SFU Health Sciences Takes India! Our Neighbourhood - Gariahat, Kolkata

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SFU Health Sciences Takes India! Our Neighbourhood - Gariahat, Kolkata

By: Martyna Purchla | SFU Health Sciences Co-op Student

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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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