My trip to India: Some Advice Please!

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Hello, my name is Neisha D'Souza.

I am an undergraduate at Tulane University and will be traveling to

India in July for a year's time. I will devote this year to helping

various NGOs (or any group that needs help) in their struggle to

prevent and treat AIDS.

I am very new to the details of the pandemic, and do not know what I

am qualified to do. I will begin volunteering in AIDS counseling

centers, here in New Orleans within the month. I am reading as much

as I can outside of school. I will graduate with a degree in

Neuroscience come May- therefore, science and medicine are topics

that I am familiar with and capable of tackling.

I am currently trying to win a $25,000 fellowship that would fund my

trip, the rest of which I would donate towards materials and

resources.

Please give me some advice as to what an extremely serious, thick-

stomached, and willful girl of 21 can do.

What is appropriate, how may I best prepare myself for what I will

see in India?

If anything, I need to know what to fill my suitcases with- what

supplies should I carry with me to Mumbai?

I plan to spend time in or around Mumbai, Goa, and New Delhi.

I know this is very brief and vague, but I have to start somewhere.

Thank you,

Neisha D'Souza

E-mail: neishi22@...>

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