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Av Filippa - 9 november 2013 23:15

As I told you it didn't really work out as we planned when we spoke to the sisters at mother Teresa yesterday. They freaked out about our letter of consent and they will under no surcumstances give us any intervjues. They booked us in for a meeting today to discuss it but it was very clear yesterday that they had alredy made u their minds about it.

The process of getting new intervjues have started as well as finding new perspectives. There has only been one day and we have alreddy learnd something about this culture, if you are about to do something like his, have a backup plan...we didn't. 

It feels  good to have Raj who knows the languege and the people. He have alredy made some important phonecalls and we will visit a hospital and se if they can offer us some help. Honestly I have no idea what we would have done if it wasn't for him! Thank you Raj! 






Av Filippa - 8 november 2013 23:00

When we had got home and left our bags in the appartment we immediately left to enlist our self at the missionaries of charity. We arrived there way to early o we sat down by Mother Teresas tomb and watched allot of people come and go. Some sat next to her tomb and prayed for five minutes, some sat there for hours. It was very emotional. After a while there were a sister who came with some novices and they sat on their knees and prayed for 30 minutes. Their prayer was very monotonous and quiet. Some of us wrote a note and left at the tomb for the sisters to pray for.


When the time for enlisting had come we met with sister mercy Maria and we showed her our letter of consent. However it did not go as in planned. The interviews for our thesis which we had spoke to them about for so many times was suddenly refused. Our stress level went from zero to a hundred within no time at all. Our minds started to work and we made up new plans for how to manage to get the information that we needed in order to be able to write our thesis.

Bavri and Kari Marie enlisted for work with the dying people at Kaligath home. The people who are there are picked up from the streets and taken to Kaligath so that they will get a worthy end of their lives.


Me and Raj enlisted for work at Daya dan, which is a home for physicly and mentaly disabled children. These children is not accepted in the Indian society and would most likely not be alive if they wouldn´t have been found and taken to Daya dan. Some of them are autistic, some of them have got downsyndrom, some are blind. 


          

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The 7th of november our trip starts and we will never be the same again. Our understanding och empathy will grow as the tme goes bye. And we hope yours will too. Follow us in our voloteer journey and chair our experiences.

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