Serve in India
Service Corps Stories
Puja Gupta (Education – Bodh Shiksha Samiti, Jaipur)
When I first got accepted into the American Indian Foundation’s Service Corps Fellowship with a position at an education NGO, I didn’t know what to expect. I had no particular desire to work in education, nor had I any real experience in the field. But, the location of Jaipur, Rajasthan, my place of birth and home to much of my family, was too much of a pull. And so I accepted.
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Shalu Umapathy (Post Tsunami Rehabilitation work – Bhoomika Trust, Chennai)
As I reflect over the last eight months, it's clear to me that the AIF Service Corps Fellowship has allowed me to acquire an immense knowledge base about social work, the context of NGOs in India, as well as the cultural differences between working in the US and in India. Having left my position as an Analyst at a marketing consulting firm in New York, I hardly knew what to expect – all I knew was that Bhoomika Trust was an NGO focused on post-tsunami rehabilitation in South India.
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