The village local govt officers and elders are very enthusiastic towards this initiative and many work whenever they can to support the efforts of volunteers and labourers on site. Yearoutindia and its volunteers have built up strong relationships with the tribal communities and volunteers share Sasi's/ Manoj & Anil completed house with his family during their placement and also can now stay in the completed Eco House. This also provides a source of much needed additional income to many tribal women. There are at least 4-6 ongoing house building projects and our recent volunteers Alice & Alastair from UK just completed another sanitation project. Stephanie from US helped with the Eco house and Shyam from London is currently working on house builds, renovations, sanitation projects, water and solar light projects.

Yearoutindia volunteers have also helped develop and implement various small micro credit / loan project to enable the tribal youth to take on group community farming, water pumping and distribution, communal goat farming and implement a new brick making units. Thanks to Michelle - our intern from Canada, we have been able to successfully implement and manage these projects. Various new project including Solar lights, bore wells and health awareness are planned for the coming months.

Following the success of this sanitation project, locals from the nearby mannan village settlement of "Murikattukudi" approached Yearoutindia to extend the program to their settlement. Following a series of successful meetings between Yearoutindia staff, volunteers, local community leaders, Mannan Tribal King, Kozhimala labourers and local villagers this was agreed. As a result the priority list of families in desperate need of adequate sanitation facilities has more than doubled.

Yearoutindia now also work alongside local healthcare officials through volunteers with medical backgrounds and provide medical care to the mannan tribals. Yearoutindia also plans to build a small clinic for the inhabitants of Kozhimala vilage. This project was designed in conjunction wih the villagers following a research conducted by Bryan Shaw - a Yearoutindia volunteer from the US. The medical volunteers will provide much needed diagnosis and preventative treatment to meet the health needs of the village. It will also promote awareness of health issues amongst the locals and their children. This project is now helped by regular contributions by ex-volunteers like Penny Rigby from UK.

This is a challenging project site which require volunteers to be resourceful, committed, self motivated and will definitely involve long hours of work with plenty of excitement and fun. Please note that the project area is remote and basic facilities will be provided by Yearoutindia. Amenities like Internet, ATM's, Fax etc are only available at the nearest town which is 30 minutes drive away.

Program Costs
Prices for individual programs vary. Please click on the links above for a full description or contact a volunteer coordinator.