Internship Program

Sakthi – Vidiyal is committed to the promotion of budding social work professionals through providing space for field exposure and personalized experience of working with children. A number of young professionals have been qualified through the internship programme since from the early days of Vidiyal. Today many city colleges offer courses in Social Work, Sociology, Community Health, Human Resource Management, Child Care and Psychology. There is a huge need for providing quality field exposure to these students. Vidiyal works closely with the academic institutions and provide one day orientation to students from various disciplines. Opportunities for internship are always available for those who have the interest to work with children.

During the placement period, students are exposed to a range of sessions including NGO Management, Fund raising, Organizing programmes, field visits, ethics in social work, child protection standards, child policy, etc., Specific requirements of the academic institutions related to internship is met.

Vidiyal also attracts international students on internship. Foreign students are enabled to adapt to the Indian context through personalized care and support. Interns are expected to adapt to the time schedule of Vidiyal, six days a week. Interns are expected to adhere to the Child Policy of our organization without fail. Skills and talents of interns are always linked to needs of children in the field. Internship at Vidiyal would be a life time experience. Most of our past interns would vouch this.