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About India - Africa and Asia Venture

About India

This extraordinary country has incredible diversity, from the towering silence of snowbound peaks to the lap of waves on coral shores, via the cacophony of noisy, frantic cities.

Hot deserts, cold deserts, fertile flood plains, tea plantation covered hills, thousands of different people, languages, ancient cultures and religions. New wealth but also staggering poverty, both in the cities and in the countryside, where we offer gap year projects and volunteering opportunities in the Darjeeling hills of India.

The India 'Lepchas' Venture

Volunteering in India with AV helps support the Indigenous Lepcha Association in their efforts to retain their ancient culture. Living in a Lepcha village at around 1500 - 2000m, your volunteer project will include helping with subsistence farming on tiny terraced fields of rice, ginger and spices. You will teach English in the village culture centre and in tiny local schools for three months, living with a Lepcha family for true cultural immersion.

The India 'Darjeeling' Venture

Three months living among near to the town of Kalimpong or Mirik in the Darjeeling hills. The people and schools of this area are almost all Nepali and it is amongst them that you will live and work whilst volunteering in India with AV, teaching English to some of the friendliest people on earth.