100 American Students To Do Volunteer Programmes in India

Friday, 11 July 2014, 00:38 IST
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WASHINGTON: About 100 American high school and college students will travel to the Indian cities of Hyderabad, Vadodara and Indore to provide their at-risk peers, mostly juvenile delinquents and orphans, basic life skills.

The journey this summer is part of a project initiated by Uplift Humanity India, a Basking Ridge, New Jersey based non-profit organization founded by an Indian American for the rehabilitation of juvenile inmates in South Asia. Following the One Step Forward curriculum, a handbook developed by the organization the American students will teach their Indian counterparts the importance of proper communication and leadership.

Now in its fourth year of operations, Uplift Humanity's summer programmes are starting to create the impact they were designed to make, according to local Basking Ridge Patch.

"Uplift Humanity is the first U.S. non-profit to send American teenagers directly to India to work in orphanages and juvenile detention centres," founder Anish Patel, a business student at New York University, was quoted as saying.

"I created the organization, while a student myself, to give orphans and juveniles in India a second chance."
Source: IANS