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Field Trip Part I: Girl Power
Yesterday I finally got to visit one of the BPR-funded water projects! After months of tireless work with the Youth Board in Boulder a few years back, I finally got to meet the people who benefited from the projects that the awesome young people I had the pleasure of working with had helped to fundraise [...]
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A Volunteer’s Adventures Part Three: A Day in the Life
In addition to learning thousands of things about water and sanitation, I am also having the greatest time learning about Indian office life and sipping chai about six times a day! I usually wake up around seven to the lovely sound of water buffalo and goats cruising along on the road outside my window. I [...]
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A Volunteer’s Adventures Part Two: Hydrogeology and Golpapur
Not only is the campus absolutely gorgeous, but all of the staff and volunteers I’ve met working for and with Gram Vikas are incredible as well! In addition to the 500 or so employees of Gram Vikas, various contacts from all kinds of organizations come through Mohuda all the time. For a traveler exploring the [...]
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Adventures in Volunteering
Experiencing reality in the field of water - jumping off from the Rocky Mountains in Colorado to land in rural Orissa on the Gram Vikas campus.
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Field Trip Part II: I <3 Water