Today I'm just stay at home and prepare my HIV/AIDS presentation to the Indian people stay at rural area. I'd like to thank those who help me to prepare it, especially you, dear.
Yesterday was a great day actually. Had a meeting in the morning with my employer, then went to their office, 27+- km away, which is not too far, but take a long time (around 1 hour) to travel there.
I'm working with a NGO called Karunalayam Rural Welfare Society, as it's name suggest, their main focus is in the rural area. The people there treat me really well, even too over that I'm not feeling comfortable. I'm just like a V.I.P over there.
When I first arrive in their office, they welcome me by their traditional way. They used to put a piece a cloth around their guest's neck, and just for yesterday, I had received two pieces of cloth. After that they were just keep feeding me, almost every house i visit, they will serve drink or snack or food. I don't know how is my tolerance to the seemingly unclean food and drink, I already feel my stomach isn't in good order. But what I can do? I can't refuse to have what people offer me. It's not polite.
A short visit to the villages we work in gave me an insight into the living conditions of the people there. Most of them just live in a small hut build by straws, dry leaves and dry grasses. Without proper sewage system and toilet, though electric is available. Water supply is on the sharing basis, which there's only couple of pipe in one village, and everybody have to go to the pipe to get water. Cooking are done at the front of the house, and I don't think it's that clean. Most of the people are involve in agriculture activities, so there's not many men in the village during day time. This is the place I'm going to work.
I'll teach the local children, teenager, and women about the HIV/AIDS. This could be a great challenge for me since I've no experience to it. I'm going to overcome the language barrier, and present as simple yet as detail as I could. Anyway I'm going to try my best and hopefully it's going to have some help to the community in the HIV/AIDS issues.
By the way, the fund of my volunteering work is almost entirely came from donation and support from my friends, and I'm still couple of hundred MYR short in my fund, so I hope I can get enough fund to continue my work in India. Thank you for your support.
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