Top NGOs in Delhi to Volunteer for High School Students
The following NGOs based in Delhi provide some valuable volunteering opportunities and volunteering programs that you can do from the comfort of your house remotely. If you are looking for community service options to enhance your college applications, check out this list.
Mobile Creches is an organisation that seeks to create a caring world for young children who belong to marginalised communities. They advocate against violation of children’s rights and also perform grassroot level intervention, through their volunteers.
How do they do it
They have set up 9:00 to 17:00 day-care centres at construction sites in Delhi for children of migrant labourers which is open six days a week. They have creche programmes on site so that the parents can work without having to worry about their children!
Their Impact
They have set up 1000+ day care centres, trained 6500+ women and have 250+builder partnerships.
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Baala is a unique impact-oriented organisation that is committed to destigmatizing menstruation. Baala specifically tackles with the expense of modern sanitary products, problems surrounding disposal and lack of awareness.
How do they do it
They conduct workshops and distribute reusable sanitary products. They have innovated and created ‘Baala pads’. These pads are environmentally sustainable reusable sanitary pads of the finest quality.
They offer plenty of volunteering and community service programs for those interested. You can work with them through our Internship Accelerator program.
Their Impact
They have impacted 1,30,000 women and girls, distributed 3,90,000 pads and have prevented 2,60,000 trucks of menstrual waste from being deposited in our landfills.
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Goonj is another organisation that aims to increase awareness about menstrual health and hygiene. They distribute menstrual products across India and have conducted various workshops to increase awareness amongst the most backward communities in India.
How they do it
They conduct initiatives such as ‘Not Just a Piece of Cloth’ through which they increased access to sanitary products and spread awareness. They motivated urban masses to contribute clothes for making sanitary pads for women who struggle for it. They offer community service opportunities and summer internship programs for those who want to get involved. Last year our Young Changemaker Dia, raised 50,000 rupees for the campaign
Their Impact:
Between 2018-19, their teams held menstrual awareness sessions with more than 400 adolescent girls and women in slums, shelter homes, government schools in Delhi/NCR alone.
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Protsahan is an organisation that primarily works with children who have been subject to abuse, specifically adolescent girls. They strive to break the intergenerational cycle of childhood abuse and poverty prevalent in underserved communities in India.
How they do it
Through initiatives like Breaking the Silence, Protsahan fights against Child Abuse. They partner with organisations that work directly with children to conduct workshops that teach children about sensitive topics such as child laws and more. They offer many organised and structured volunteering programs. They also focus on education volunteering.
Their Impact
They reached out to 11,000 girls and boys and educated them about social issues like child marriage by using visual media. Their programs such as ‘Project Innocence’ have been extremely successful in raising awareness among 19,800 girls.
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Due to lack of the availability of medical facilities in rural areas, the rural poor tend to come to cities like Delhi to seek medication. Uday foundation helps these people and their loved ones by offering them support through different means. Their work also inculcates the UN sustainable development goals.
How they do it
Using their volunteers, they conduct food drives outside hospitals and winter drives for the homeless. They collect funds, blankets and clothes for the needy. They distribute these resources to the needy and offer other basic facilities including shelter. Contact them if you want to get involved in their community service programs.
Their Impact
Uday Foundation is currently feeding 120000 underprivileged patients & caregivers living outside hospitals every month.
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OSCAR foundation is an NGO that uses football as a tool to empower underprivileged children and youth with skills such as leadership and teamwork, using football. This is another organisation that contributes towards achieving the UN Sustainable Development goals by aiming to alleviate lack of education amongst the poor.
How they do it:
They host a variety of programmes such as the Football and Life Skills Programme. Through this program, the organisation delivers structured sessions using football-oriented games designed to teach children essential skills. They have an Education Programme and the Young Leaders Programme that you might be interested in. Our Young Changemakers have raised funds, crowdsourced shoes, created educational content and much more!
Their Impact
12000+ children benefited from these sessions, across India. A hundred percent of these children completed primary education, 86% pursued higher education and 80% graduated from their studies.
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Helping the very poor and needy is at the very core of Utthan Trust’s values. They perform a variety of activities such as hosting food distribution camps, health check-up camps and sanitary distribution camps.
How they do it
They collect donations from the privileged and distribute these resources to the needy by hosting food drives and more. By doing so, they are contributing towards the UN sustainability goals by helping alleviate hunger and poverty. Contact them directly if you want to participate in their volunteering programs.
Their Impact
Raised over 4,50,000 INR and used it to conduct food distribution campaigns, health checkup camps and stationary distribution for the young.
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Their primary objectives are to uplift the less privileged children in rural areas, empower women and create awareness amongst the illiterate about family welfare, health and personal hygiene.
How they do it
They have set up a school that offers education for children up to 8th standard.
They provide vocational training once a week after school. They also conduct skills development programs for women.
They offer free medical examinations and medicines for school children.
They provide a number of community service options for those who are looking. Their areas of focus are education, vocational training and healthcare.
Their Impact
They have established a BDP school in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, from where more than 1000 students have graduated so far.
Over 150 women have benefitted from their vocational training programs.
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HelpAge India aims to serve the elderly’s needs in a holistic manner by enabling them to live an active, dignified and healthier life.
How they do it
They collect money and charitable donations. Using this, they offer free cataract surgeries, provide old age homes and offer livelihood support to the elderly.
They offer both internship opportunities and volunteering options for highschool students and others.
Their Impact
35,000 cataract surgeries have been conducted so far.
Supports 300 old age homes.
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It is a NGO started by the corporate giant Zomato, that works to eradicate hunger, malnutrition and food wastage in India.
How they do it
They recruit volunteers to do grassroot level work such as collecting donations and distributing food.
They partner with other corporations to help them amplify their impact.
They partner with NGOs to help them identify the right beneficiaries.
Feeding India are a new gen organisation that provide a lot of volunteering and internship programs that allow people to engage in community service.
Their Impact
They have served more than 123 million meals since 2014, across 37 cities.
All of the above mentioned organisations contribute towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals in one way or another. If you are looking to change the world for the better, or engage in community service, just be productive or enrich your college applications, these are the NGOs you should start looking at.
