Joe in India 2015

International Citizen Service with Restless Development as a team leader. Here you will find pics and videos of my journey!

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Climate change Event. We raised awareness of what climate change is, the effects of it, what the youth can do yo help and made them sign a poster to promise to make change.

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Today the team plan for World AIDS Day on the 1st December 2015.

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Today we climed a 500 meter hill.

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Indian wedding! And some of our team!

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Arts and crafts in the youth recsorce centre!

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Today we went to a wedding. We got up at 4am and got the bus bus at 5am. We gave a gift of tea cups and plates, the are very pretty and I hope the cupple enjoy them. We then sat down for a huge meal served on a banana leaf.

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Getting the kitchen garden ready. We we plant for and plants. This is to help drain water in order to stop mosquitoes breeding. The next picture is where I am staying, chill time on the roof. Youth Empowerment Day last week! We gave speaches on the sustainable development goals, Restless Development and how what we do is part of global change as well as local.

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Wow lots of chilli in Nimmiyambat local market.

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First pic we are out side an all boys school where we will teach livelyhoods and health sessions. The 2nd pic we are out side the youth recsorce centre. Here out of school youth as well as school youth can come and get computer skills and we can teach our livelyhoods and health sessions.

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Lots of animals walking around town. Close to the family who cook for us they dry lots of peanuts to sell. And not forgetting the beautiful mountains.

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Sunset last night in Chennai. My new bed in placement :).

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Host family children, family friends and Restless Volunteers. In our new placement Alangayam.

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Went shopping yesterday and got myself a new shirt. Costing 500 rupee that's £5.

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Sometimes we use banana leaves as plates.

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Indian team leaders! 😊

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Typical meal I have been having in India so far.