Making a difference - HOPE Youth Corps India 2010

Fifty-five young people from various countries, stayed in very basic conditions, ate Indian food with their hands every day and served the underprivileged for ten days.

This trip was incredible as the average age of the group was only seventeen. The kids came from very different backgrounds and most of them had no experience of the developing world.

But the trip went smoothly. All the participants were amazing. They served, worked hard, and never complained. Some had a hard time with the spicy food but all had a great attitude.

They spent lot of time at the Pudupattinam Centre of Hope where they taught the children of the primary school and helped beautify the premises by painting murals. The last day was spent feeding lunch to leprosy affected people in a colony about two hours away from where they were staying.

This trip had a lasting impact on the young people who took part in this wonderful experience. They missed Christmas with their families but celebrated with the children of the AIDS Home of Hope. As they left they took away something much more valuable- the certainty that they made a difference.