I am pledging my birthday to send Shweta and Kavita from a red-light area to a semester at sea
Both Shweta and Kavita plan to open a community centre in Bengaluru. This community centre is aimed at helping women like themselves and hosting cultural activities. It will also contain a cafe.
Shweta is currently in the United States studying at Watson University, Colorado. She is pursuing a degree in social entrepreneurship. Kavita is in Bangalore, researching cultural spaces in the city and the need for community centers like the one they plan to open. While Shweta is learning about the business aspect of their dream to open the community center, Kavita is busying herself with the on-ground research required for a project like this.
We have been informed that Shweta is highly benefiting from her education at the University. Kavita works as a yoga instructor in Bangalore to make a living. Both their lives have improved greatly due to the funding provided by the campaign. They have expressed their gratitude to every contributor for the support rendered to them.
Thank you.
Team Milaap
Both Shweta and Kavita plan to open a community centre in Bengaluru. This community centre is aimed at helping women like themselves and hosting cultural activities. It will also contain a cafe.
Shweta is currently in the United States studying at Watson University, Colorado. She is pursuing a degree in social entrepreneurship. Kavita is in Bangalore, researching cultural spaces in the city and the need for community centers like the one they plan to open. While Shweta is learning about the business aspect of their dream to open the community center, Kavita is busying herself with the on-ground research required for a project like this.
We have been informed that Shweta is highly benefiting from her education at the University. Kavita works as a yoga instructor in Bangalore to make a living. Both their lives have improved greatly due to the funding provided by the campaign. They have expressed their gratitude to every contributor for the support rendered to them.
Thank you.
Team Milaap
I am writing to you aboard a ship, somewhere between Namibia and Morocco! As many of you know, this Semester I have been studying on the Semester at Sea Program, where I am travelling to 15 cities, 12 countries over 112 Days.
I want to start by apologizing for this report being so delayed. We only have intermittent internet connection on the ship at a few ports. Although, before boarding the ship, I was worried about how I would stay for so long without internet, without email and calling my mother, I found that there are many advantages of not having the internet. There are no distractions from my classes, all the papers I have to write, and I can really spend time with the 600 students aboard the ship and make many great friends.
I am taking classes on Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Theater. My classes are really very interested, mostly because we learn these subjects in the context of the countries the ship is docking at, and we go and do field trips to cultural and historical sites in these countries. I feel like I understand what I am studying really well because I am seeing these live examples in front of me, and I am learning in a way that I will never forget, because I have been to these places, met these people and have spoken with them.
As I got the Presidential Scholarship to attend the Semester At Sea Program, I had to conduct 8 workshops for the students on the ship about Sex Work and Gender Inequality in India. I was very nervous about these workshops. The students who would come to my workshops would all be my age or older, what could I possibly teach them or share with them to keep them interested? But I have conducted half of the workshops already and they are going great! I show videos of plays we have performed at Kranti, and at every workshop we discuss a different nuance of stories from the Red Light Areas in India, like child sexual abuse, children of sex workers not getting admitted in school, or sex workers not getting health services because of the taboos associated with them. Before I started the workshops I used to think only 2 or 3 students will show up, but actually so many students come that some of them have to sit on the aisles!
PS - I shaved my head! It seems to be quite a fad at Kranti, as 4 Revolutionaries have already shaved their head. How do I look?
I am writing to you aboard a ship, somewhere between Namibia and Morocco! As many of you know, this Semester I have been studying on the Semester at Sea Program, where I am travelling to 15 cities, 12 countries over 112 Days.
I want to start by apologizing for this report being so delayed. We only have intermittent internet connection on the ship at a few ports. Although, before boarding the ship, I was worried about how I would stay for so long without internet, without email and calling my mother, I found that there are many advantages of not having the internet. There are no distractions from my classes, all the papers I have to write, and I can really spend time with the 600 students aboard the ship and make many great friends.
I am taking classes on Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Theater. My classes are really very interested, mostly because we learn these subjects in the context of the countries the ship is docking at, and we go and do field trips to cultural and historical sites in these countries. I feel like I understand what I am studying really well because I am seeing these live examples in front of me, and I am learning in a way that I will never forget, because I have been to these places, met these people and have spoken with them.
As I got the Presidential Scholarship to attend the Semester At Sea Program, I had to conduct 8 workshops for the students on the ship about Sex Work and Gender Inequality in India. I was very nervous about these workshops. The students who would come to my workshops would all be my age or older, what could I possibly teach them or share with them to keep them interested? But I have conducted half of the workshops already and they are going great! I show videos of plays we have performed at Kranti, and at every workshop we discuss a different nuance of stories from the Red Light Areas in India, like child sexual abuse, children of sex workers not getting admitted in school, or sex workers not getting health services because of the taboos associated with them. Before I started the workshops I used to think only 2 or 3 students will show up, but actually so many students come that some of them have to sit on the aisles!
PS - I shaved my head! It seems to be quite a fad at Kranti, as 4 Revolutionaries have already shaved their head. How do I look?
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