Welcome on the site of Amaidi Volunteering in India. Whether you're searching for information about voluntary work vacancies in developmental projects, for an internship or for an assignment as a professional with an NGO, a company or a government agency, Amaidi - as facilitating organization - offers its resources and helps in finding the best place.

Amaidi envisages an extensive network of highly qualified project partners: organizations sending volunteers, interns or professionals from Europe and US and receiving organizations in India: NGOs, companies and government agencies. Where the need of the receiving organization and the need of the person(s) coming to India are perfectly matched. And where all services related to voluntary work- and travel are within close reach.

Amaidi aims to be a focal point for volunteers, interns and professionals from Europe and US as well as for organizations in India at the receiving end, matching supply and demand in either direction, whether short term or long term, as a single assignment or as a combination of travel and work, facilitating placement, guidance, logistics and accomodation.

By sending volunteers, interns and professionals to local Indian development organizations  like charitable NGO's, schools and hospitals, AMAIDI aims at promoting sustainable development: 'development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs' (UN/Brundtland Commission (1987).

Where people from the West work with local staff, transfer of knowledge and experience takes place in a mutual process, aimed at positively influencing the strategy and operations of the receiving organization. By safeguarding the stream of professional volunteers and volunteering professionals towards her partner organizations, AMAIDI wants to support their work towards upliftment of their common target-group: the rural and (semi-)urban poor.  

Amaidi is a partnership concern since Sept  2006 and currently operating in South-India, in the Union Territory of Puducherry and the States of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. Amaidi's project partners are situated in the rural areas, as well as in semi-urban and urban localities. Some project sites are in remote villages or hilly, tribal areas, there are projects in Tsunami affected fishermen's hamlets along the South-Indian coast, in the former French colonial town of Puducherry, as well as in Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu or in Pune, close to Mumbai. Plans to expand to Rajasthan and Kerala, are in the making.

We are very happy to announce that on Sept 9, 2007, AMAIDI has celebrated her first birthday. Except for the hard work of AMAIDI's staff, we would like to acknowledge the many sided support given by Van Campen Consulting in The Netherlands, it's director Mrs. Marleen Teunis-van Campen in particular. Her support has enabled AMAIDI to come into existence, carving out a sustainable vision and mission, streamlining our ambitions and directing us towards achieving our goals.

Marleen: reuze bedankt!

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