The city is ever-bustling with organisations doing work that’s socially and environmentally valuable. Many of these organisations are volunteer-friendly, offering you a chance to donate your time and skills while gaining some enrichment and valuable life experiences. Here’s our list of NGOs to volunteer at in Bangalore.
13 NGOs In Bangalore To Volunteer At And Support The Community
Overview
Akshara
A non-profit dedicated to providing quality education, Akshara works with schools in Karnataka across a range of programs, variously focusing on supporting English teaching, reinventing Maths education, or encouraging reading. Volunteers can participate in their events, help connect Akshara to potential supporters, aid fundraising, and more.
Google Rating: 4.4/5
Timings: 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM, Weekends closed
Contact: 091480 39738
Social Media: Instagram
LBB Tip: Donate here!
CUPA (Compassion Unlimited Plus Action)
This well-established animal welfare organisation runs seven centres in Bangalore, including a veterinary hospital and a geriatric centre. How can you possibly say no to them cute puppies? They have a Corporate Social Responsibility programme under which you can help with donations, sponsorships or passive adoption of their shelter animals, employee volunteering activities or group visits at their shelters, along with hosting awareness programmes, fundraisers or adoption drives for employees or on corporate campuses.
Social Media: Instagram, Website
LBB Tip: Donate here!
Hasiru Dala
There’s no getting around the fact that Bangalore has a pretty stinking garbage problem, which is closely linked to the lack of recognition of the work of waste-pickers. Hasirudala is one of the organisations that tackles this head-on by aiming to improve living conditions for the city’s unorganised workers (waste pickers) as well as provide waste management, recycling, and training services to the city at large. They invite volunteers who would like to help set up Hasirudala-enabled waste-management solutions in homes or workplaces or support their Dry-Waste Collection Centres.
Google Rating: 4.7/5
Timings: 9 AM to 6 PM
Contact: 097421 12362
CRY
This child-rights organisation, started by seven volunteers, has a thriving volunteer program, reporting a count of over 3,500 volunteers across its centres in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, and Kolkata. CRY volunteers can contribute through a range of campaigns, raising awareness and contributing skills and expertise.
Google Rating: 4.2/5
Contact: 080 2548 8574
People for Animals
People for Animals rescues injured animals, including endangered species, in and around Bangalore. You can volunteer in the rescue node; in awareness-raising; in administrative tasks such as the maintenance of their website; in fundraising, grant-writing, fostering, and more. They require a minimum commitment of six months, as well as one shift per week.
Google Rating: 4.8/5
Timings: 9 AM to 6 PM
Contact: 080 2861 1986
Blank Noise
The community project built to address street harassment grew out of our city and is entirely volunteer-run. You can sign up to be an Action Hero, making you a proactive participant in ending sexual violence. Blank Noise Internship is for a total duration of four months (three months at the Bangalore office and one month is independent). On the other side, a Blank Noise Volunteer position is a three-month commitment, which can be renewed. All Action Hero Volunteers must attend weekly Work Jams every Saturday, in addition to other days they may choose to volunteer on. Head to their website for more information.
MAD - Make A Difference
Started by youth, for the youth, Make A Difference (MAD) is a non-profit organisation that started in 2006. All they ask is that you spend between two and ten hours to help children in orphanages and street shelters. Reaching out to about 4,000 kids across 23 cities as of now, volunteering is rather fulfilling — mentoring, teaching, and interacting with the kids to build a support system for them during their childhood.
Headstreams
Different strokes for different folks is what Headstreams believes in as they work with vulnerable communities in urban Bangalore. Focusing especially on children, adolescents, and women, their program helps provide a safe space to promote mental health through play.
Google Rating: 4.6/5
Contact: 080 4120 1071
Timings: 9 AM to 6 PM, closed on Sundays and Mondays
Social Media: Instagram
LBB Tip: Use this form to volunteer with them!
Youth For Parivarthan
Tired of complaining about our problems and waiting for change? Youth For Parivarthan is your answer as they’re proactive in efforts to make a ‘Swacch Bharat’ in all senses of the term, no strings attached. Involving other aspects of self-reliance, you’ve probably seen the fruits of their labour on many illegal dumping spots and flyover pillars. They spruce up the area with some art as well, so if you’ve always wanted to paint walls, here’s your calling.
Google Rating: 4.9/5
Timings: 9 AM to 5 PM, only on weekends
Volunteer Form: Here!
Social Media: Instagram
The Ugly Indian
Started as a one-person effort and not restricting themselves to the formal category of an NGO, The Ugly Indian questions the premise of what we think is the root cause of trash in the city. From spot fixing pain-stained walls to cleaning up entire illegal dump yards, the Ugly Indian operates on the belief that change comes with us citizens taking ownership of keeping the streets and city clean.
U&I
Requiring only two and a half hours of your time per week, U&I has mentoring and non-formal education (tutoring post school, computer skills, communication skills) programs for underprivileged women and school-going children who are mentally challenged or come from low-income backgrounds. Or you can teach them English to empower and equip them with communication skills to help them become independent and self-reliant.
Google Rating: 4.6/5
Timings: 10 AM to 6 PM, Weekends closed
Contact: 095350 86449
A Rocha
A wildlife conservation non-profit, the environmental education organisation at the fringe of Bannerghatta National Park is heavily research-based. Recognising the need to educate and inform communities that share borders with wildlife, A Rocha conducts outreach and sensitisation programs in schools and community centers around the park borders. They presently have volunteers from India and abroad actively participating in research surveys, elephant censuses, and other programs. If you are a graduate, post-graduate, or a professional interested in researching an area of your interest, they provide the opportunity for you to do so.
Google Rating: 4.7/5
Contact: 098866 72041
Aravani Art Project
Aravani Art Project is a woman and transgender collective NGO that facilitates, encourages, and helps them create public art, wall art. Through public/wall art, they help create awareness about the transgender community and the relationship between a woman and transgender. They also conduct panel discussions and meet-ups and participate in theatre festivals and perform street theatre. These women and the transgender community create beautiful pieces of art that one can buy and add to their living space.
Social Media: Instagram, Website
LBB Tip: You can contact them here.
