Volunteer or Intern in India with Seva Mandir

I interned at Seva Mandir for 7 months in the health unit. They prefer long term volunteers because it takes a little while to learn how things are run. Every month I was there, I got better and better at doing my work. There is free housing in dormitories, but I lived with an awesome family. I worked 10-5, 6-days a week. I wrote reports, ran surveys, developed training curricula for health workers and went to the villages to help run and observe health interventions. I got to make a real difference. It was life-changing.

The flip side of this is that you have to be independent. You are there to help out, so it's up to you to find things that need to be done and do them.