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Ruth Sutherland-Scotland

RCDP- India caters lots of brilliant programs in the different sectors as I knew it after my arrival in this wonderful country. After my first week’s orientation and cultural tour, I was directly transferred to my project in the school. The teaching was really fun and rewarding, though it took long time to learn about the children.

In the beginning, I had signed for a teaching project but here I got chance to work with the street children and in the health sectors too. Some days, I went out into the community to meet the children we have been teaching or to carry out a survey of households that was for the distribution of the things that RCDP-India provides to the community people here. At the project time we were often invited by the rural people to have tea and lunch with them. Seeing the people’s life one on one was great privilege.

The days were really fruitful, helping the community people with the Polio Vaccination. Walking from community to community in the desert to give the drops of Polio vaccination to all children under five will be an unforgettable time in my life. I was doing this in a remote area of India and these three days of volunteering in the health sectors was the most fascinating days, I have ever had. During this project I came to know about the cast system and saw it with my own eyes. The people in the area cannot imagine the world where the caste system does not exist.

For this opportunity, I would like to offer big thank to RCDP- India. The coordinator here managed everything well in order. He gave us a lot of support in my work and also briefed me a lot about India. He has also been great in helping me to arrange trips at the weekends.