Internship Experience @ Uday Foundation, New Delhi: Rescue and Relief Work for Flood Victims

Name, College, Year of Study, Email ID

Akshay Soni, Amity Law School Lucknow, 4th year, akshaysoni44@gmail.com

Name of Organisation, Location, Team Strength

Uday Foundation, New Delhi, 6-8 people.

Application Process

They approached me for providing help and support to Uttarakhand tragedy victims in June, 2013.

Duration of internship and timings

18 days, 24 hours.

First impression, first day formalities, infrastructure

First impression was divine, it felt nice to see the passion with which they were working for flood and raid victims of Uttarakhand.

Before taking us to Uttarakhand for rescue and relief operation they made us sign an undertaking that if anything would happen to us they won’t be responsible.

There was no infrastructure as such we went in a DCM with food and sanitary items.

Main tasks

Rescue and relief work in remote and least reachable villages of Uttarakhand.

Work environment and people

We were not in the state of mind to think about work environment or people.

Stipend

No Stipend

Biggest Lessons

Nothing is more relieving than working for a humanitarian cause.