I feel like there are things that happen that help throw everything else in perspective. Last night was a little rough mental health wise, for the past couple weeks after I got adjusted to India I feel like I've lived with relatively few problems or issues, so last night was just a bit of a swing in a not so good direction. It'll be fine though, even just today feels better than last night.
Today, I went to the same school I've been attending and helping to create a sustainability curriculum for. The school is located in a slum community, so the people are renting the small pieces of land and we found out today that the land owner is evicting nearly half of the families in the area so they can build an apartment complex on the land. These people have to move within the next week to a new home, and I'm sure a lot of them will locate too far to attend the school, and it all just feels so unfair and not right. Yesterday the interns had a meeting with the founder of Selco Foundation, and he mentioned that Selco Foundation is made of the people who create inventions to improve the lives of the undeserved, and they help create a voice for some of the structurally silenced poor. So after sitting in that meeting yesterday and then hearing what we did today, the two pieces just don't match up and it doesn't feel right because none of us can be the solution or create an innovation to fix this problem...it's just the way it is.
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