World Traveler

Well, It's really going to happen.


I'm (Lord willing) going to India!!!! :)

I'm studying abroad with the Social Work program this winter.
I will be visiting:

-          a leprosy asylum – a community for people with Hansen's disease and their families;

-     the Mahasemam Trust of Madurai a microfinance organization

-          an organization that works with sex workers and provides a HIV/Aids prevention program;

-    The Meenekshi Mission Hospital has 43 specialties including pediatric oncology, palliative care and hospice, Telemedicine, and health camps for poor children.

-          Habitat for Humanity houses built for Mahasemam clients and their families;

-          The Aravind Eye Hospital whose mission is to end unnecessary blindness with a focus on the poor

-          Thalir Thiran Thittm (Aparajitha Foundation), which has developed a life skills education program for children in the 7^th through 12^th grades

Eek :)!!!  I'm extremely excited but also very nervous.  It's going to be a lot of work and I'll see a lot of poverty. 

So that's my exciting news for the day.

In Christ
~Michelle

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