Harry's Immersion to India
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Hi everyone,
As recently as 2012, the Indian government stated that around 270 million people in India are living on less than $1.25 a day. This equates to around 1 in 5 people in India being below the poverty line.
Statistics like these just reveal how much help some people in our world need, and I am hoping to be able to make as much difference possible when I visit India on an Ignatian service program in December and January. As I witness these global issues first hand, I will be looking after the community and assisting in anyway possible, and supplying them with funds, seeing the difference it shall make whilst truly understanding how lucky I am.
During my immersion, I shall visit Kolkata, Varanasi and Jaipur, and I will visit some of the most marginalised areas in the world. I shall be attending schools for abandoned children with disabilities, schools run by Loreto sisters who have taken girls off the street and giving them a home and an education, going to homes created for children abandoned on the railway platform in Varanasi, and in addition visit a school and home for girls with visual impairments.
The money used in the past has had a monumental impact on the communities visited, and I hope to be able to create the same effect. The Loreto Sisters have set up schools in the brickfields in the outskirts of Kolkata, in which our funds raised shall supply two schools, teacher wages, resources, health checks and a sports day for a year. In the immersion which visited India last year, they were able to visit the home for girls with visual impairments and fund 60 eye surgeries. In addition, they created a solar structure for a rural children's home in Japiur, taking them off the grid and in addition buying them a fridge and a freezer. There are approximately 60 children who reside here, and who hadn't had a working fridge for 11 months.
It goes without saying that the money raised can go such a long way, and can completely change lives and communities. In order to make my immersion as successful and meaningful as possible, I am required to raise $1500 to make as much difference as I possibly can. Any amount of money donated would be greatly appreciated, and will go directly to supporting those in India who are less fortunate.
I cannot thank you enough for your support.
Harry Macleod, St Ignatius' College Riverview
As recently as 2012, the Indian government stated that around 270 million people in India are living on less than $1.25 a day. This equates to around 1 in 5 people in India being below the poverty line.
Statistics like these just reveal how much help some people in our world need, and I am hoping to be able to make as much difference possible when I visit India on an Ignatian service program in December and January. As I witness these global issues first hand, I will be looking after the community and assisting in anyway possible, and supplying them with funds, seeing the difference it shall make whilst truly understanding how lucky I am.
During my immersion, I shall visit Kolkata, Varanasi and Jaipur, and I will visit some of the most marginalised areas in the world. I shall be attending schools for abandoned children with disabilities, schools run by Loreto sisters who have taken girls off the street and giving them a home and an education, going to homes created for children abandoned on the railway platform in Varanasi, and in addition visit a school and home for girls with visual impairments.
The money used in the past has had a monumental impact on the communities visited, and I hope to be able to create the same effect. The Loreto Sisters have set up schools in the brickfields in the outskirts of Kolkata, in which our funds raised shall supply two schools, teacher wages, resources, health checks and a sports day for a year. In the immersion which visited India last year, they were able to visit the home for girls with visual impairments and fund 60 eye surgeries. In addition, they created a solar structure for a rural children's home in Japiur, taking them off the grid and in addition buying them a fridge and a freezer. There are approximately 60 children who reside here, and who hadn't had a working fridge for 11 months.
It goes without saying that the money raised can go such a long way, and can completely change lives and communities. In order to make my immersion as successful and meaningful as possible, I am required to raise $1500 to make as much difference as I possibly can. Any amount of money donated would be greatly appreciated, and will go directly to supporting those in India who are less fortunate.
I cannot thank you enough for your support.
Harry Macleod, St Ignatius' College Riverview
Organizer
Harry Macleod
Organizer
Vaucluse, NSW