Legal aid support
Drafting complaints, preparing RTI applications, accompanying workers to hearings. Law students and practising lawyers. Roughly 6 hours a week, partly in person.
Volunteer
Useful work, not busywork.
We would rather place ten people who stay six months than a hundred who attend one orientation. Every role below is something a team is actively short of.
Open roles
Six things we consistently need.
Time commitments are honest estimates, not minimums we hope you exceed.
Translation and interpretation
Hindi, Bhojpuri, Odia, Bengali, Marathi and Tamil into English and back. Case statements, legal documents and field interviews. Fully remote, flexible hours.
Field documentation
Recording worker statements, photographing conditions, maintaining case files to evidentiary standard. In-district, and requires an orientation before field access.
Communications
Writing, photography, design and video for campaigns and reports. Remote, project-based, and always with consent protocols for anyone appearing in an image.
Community outreach
Running rights-awareness sessions in worker settlements, supporting committee meetings and helping with e-Shram registration drives. Weekend-heavy.
Data and research
Cleaning case data, building the evidence base behind policy briefs, literature review. Remote, and genuinely useful for anyone with a statistics background.
How to join
Five steps, about two weeks.
Nobody gets field or case access before orientation — that protects the workers whose files you would be handling.
- 01
Apply
A short form covering your skills, languages, location and available hours. Takes about five minutes.
- 02
Conversation
A call with the volunteer coordinator to match you to something real rather than something generic. We will tell you if we have nothing suitable.
- 03
Orientation
A session on worker rights basics, confidentiality and safeguarding. Mandatory before any field or case access.
- 04
Placement
You are assigned to a team with a named point of contact. First month is supervised.
- 05
Certification
On completing your committed hours you receive a certificate with a verification code anyone can check independently.
What to expect
Being honest about the work.
Most of it is unglamorous. Case files, phone calls that go unanswered, forms submitted three times, and long waits outside government offices. The dramatic parts — a rescue, a wage recovered — rest entirely on that groundwork.
Some of it is difficult. You will hear accounts of coercion and, occasionally, of violence. We run debriefs after field placements, and nobody is expected to carry that alone.
You will not be doing this unsupervised. Every volunteer has a named staff contact, and the first month is worked alongside someone experienced.
Ready to apply?
The form takes five minutes. If we have nothing that fits, we will tell you straight rather than leaving you on a list.