And so begins my first blogging adventure. I have never blogged before, but I thought that it would be nice to jump on the bandwagon. On the plus side, it will probably also be a much easier to keep everyone updated.
This Sunday (day after tomorrow) I will be leaving for a media internship with SEARCH, a community health organizationin Maharastra, India. SEARCH stands for Society for Education, Action, and Research in Community Health, and their campus, Shodgram, is 17 km from Gadchiroli - which I believe is the closest town.
SEARCH's aim is "to work with marginalised communities to identify their health needs, develop community empowering models of health care to meet these health needs, to test these models by way of research studies, and then to make this knowledge available to others by way of training and publications." I first read about their work in a nytimes blog entry.
I will find out more about what exactly my job is when arrive on June 11 (I'll be catching up with family for a bit when I first arrive) - the first week is supposed to be somewhat of an orientation. From what I have been told, it seems like I will be doing a lot of documentation/editing/classifying and other media related things. I am also really excited to observe the public health aspect of their work like surgery camps, village visits, and research.
Goodbye for now. I have quite a bit of packing to do. :)
don't forget that it was your sister who sent you the nyt article :)
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