Module 3, 3B, Exercise 5, page 33.0:00
Good morning, listeners.0:07
Today on the show, we have Samantha Karsten, a young university student who spent last summer doing volunteer work in India.0:09
Samantha, why did you decide to do this?0:17
Well, as a student, I have 3 months free every summer, and I just had the idea one day of doing some charity work.0:21
Then, I saw a documentary one day about the lack of clean water in some poor areas in India.0:29
I did some research online and found a charity that is trying to improve this situation by sending out teams to help.0:35
I decided to join one of those teams going to a large town in northern India for a 6-week project.0:42
And tell us what the project was all about, Samantha.0:49
Well, as changing rainfall patterns have caused terrible droughts in the last few years, Crops have failed in the countryside, and many poor people have been moving to the towns and cities.0:52
They settle in slums at the edges of the growing towns and cities, and they have no legal rights to clean water for drinking, washing, and cleaning, or proper toilet facilities.1:03
So our job was to support a professional team that had just built proper water and toilet facilities in one of these slums.1:13
We spent our days in the slum, educating people and showing them how to use the facilities to avoid illness and disease.1:22
It was an incredible experience.1:29
It sounds like it, Samantha.1:31
Do you think that the work you achieved will have a long-lasting impact on the people there?1:33
We got some of the people living in the slums involved in helping with the building project too.1:39
Now the charity is sponsoring some of these people to carry on the work we started.1:44
It was also very encouraging to hear some of the local people coming up with their own ideas about improving hygiene and sanitation in the slums.1:49
As they began to understand that poor hygiene causes disease and lost working hours, they got inspired to find their own solutions.1:56
And what would you say to others thinking about doing some charity work abroad?2:05
Oh, definitely go for it!2:09
It was very rewarding to be part of something so important.2:11
I also feel that the whole experience helped me to grow up and become a more responsible, outgoing, and confident person.2:15
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