A Passage Through India - Update from Ryan Mayock

Noted on April 16, 2009 | By Natanya in

I have been many places in my life, from the scantly inhabited east coast of Zanzibar with its white sand beaches to the seemingly endless mountains of Peru where panpipes roll across the landscape with indescribable beauty. I have the suffering of a child dying of tetanus at the side of the road in Kenya and the luxury of the National Geographic cruiseliner in the Galapagos. None of this prepared me for what I was about to experience in India.

India is officiously omnipresent, one can not hide from the things they see. Be it two children…

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Los Ricos

Noted on April 16, 2009 | By Natanya in

Once a week the organization, Feed the Hungry, in San Miguel de Allende organizes a trip to a rural Mexican school at Los Ricos de Abajo to teach English to the students there. Diane Hart, who heads the Feed the Hungry organization and is a former director of the IE3 program also set up an English book library for the kids there, filled with colorful interactive books that make up for what is lost in translation for the Spanish speaking students. The week before I came to Mexico, Diane recruited me to work as an interpreter and…

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