Message of the Day – Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity. – Hippocrates I got to see the love of medicine and humanity today when Stephen took me to St. Thomas Hospital. It was a substitute for my daily visit to Assisi Illam, and while I missed […]
Message of the Day – Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. – Napoleon Hill Today was a hot day in Chennai, and one that required patience and persistence and then gave perspiration in return. Denise and I began our day before sunrise preparing for a short trip to the Chennai flower, […]
Today was Team #146’s first day together in India: Emily, Jo Carol, Yvonne, and myself. After a FANTASTIC breakfast, Stephen led us through our orientation, which consisted of team introduction, descriptions of our work projects, the weekly schedule, and team goals. Agreeing as a team what we wanted to accomplish throughout the upcoming weeks was […]
We started our day at the Assi Illam day care center, it being our second visit the children were more familiar with us and the warm welcome we received was heartwarming. We sang children rhymes, their favorite for the day being the ABC song. Their excitement and abundant energy was exhilarating especially as we ran […]
Today was one of the most rewarding days on this program. It started in the Assi Illam center, an orphanage that is converted into a day care in the morning to provide an income for the orphanage. When we arrived in the morning the children (all between the ages of 2-4) were excitedly running around […]
Since it was a public Holiday and all the children were away, Stephen arranged for us to help him and his wife sheeba to cover the Earth box , and clean the library in Seams Children Center. We spent the whole morning there and we finished covering and watering the plants and cleaned and organised half […]
We had breakfast then prepared for the morning at Christ King. Sheeba put jasmine flowers in our hair and put a bindi on our forehead. I felt so special and smelled so nice. Today we are responsible for the entire class period (1 hour each). We started with the 5th grade class. The children greeted […]
We rose early to have breakfast before we began our trip to Kanchipuram. After a breakfast of boiled egg, Appam with sweet milk, we loaded our small bags into Stephen’s Tata car for our adventure. We stopped and looked through the fence at the memorial garden, a stop that brought memories of the contemplative walk I […]
Message of the Day: “Travel is more than seeing sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living” –Miriam Beard (Madeline Chastain) Today was our first day to not be with the kids because we don’t work on the weekends. Although we missed them, it was a […]
Ambedkar Jayanti is celebrated as birth anniversary of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, who was born on 14th April, 1891. It is a National Holiday in India. The saying among us is Gandhi got us Independence but Ambedkar got us our Freedom. He is regarded among the lower castes as an champion who fought against the caste system […]