I am finally back in Tallahassee and settled into the new school year. Which means that I am faced with the daunting task of mentally and physically processing the things that happened this summer. I have hardly looked through my 500 GBs of pictures and videos, I suppose I'm putting it off to avoid admitting that it's over. But it's that time. The time for reflection where we all have to put into words something that could never be explained.
Katrina and I have been thinking tirelessly about India, and have come to some conclusions regarding the complexities of the project we are putting together. Our anthropology research shed light on the values of the people of Pamohi. We were particularly interested in their value of education. Parijat's philosophies (as well as our own) indicate that education is really the only way to break the generation-long cycle of poverty that plagues low-income families of rural India. We used our research to inform our project, to apply our skills in the most efficient and fruitful manner.
We recognized the potential for growth in both the volunteer program and the student body involvement at Parijat, so we left a volunteer resource that will assist future volunteers and help them continue the lessons and projects we started (such as art, photography, and fundraising programs). We learned that the only way to maintain a truly sustainable program is by connecting past and future volunteers so that we can all work together to help Parijat. We also helped start the first ever club, called Parijat Youth Club, that will serve many purposes at the school. PYC consists of a group of local volunteers and older students who will connect with future volunteers and help them start and continue sustainable programs at Parijat. They will allow the students to participate in organizing events and after-school activities, and they will ultimately take on the responsibility of extra-curricular activities, relieving Uttam (the principal and founder) of that particular duty so that he can focus on the growing school. So, we collaborated with our fellow local volunteers, who go to college in Guwahati city, and our fellow international volunteers, and decided that PYC could be really beneficial to Parijat and the students.
Our personal project, however, will consist of a documentary about Parijat, their mission, and what it is like to be a volunteer in Pamohi. We will also create an ethnography which will be accompanied by the photographs we took. The ethnography will attempt to break down the complexities of the social problems in Pamohi and shed light on art and education as a tool for communicating and breaking down barriers. And finally, we will take our documentary and our ethnography and use them to create articles that will serve to inform the public about Parijat and other similar missions that need attention.
We will be presenting our ethnography and photographic essay along with a shortened version of our documentary at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on October 1st and will be publishing the rest of our project soon after.
I have learned so much through this experience— about myself and about the world. I'm looking forward to putting everything into words so that I can finally have an answer for people when they ask me how India went.
Katrina and I have been thinking tirelessly about India, and have come to some conclusions regarding the complexities of the project we are putting together. Our anthropology research shed light on the values of the people of Pamohi. We were particularly interested in their value of education. Parijat's philosophies (as well as our own) indicate that education is really the only way to break the generation-long cycle of poverty that plagues low-income families of rural India. We used our research to inform our project, to apply our skills in the most efficient and fruitful manner.
We recognized the potential for growth in both the volunteer program and the student body involvement at Parijat, so we left a volunteer resource that will assist future volunteers and help them continue the lessons and projects we started (such as art, photography, and fundraising programs). We learned that the only way to maintain a truly sustainable program is by connecting past and future volunteers so that we can all work together to help Parijat. We also helped start the first ever club, called Parijat Youth Club, that will serve many purposes at the school. PYC consists of a group of local volunteers and older students who will connect with future volunteers and help them start and continue sustainable programs at Parijat. They will allow the students to participate in organizing events and after-school activities, and they will ultimately take on the responsibility of extra-curricular activities, relieving Uttam (the principal and founder) of that particular duty so that he can focus on the growing school. So, we collaborated with our fellow local volunteers, who go to college in Guwahati city, and our fellow international volunteers, and decided that PYC could be really beneficial to Parijat and the students.
Our personal project, however, will consist of a documentary about Parijat, their mission, and what it is like to be a volunteer in Pamohi. We will also create an ethnography which will be accompanied by the photographs we took. The ethnography will attempt to break down the complexities of the social problems in Pamohi and shed light on art and education as a tool for communicating and breaking down barriers. And finally, we will take our documentary and our ethnography and use them to create articles that will serve to inform the public about Parijat and other similar missions that need attention.
We will be presenting our ethnography and photographic essay along with a shortened version of our documentary at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on October 1st and will be publishing the rest of our project soon after.
I have learned so much through this experience— about myself and about the world. I'm looking forward to putting everything into words so that I can finally have an answer for people when they ask me how India went.
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