Community projects

Living in the heart of some of the most remote areas in India, these community projects give volunteers a unique opportunity to become immersed in a rural village community, experiencing new culture, food and ways of working. As a volunteer you will be helping to improve quality of life and basic facilities such as clean water and education.

Here are some examples of volunteer projects you may be working on. Please be aware that these may change and are just a guide to the types of community projects we work on during a Raleigh expedition

Multimoola community project
Volunteers working on this community project will be camping in the local village and working together to construct a 765 sq ft primary school. This will serve the children of Muttilmoola village families, alongside a wider education development plan which includes the training and education of teachers and educational materials for the school and scholarships for the students. In addition a number of additional infrastructure facilities will be constructed for the tribal village people.

The indigenous community of Multimoola live in substandard conditions resulting in poor health. By constructing a school building, volunteers working on this project will be helping to improve education among the community. As a result of this community project, the government will consider implementing an electricity infrastructure.

Hosaheggudilu community projects
These community projects are part of a six-year intervention, which started in June 2009, to develop an innovative and replicable model for improving the livelihood opportunities of vulnerable scheduled tribal communities in nine villages in HD Kote Taluk, Mysore District, through sustainable and equitable use of resources. Families from nine communities will benefit from the project and each family will be assisted to develop one acre of horticulture plantation. Raleigh volunteers will provide support to establish the horticultural infrastructure by planting cash crops of mango and amla fruit, creating contour bunding to retain monsoon rains; creating agricultural water storage tanks and constructing vermi-composting units.

Raleigh volunteers will be sleeping in a school and eating locally cooked food. They will work with local families, assisting them in developing one acre plots, planting Mango/Amla and hedge rows and developing Irrigation and composting systems. By working on this project, volunteers will be helping them families to provides high value, high nutrition crops for consumption and for sale in the nearby market towns.

All of our volunteer projects are sustainable and genuinely needed by the communities we work in. Find out more about how we plan our projects and our project partners in India