Volunteer opportunities at Pardada Pardadi 

Annupshahr is located about 100 miles East of Delhi, in the State of Uttar Pradesh, and by car will take about 3 hours. PPES will arrange to pick you up at the Delhi airport and provide meals and lodging while in Delhi. After a day in Delhi, adjusting to the time change and sensory overload, transportation will be provided to Pardada Pardadi. Meals and lodging while at the school will be at the Guest house, or Sam Singh’s home. While in Annupshahr, you will spend time at the school, interacting with the students, teachers and administrators. We will visit villages, and the homes of our girls, so you can see what their lives are about.  Annupshahr is located on the Ganges River, a river with great significance to Hindus, so you won’t want to miss an evening boat ride on the Ganges. Also of interest will be our newly opened health center, production operations, community toilet complex, self-help groups and dairy best practices groups. The village of Annupshahr is also a must see, a short walk from the school, where shops and stalls sell everything you can imagine, and not imagine.   For those with a medical background, you will find work at our new health center very eye opening and rewarding. We will set up medical camps in nearby villages as well.   We are always looking for English speakers to sit in, participate in or teach our conversational English classes. Also if you have a particular teaching expertise, you can volunteer in any of our classes, K through 12. In the past, volunteers have built toilets, taught EMT classes, assisted with girl sponsor communications, collected survey data, helped with medical clinics, written procedure manuals, helped out with the library and introduced the students to classical music. The opportunities are endless and we encourage all visitors to participate, whether for an hour, a day, a week or longer. A volunteer manual will give you information on longer term projects. When your time at the school is over we will spend a day in Agra, the site of the Taj Mahal, one of the man-made wonders of the world. Our goal is to give you the opportunity to learn about and become a part of the PPES family.