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Trainings in India

SOLIDARITÉ provides courses in Southern India about topics such as “Rethinking development and discovering the rural world of the South” or “becoming an eco-actor”.

Every summer since 2003, a group of about fifteen people is hosted for 15 days within a post-development training centre. Then the participants choose one of our partners to carry out a period of field training, during two to six months.

Our training and documentation centre in India, the IITPD, has been completely reorganised and its fields of action increased. As a result of this restructuration, the team of Solidarité India chose to rename the centre. It is now called “CATAMARAN”.

From IITPD to CATAMARAN

The ITTPD opened its doors in Chettikuppam in 2003. This training and information centre is not only for professionals but also for any one interested in alternative development (students, coordinators, social workers, members of international solidarity organisations, ...). It has a network of international searchers and social workers and is a resource center on post-development.

The new centre Catamaran has broadened its actions early 2012 with the addition of new activities, such as ones related to environmental awareness.

Since 2003, over 3000 social workers from India and Europe, and more than a hundred European and Canadian students have already called on us.

Catamaran centre

What is the purpose of a post development research center ?

It is widely agreed that the western development model has failed to meet the needs of the most impoverished. The gap between rich and poor countries has continued to widen.

In 1960, developed countries were 20 times richer than the developing countries, in 1982 they were 42 times richer and this tendency continues to grow.

Therefore the training center is the ideal place for students, searchers and social workers to meet around a common theme : What are the alternative actions to be undertaken for our socioeconomic environment ? Propose, analyze, adapt itself and act for the most deprived persons.

The aim is to sensitize men and women to other ways of considering the world, alternative ways of life and to rethink the notion of development.

 

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Internship in India

Every year since 2003, SOLIDARITÉ offers students internship positions in India to complete their studies. This experience gives them theoretical and practical knowledge on a wide variety of subjects such as international solidarity, post-development, access to land, organic farming, micro credit and savings, biodiversity, food sovereignty, ecology and environment.

Each internship comprises two parts:

- the first one (15 days) at the training centre

- the second one (several months) on immersion in a project.

The internships are validated by an « International certificate on post-development study».


Group average 15 students
Registration : resume in english or french along with a cover letter outlining your project. Contact: recrutement solidarite.asso.fr

••• Provisional programs •••

- "Rethinking development and discovering the rural south" from the 1st to the 15th of July, 2013, see the provisional program here.

- "Become an eco-actor" from the 1st to the 15th of august, 2013, see the provisional program here.

Training part

••• Subjects discussed •••



- « Development in question » and its alternative post-development

- Rural India

- Issues on land, water and forest resources

- Environmental problems, biodiversity and renewable energies

- The non-violent approach

- Women self-help groups

- Intercultural
 

••• Practical application •••

The interns will visit projects in the field that are implemented by our local partner organisations:

- Organic agriculture and village self-sufficiency

- Discovering Women self-help groups 

- Landscape studies and meeting with the locals

- Biodiversity: mangrove forest and marine biodiversity

- Renewable energies

- Ecotourism

The interns will also do practical group work (organic agriculture, composting, cleaning and waste management, pathway rehabilitation, water storage, reservoirs, etc.)

The immersion: from 2 to 6 months

Then, following the choice of the interns, they integrate the team of one of our organisation’s partners, alone or in duo, to take field training from 2 to 6 months.

SOLIDARITÉ can propose internship themes to students who hope for but internship topics proposed by the students themselves, depending on their studies and their wishes are favoured and encouraged.

Few examples of possible missions :



- COMMUNICATION-MARKETING: support to the communication and marketing study about the development of ecotourism activities within the Catamaran centre ;

- MONITORING AND FIELD STUDY: monitoring of the « The children of Arsenic » project, support to the development of a women union, other missions within the training centres for social workers and NGOs ;

- AGRICULTURE: discovery of organic agriculture’s methods with our partner NAVDANYA and its « Seeds of hope » project ;

- EDUCATION: monitoring of several classes within a project on environmental awareness and biodiversity protection ;

- PROJECT MANAGEMENT: field study or evaluation in order to realize a new project ;

- RESEARCH & FIELD STUDY: these missions require good notions on regional languages. Research on the job possibilities, the advantages and inconvenients of the NREGA law, study of villages in the zone (examples of micro-enterprises’ success).

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Beach Beach Catamaran Garden Iguana Working! Conference room Conference room Beach Fire camp Local team Inside garden Inside garden Local village Volunteers at a local village

Attached documents

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Infos +

The inscriptions for 2013 are now opened! This year, two internships are organized :
- "Rethinking development and discovering the rural south" from the 1st to the 15th of July, 2013.
- "Become an eco-actor" from the 1st to the 15th of august, 2013.

Your application at : recrutement solidarite.asso.fr



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