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FAMILIES
OF INDIA
History
In short...
In 22 years, 1.134 students have taken part in the project… Some of them several times.
The projects in India were launched in 1993. In 22 years in India, 917 students have participated, financed and helped to build 715 houses, and several community buildings (sanitary installations, a nursery, 7 schools and a dispensary).
PROJECTS
The development project
The participants, divided into small teams, each in a separate village, will finance and help to build several houses for poor households in Tamil Nadu - (Southern India). In some villages or towns, they will help to build classrooms or sanitary buildings, according to the local needs. They will work during 3 weeks on a building site with Indian workmen from various building trades. This experience will also allow them to live according to the rhythm of a southern Indian village.
What partcipants say
"Above all, this project in India opened my eyes to what was happening outside my home. I have finally realized that there is a huge gap between North and South, and that we need to reduce it. Of course, we see poverty on television, but we can’t imagine what it is till we have faced it with our own eyes."
Célia C
"This experience changed my vision of the world, because for the first time in my life, I was really faced with poverty. For the first time, I got the impression of helping someone, of doing something real, even if the people we helped gave us so much more in return."
"I’m deeply convinced we should not underestimate the benefit of such a life experience. World realities don’t change but we can change the way we look at them."
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