We've been busy during our time in Bangalore visiting and learning about many NGOs. One that particularly stood out to us was Parikrma Humanity Foundation. Parikrma is addressing the growing gap, in urban India, between the privileged and the poor by providing education to children whose families live in the slums. many of the children from Parikrma join at 5 years and stay till in their twenties, with a less than 1% dropout rate. Their mission is to complete the circle and have students who have found success through Parikrma come back to positively influence the current children.
All of us had the opportunity to visit the classrooms (one 8th grade and one 1st grade class) and interact with the children. We exchanged songs and stories. We sang them the St. Olaf fight song and Grace even shared the legendary tale of Paul Bunyan. It was an amazing cross cultural exchange and we couldn't contain our smiles as the first graders told us all about their hobbies and asked us questions about our ambitions and hobbies.
On Wednesday we had another cool interactive opportunity as we worked with culinary students at the Department of Hotel Management to cook ourselves a delicious dinner. On the menu was a corn salad, fish, ginger chicken, fried peppers, and of course naan, just to name a few dishes.
All of us had the opportunity to visit the classrooms (one 8th grade and one 1st grade class) and interact with the children. We exchanged songs and stories. We sang them the St. Olaf fight song and Grace even shared the legendary tale of Paul Bunyan. It was an amazing cross cultural exchange and we couldn't contain our smiles as the first graders told us all about their hobbies and asked us questions about our ambitions and hobbies.
On Wednesday we had another cool interactive opportunity as we worked with culinary students at the Department of Hotel Management to cook ourselves a delicious dinner. On the menu was a corn salad, fish, ginger chicken, fried peppers, and of course naan, just to name a few dishes.
