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Winter in the Himalayas- McLeod Ganj

Time Frame: December 8- January 8

Letters: C, A, S.

C- Traveling is often born out of the bounds of creative exploration and requires both the curiosity to pique someone’s interest and the drive to see it through.

A- This project does not only imply that we’ll be informed about the tibetan refugee situation in McLeod, but what we can do (and hopefully will be able to do) to help them; as little as we can do, we’ll de wholeheartedly.

S- The whole reason for our travel to India is to help however we can. We’ll be teaching monks and the oldest of the children how to speak English and Spanish as well providing phys ed to the youngest members of the community. Furthermore, anything that is needed of us, we’ll try to accomlish to the best of our abilities.

When I first heard of the volunteering opportunity in India, I was weary of filling in the format application for taking part of it, but it has undoubtedly been one of the best desitions I’ve taken. We knew we would be working in close quarters with the Tibetan community exiled in Northern India, but what we never imagined was just how much this trip would affect us.

Rogpa is a Tibetan daycare that survives on donations and the work of both local and foreign volunteers. The help kitchen and volunteering centre that took us in in Daramshala, Lha, often sends volunteers their way. On arriving, several of my companions decided to work in the kitchen or language centre but the moment I heard about the children I fell in love with the project and lost no time in signing up as a Rogpa volunteer.

I’d worked with children before, even taught karate for close to two years, but Rogpa was an entirely new experience. First of all, I had never worked with such young children and neither had my companions, which made us nervous at first, as did the fact there was little of a common language between the children and us. The first days were specially hard, but we soon got a grasp on some basic Tibetan to help us communicate. As the full-time, Tibetan volunteers began to warm up to us and the more we grew attached to the children, the easier it became to learn about and be welcomed in the community. In Rogpa we did everything, from changing diapers to learning to dance, and we loved our time there, learning all we could.

The knowledge of the situation in Tibet and the precarious position of its language and cultural heritage are things we brought back to Mexico with us, inseparable from the children we cared for and the one-on-on conversation partners that became life-long friends.

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Winter in the Himalayas- McLeod Ganj

Time Frame: December 8- January 8

Letters: C, A, S.

C- Traveling is often born out of the bounds of creative exploration and requires both the curiosity to pique someone’s interest and the drive to see it through.

#C #A #S #McLeod #CAS Proyects

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