Uncommon Problems: My India Connections and Reflections
Most of us take for granted having a glass of water with every meal. At this school in the Khasi Hills of India, these children don’t. This is the school that I visited in 2015 and among other things, gave a career talk to the 9th and 10th grade students. There is no reliable source of water for drinking or plumbing in this poor, remote area. Despite the fact that the region has a monsoon season, there are months during the dry season when the water harvested during the rainy season has run out.
The last three months, I have been coordinating a crowdsource funding campaign to help them raise money for a Rainwater Harvesting facility. My relationship with the school started in 2003 when I became a sponsor to a student to pay for school expenses until government funding kicked in. As a woman without children, supporting her had special meaning. Nubrilon went on to college and became a teacher, and I had the opportunity to actually meet her in person in 2015.
I hope you will take a moment and CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT THIS SCHOOL AND CONSIDER A CONTRIBUTION. Do please view the two-minute video that I’m pretty proud of producing with the help of my tech savvy sweetheart. Thank you for indulging me in my request to help in the education of children and their futures, which is naturally close to my heart as a career counselor.
OR CLICK THE PHOTO BELOW FOR MORE INFO, KAREN’S VIDEO, AND TO PLEASE HELP.
