To Nalgonda We Go

After completing our first phase of four, two-hour sessions with C. Ramchand Girl’s High School, we board the bus in yet another attempt to actually stay and teach in Nalgonda. Today will be our first class with AP Social Welfare Residential Boys School for Muslim Minorities. After battling the urban grid of madness and smog, [...]

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Day One in the Classroom

Friday was our first day in the classroom at C. Ramchand Girl’s High School. The school is located on the Ousmania University campus, and is part of the Andhra Mahilia Institution. This Literacy organization is made up of several schools, colleges and organizations for women, started by a woman and her husband who wanted [...]

Incredible India

“I hope the reader will recognize that there is no contradiction between criticism and affection.”- Edward Luce, author of In Spite of the Gods
Yesterday proved a quintessentially “Indian” day. That is, for a foreigner.
For the foreigner India can be a perverse and antithetical place. All systems of order held sacred to the foreigner, all concepts [...]

What was your Test Score?

Today as we bumped along to Nalgonda, with high hopes that our long months of conceptualizing would finally become concrete, Mother India threw another curve. From waiting for the car in Hyderabad, to waiting patiently at the school for the principal to kindly return from his lunch, even Sudek, one of AIF’s local coordinators had [...]

What "I" Deserve

In the past year and a half conceptualizing and gaining support for this project, many counter arguments were if these kids hardly have food and water then how can we expect to give them something as advanced and sophisticated as computers? But these kids do have food and water and much more, they have the [...]

What “I” Deserve

In the past year and a half conceptualizing and gaining support for this project, many counter arguments were if these kids hardly have food and water then how can we expect to give them something as advanced and sophisticated as computers? But these kids do have food and water and much more, they have the [...]

visiting Nalgonda schools & developing curriculum

Sunday, January 20
We have learned much in the past two days since landing in Hyderabad.  As much teaching as we are expecting to do over the next two months, we are most aware of how much learning lies ahead of us.
We have now taken our first look at the schools we will be working with, [...]

Lessons Learned from Blind Cricket

Saturday, January 19

Today, Swarna invited us to join her at a blind cricket match, organized by the Devnar School, a secondary school for the blind in Hyderabad. Unfortunately, Remy and I spent most of the match circumnavigating the entire grounds, unable to locate the correct entrance gate and by the time we finally entered the [...]

Young Idealists

As the signature haze of Delhi thickens below me a realization takes flight. A long awaited journey has earned its departure. Today we will arrive in Hyderabad and this project will begin.
Over the past week spent in New Delhi, site seeing and visiting with family apprehensions have built. On a visit to the Swami Narayan [...]