our Program Leaders first challenged us to immerse ourselves in the community by talking to as many people as we could about Sikhism and what different religious and cultural symbols and rituals mean
Do you have what it takes to be thrown into a mission where you must get locals to partake in lending you crabs for crab racing pleasure, fillet a fish, or roam around the unknown market of Elmina to find the one and only fisher
“Because I want to”. It’s as simple as that.
We’ll be volunteering with Patiala School for the Deaf and Blind in India.
As you are all well aware, Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of the Caribbean as well as the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States in late October and its effects continue to affect many lives. Operation Groundswell is teaming up with Occupy Sandy to support the relief effort
Perhaps the greatest event of the week was our fútbol tourney…
The last few days was spent tucked away in an old German castle
As we are getting close to the halfway point of the trip, none of us knows if we feel like we just arrived or if we have been here forever. One thing is for sure, Haiti has taught everyone to live in the present and nothing else! Between our time working hard on our project, learning to speak Kreyol, enduring long tap-tap rides and experiencing too many truly Haitian moments to count, we have learned a lot while becoming an OG family.
As our crew hiked up the steep hills in the sweltering heat for 6 hours, the intensity of our experience over the next week started to sink in.
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