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SFU Health Sciences Takes India! Our Neighbourhood - Gariahat, Kolkata
SFU Health Sciences Takes India! Our Neighbourhood - Gariahat, Kolkata
By: Martyna Purchla | SFU Health Sciences Co-op Student
In the summer of 2011, four SFU Health Sciences Co-op students, Martyna, Silvia, Lindsay and Christine went on an INCREDIBLE 4-month work term to India. Working with Destiny Reflection, an organization whose goal is to empower female victims of human trafficking to become self-sufficient through dignified employment. Their blog series, SFU Health Sciences Takes India!, captures some of the experiences on their life changing journey.
Martyna provides a tour of the neighbourhood where the SFU Health Sciences Co-op Team working at Destiny Reflection in India live.
Our home on Dover Lane Pedestrian Control Pandal Built for Durga Festival
No horns? Yah, right! Unusual traffic: Live chickens on a bike!
More photos of our day to day life on Dover Lane:
Beyond the Article
- Learn more about the Destiny Foundation.
- What is Destiny Reflections?
- Learn how these students continued to help when they returned home.
- Find out more about the opportunities avalible through International Co-op.
- Read about other International Co-op experiences.
Posted on April 25, 2012
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