INTERNSHIP OFFER
SOCIAL WORK INTERN/VOLUNTEER
Andrewspalli Centre for Integrated Development (ACID)
Branch Office: Vill+P.O- Jogeshganj, P.S- Hemnagar Coastal
Dist- North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, 743439
Email: acid.mgnt@gmail.com, Phone: +919475684020
Activities : NGO/Development Sector
Duration : At least 3 months (preference for 6 month commitment), flexible starting and ending dates.
Gratification : Unpaid internship. Accommodation will provided by ACID.
Andrewspalli Centre for Integrated Development (ACID) :
Andrewspalli centre for Integrated Development (ACID) is a nonprofit organization with its registered office in Santiniketan, West Bengal.
It is an organization on the state level and has currently implemented its major projects in the districts of Birbhum and North 24 Parganas
of West Bengal.
Currently we are implementing three different projects in Hingalganj block, all the projects linked to child protection, women empowerment,
disaster preparedness and rural development.
Sponsorship (SAD) Project : ACID is currently implementing the Sponsorship project in the three Gram
Panchayats, namely, Jogeshganj, Gobindakati and Kalitala under Hingalganj block of North 24 Parganas. The project focuses on the dual aspects
of health and education and, at present it supports 196 children. Under the project, 4 free of cost educational centres are established. There,
Children are provided with learning materials, books, uniform kit, sports materials and nutritious meals. Students and their families are also
provided with free medicines and health checkups. These accomplishments are provided to them, thereby giving them the opportunity to complete
the Higher Secondary level with good results and acquire good values and career aspirations.
Livelihood Project : The Livelihood Project entitled 'Water for food in the coastal area of Sundarban'
has ensured water availability for agricultural production and has provided alternative means of livelihood for the poor to get various income
opportunities.
Under this project, 130 extremely poor people are selected from 8 villages through 'Participatory Poverty Assessment'. One water harvesting
structure has been constructed through which water supplied inside the agricultural fields to improve the quality of the soil and enrich the
cultivation of rice. The community of farmers is strengthened.
Disaster Preparedness Project : This is a project specifically designed for disaster management.
It is implemented both at the levels of school and community. The main focus is to give training, build capacity and generate awareness among
the students in schools and people in the villages so that they can make better preparations for facing the disaster.
Profile of the Student :The biggest part of the job depends on the intern's motivation, of her/his
dedication to ACID's projects, of her/his enthusiasm and will to work in the field of development and for disadvantaged communities, which
implies to take hardship, to take on challenges, to be innovative and creative. The intern will have to show passion.
Skills and competence :
- Fluency in written and spoken English essential
- Spoken Bengali an asset.
- Post-graduation in Social Work/Rural Development or any other related field.
- Experience in development sector, an asset.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (especially Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint), Internet.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills essential
- Flexibility essential
- Strong documentation and facilitation skills.
- Proven ability to lead, manage and work effectively with others to achieve results.
- Adjustment capability (culture and living conditions).
- Capability to live in a rural area (remote area).
- Knowledge and/or experience of working with a grassroots organization.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of gender, diversity and development issues.
NB :Andrewspalli Centre for Integrated Development (ACID) is a growing organization.
The above mentioned candidate will have lots of opportunities to interact with various organizations and persons from different
parts of the world. It will be an extremely good experience to learn on the job. It will also give great amount of satisfaction
as she/he will see change happening in lives of girls and women in the rural community.
Application :If you are interested, please send you CV/resume and a cover letter, both
in English, to: acid.mgnt@gmail.com or acid.edu@gamail.com
If you have any question, please feel free to contact us.
Cyclone YAAS has devastated the lives of vulnerable and extremely poor communities in Hingalganj and destroyed
infrastructure, thousands of houses, agricultural field, assets, life and livelihoods. People - men, women,
elderly and children are homeless with empty stomach, looking for safer places. Saline water has come inside the
villages and agricultural fields due to breach of embankments in several locations. It’s a very upsetting and
painful scenario; we stand in solidarity with these families and communities..jpg)
Chanda Mondal, her husband and their six years old daughter, live in Dakshin Gobindakati village of Hingalganj
block in North 24 Pargana. Her husband lost his low-salary job and returned lately, since lockdown started.
On the night of the cyclone Amphan they were in their mud-house and at around 1:30 AM, they shifted to a nearby
concrete building to take shelter for the night as the thrashing wind shook their house and the over flown pond
water reached their door-step. Next day morning, they found, their mud house in a crumbled situation. They have
lost most of their belongings along with their daughter's books and essential documents. Now they are living in
a tent made out of tarpauline and can not avail any aid from local government authorities since they have lost
those documents.
A national workshop "Problem of Accessibility in Primary Education by Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward
Classes: A Study in Hingalganj Block" & "Impact Study on Sponsorship Programme of FADV: A Study of their Partner Organizations
in West-Bengal and Assam" organized by the Department of Social Work, Visva-Bharati in association with Fondazione l'Albero
della Vita (FADV) and Andrewspalli Centre for Integrated Development (ACID) on 17th August' 2016 at Conference Hall ,
Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Participation from FADV partner organization, save the children, Students and Professors from
Visva-Bharati University, UNPECT international and other national level NGOs are presented in that workshop. The study report
was also published in this workshop written by Dr. Sukumar Pal and Mr. Neelmani Jaysawal.
A team from Italy namely The Goodfellas Travel Team had visited in our project area from 10th to 11th August to see our livelihood
and sponsorship projects, interacted with project beneficiaries and communities to acquire first hand knowledge on how people are
getting benefited from the interventions. They interacted with the 'Padmabati' Self Help Group in Jogeshganj village and also their
activities like fishing, vegetable cultivation, livestock farming etc. They also visited in our Samsernagar tuition centre, interact
with students and suggest them to learn English for better communication with them.
Mrs. Samprita Sengupta, Programme Managar of the Sponsorship project made monitoring visit in Hingalganj project area. She visited 50
new children house and filled up the bio data form and also taken photographs in Gobindakathi village. She interacted with parents of
the Gobindakathi tuition centre and talk about importance of parental care at home. In Madhavkathi tuition centre she observed teaching
learning method using puzzle, games, and local resources. She taught children spoken English and how they should interact with newcomer.
She had meeting with Sponsorship project team of ACID and set plan of action for the year 2017.
Dr. Maity and Dr. Mondal made monitoring visit of their research project on demonstration of resilient livelihood activities in saline
soil collaboration with ACID. They conducted training on rice and vegetable production in Jogeshganj project site office of ACID. They
organized a demonstration programme on rice seed purification by using water and salt to increase the production of rice. They also made
field visit and interacted with farmers to solve problems regarding vegetable cultivation. They had also conduct meeting with DRR project
coordinator and discuss about vermicompost kit and agricultural survey in the 12 villages of Hingalganj Block.