations to contribute to this site.
• Using online phone books and web sites to update contact information for a database, etc.
• Help a organization on legal issues
• Writing articles for the website.
• Promote the organization in the online space(Discussion forums, listings) or offline via word of mouth.
• Translating a document into another language;
• Researching and writing articles for brochures, newsletters, web sites, etc.;

For any queries, write to SWECHHA  NGO volunteer representative Email:  Officer@Swechha.Org