Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons, I leave Shanti Dan, grab lunch, and head over to Kalighat (or Nirmal Hriday, Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying and Destitutes) to volunteer from 3-5-ish. Kalighat is a very different experience than Shanti Dan.
In India, many people get sick and waste away on the street until they die there. [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 20, 2008
kalighat
November 16, 2008
shanti dan
Oh, Shanti Dan. There is not a place in India that has worked its way into my heart quite like Shanti Dan. Every morning except Thursday and Sunday, I work from about 8-12 at this home for “mentally challenged” women. I arrive and am immediately greeted by multiple shouts of “Auntie!!! Good morning!!! How are [...]
November 13, 2008
oh, how i love kolkata
Okay, so I’ve been fighting with the internet connections here in order to upload some pictures and send a very overdue update, but I have given up. I don’t know why the computer imported the above Kolkata skyline picture to be massive, nor do I know why it is now taking approximately eight million years [...]
