AMAIDI Volunteering in India 10, 2nd Cross Street, Bharathi Nagar, Auroville Main Road Kottakuppam Post, Vanur Taluk, Villupuram District, 605104 Tamil Nadu, INDIA Phone : (+91) 9626565007 info@amaidi.org
AMAIDI aims at locating you as close as possible to your project site. In case your project is located in Tamil Nadu (South-India) and traveling to your project does not exceed 1 hour by public transport from our guesthouse in Bharathi Nagar, you'll be accommodated - provided there is place available - in AMAIDI Guesthouse. If the journey takes longer or when a project organization offers a place inside the project premises (and the volunteers prefers to stay there), AMAIDI will try its best to have you accommodated at close range to the project. Outside Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the project organization where a volunteer is going to work, will take over the responsability to accommodate a volunteer. AMAIDI will make sure that accommodation and food quality standards are maintained, wherever a volunteer works.
Privacy & Hygiene
Although your accommodation will ensure a pleasant stay where a volunteer can take rest after a hard day's work, the concept of privacy is most certainly different from one is used to. If you stay in a three star hotel, most probably you'll be undisturbed. But in an ordinary guesthouse or living with an Indian family (known as 'home stay'), you'll be battered with all kinds of unknown sounds now and then. Particularly when you want to get some necessary sleep. Or when you'd like to sleep a little longer the next morning. Life in India is as dynamic as it starts early. And continues into the night, at times. And then there's the Indian 'permittable level of hygiene', which is sub-standard according to our (Western) measures. AMAIDI will do its utmost to make your stay - even in remote areas - as healthy as possible, but one has to be prepared to at least a certain amount of uninvited little guests: mosquitos (bring your net!), ants, cockroaches and - sometimes - rats. Not the
one's that eat you alive, but nevertheless... if you're accommodated in a rural setting, most likely you'll encounter them all (but not at the same time and not in large quantities, mind you). Trust that your host wants to get rid of them in your room as soon as possible, once you've sighted them. He also doesn't like them in his own house!
Fees
Your accommodation fee varies. For the fees at AMAIDI Guesthouse and nearby Home Stay, click here . Regarding accommodation at larger hotels or guesthouses, they're available on demand. Some host organizations do not charge the volunteer for his/her accommodation; others only charge a small nominal fee. Once a choice is confirmed, AMAIDI will inform the volunteer/intern about all aspects of his/her stay, including fees, so that a budget can be drawn up in case a volunteer/intern has to do some fundraising for his/her own journey and subsequent stay in India. The bottomline is that AMAIDI aspires to offer the best possible accommodation for a most reasonable fee.
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