It is possible to be a volunteer teacher and/or teacher aid with MGS, preferable for several months. You can teach or assist in teaching different subjects, interact with the children, practice music, design dances or plays, sport - too much to mention. In return you have an unforgettable experience of rural India with all its beauty and simpleness, great interaction with inspiring children - all while you’re carefully looked after. You can read read some of the stories of past volunteers. Or directly contact Paul David Rees.

Since 2000, several volunteers have been going to MGS

From September 2007, Mio, Robert and Arno spent several months with MGS

In school I have many buddies and three of them are called Anwar Pasha, Mohammed Pasha and John Pasha. Often I sit with them during lunch and every time they get they come to me and hold my hand. They are my small bodyguards, my big protectors and my great brothers. We made a pact together. As all three of them have as a second name Pasha, I also have to be called Pasha so we changed my name to Robert Pasha. Now we are the four musketeers.
Maybe you know but here your last name is an initial. The Indians never ask you for your family name or your last name, no they ask you for your initial. So I adapt myself to this new habit to. When someone asks me my initial I don’t say anymore that I don’t have one I just say W. and afterwards when they ask me its meaning it I explain to them it is Wester. The children love the fact that I am becoming a real Indian and I love the fact that I am seen as a real Indian. This means to me I am integrating. I have been to many countries in the world but India has the leading position. Read more.

Stefan spent 5 months as a volunteer in 2000, and returned for 2 weeks in August 2002

Very special to be back. I directly went for a walk through the village and the children were very happy, some astonished, to see me again. For me a very special experience. Great to see how they’ve grown, and a lot has changed, both in MGS and India.

Many small children have enrolled, and some older ones. Last year’s tenth grade students are now studying in Khammam, at intermediate college, to prepare for higher education. Good to see how they have grown and developed, and what possibilities they have. All of the students’ English has improved a lot, and more importantly, they’ve become more motivated to study and behave better. It’s therefore not very difficult to awaken their interest for different subjects. The past two weeks I’ve taken a couple of lessons every day or helped teacher with lessons. I was positively surprised that all students from the higher grades voluntarily came to school at 6 pm to attend my lesson about astronomy, on the school’s roof, with a telescope. Two and a half hours were over just like that, as they kept on asking questions.

On my last afternoon we could play an exciting and relaxing game of cricket, with teachers vs student, which was a nice goodbye for me.

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