A College Volunteering Programme
Volunteer with GuruJal
Building India's next generation of green leaders.
SKILL · ACT · LEAD · RESTORE
Why volunteer
Real skills. Real impact. Real credentials.
India's water and ecological crisis cannot be solved by governments and NGOs alone. It requires a generation of young people who understand the problem, have real skills to act on it, and are connected to communities where change is needed. GuruJal's volunteer programme is designed to give college students exactly that: not a certificate for attending a session, but real field experience, green skills, community leadership, and a track record of measurable impact.
Our promise to volunteers
Every volunteer engagement at GuruJal is structured to give you a skill, a story, and a credential — something that is genuinely valuable for your career, your community, and your conscience.
How it works
Three levels, feeding into each other
The GuruJal Volunteer Programme is built around three levels of engagement. Put in more hours, take on more responsibility, and unlock deeper mentorship and certification.
- 1
Contributor
2–4 hrs/month
Volunteer badge + event certificate
- 2
Green Champion
6–8 hrs/month
Green Champion certificate + skills training
- 3
Water Ambassador
12+ hrs/month
Full Ambassador certification + GuruJal mentorship + internship priority
Volunteering tracks
Pick a track that fits your skills
Every track ends in a named certificate — a credential you can show for placements, higher education, and the causes you care about.
- A
Digital Storytelling & Social Media
Turn conservation work into compelling stories
- Content creation: Create Instagram reels, LinkedIn posts, newsletters, and short video content documenting GuruJal's field work — water audits, nursery sessions, plantation drives.
- Campaign management: Design and run themed social media campaigns around World Water Day, Earth Day, Monsoon Season, etc.
- Impact documentation: Write field reports and impact stories from GuruJal's school, community, and restoration programmes for use in fundraising and donor reporting.
- Skills gained: Real nonprofit communications experience — portfolio-building content, editorial responsibility, and measurable reach metrics.
Certificate awarded
GuruJal Digital Storyteller Certificate
Direct portfolio credit for communications, journalism, and marketing careers
- B
Campus Ambassador & Outreach
Build GuruJal's presence in your college
- Awareness stalls: Set up GuruJal information and activity stalls at college fests, orientation days, and sustainability events — enrolling new volunteers.
- Milk packet ambassador: Drive milk packet collection in your college, hostel, and home — set up a permanent collection box, track monthly volumes.
- Volunteer onboarding: Be the face of GuruJal in your campus — onboard classmates, run orientation sessions, manage a WhatsApp community.
- College liaison: Coordinate between GuruJal and your college's NSS, NCC, or Environment Club for structured partnership.
Certificate awarded
GuruJal Campus Ambassador
Leadership credential for placements, higher education, and sustainability roles
- C
Crowdfunding for Green Projects
Mobilise resources for restoration
- Tree plantation campaigns: Design and run peer-to-peer crowdfunding campaigns for GuruJal's plantation drives — each tree planted is a measurable outcome.
- Native nursery funding: Raise micro-funds to support seed banks, nursery infrastructure, and native species procurement.
- Donor storytelling: Create compelling impact cases for individual donors — learn the basics of nonprofit fundraising.
- Budget accountability: Learn to track, report, and communicate the use of crowdfunded resources transparently.
Certificate awarded
GuruJal Green Finance Volunteer
Skills transferable to CSR, social enterprise, and impact investing careers
- D
Event Support & Logistics
Power GuruJal's public events
- Plan monthly volunteering events: Support the team to plan monthly volunteering events and outreach for them.
- Urban Adda: Support GuruJal's flagship annual water innovation events — logistics, registration, speaker coordination, social media coverage.
- Plantation drives: Coordinate volunteer teams at large-scale plantation events — site prep, tool management, participant briefing.
- Community water audits: Support GuruJal teams conducting water audits in RWAs and communities — data entry, community mobilisation, logistics.
- School programmes: Assist GuruJal team members during school sessions — co-facilitation, materials prep, student engagement.
Certificate awarded
GuruJal Event & Programme Volunteer
Event management and community mobilisation experience
- E
Native Nursery Volunteering
Grow the forest, hands-on
- Regular nursery sessions: Weekly or fortnightly volunteering at GuruJal's native nurseries — soil preparation, seed sowing, sapling bagging, labelling.
- Species learning: Learn to identify native Aravalli species, understand their ecological roles, and catalogue nursery stock.
- Propagation techniques: Hands-on training in seed germination, cutting propagation, and transplanting — practical botany skills.
- Restoration link: Participate in plantation drives where nursery-grown saplings are planted at restoration sites — close the loop from seed to forest.
Certificate awarded
GuruJal Restoration Volunteer
Field ecology and conservation skills · Priority consideration for WeForWater Fellowship
- F
Citizen Science & Biodiversity Corps
Build the record of what lives at our restoration sites
- Field tools: Use iNaturalist and Merlin Bird ID to document flora and fauna at GuruJal sites.
- Biodiversity records: Build long-term biodiversity records at restoration sites, alongside butterfly and bird counts.
- Impact: Creates long-term ecological monitoring systems that inform how restoration sites are managed over time.
Certificate awarded
GuruJal Citizen Scientist
Field ecology and biodiversity monitoring experience
Ready to get started?
Skill. Act. Lead. Restore.
Write to us with the track you're interested in and your college name, and the GuruJal team will get you started.