Back in India!

I am lucky enough to be back in India after too long! As part of my MPH degree I am required to complete a practicum with an organization and was fortunate enough to get an internship with PATH (www.path.org).  I have been working in their headquarters office in Seattle since June on a health education project based around Lucknow, India and got the chance to come to Lucknow to see the project, meet the team and continue my work from here for about a month.  The project is a community-led health education project using videos on key maternal and child health issues and is currently being scaled up for an evaluation next year.  I am here with one of my supervisors from Seattle, and we have been working on various tools for the monitoring and evaluation of the project, meeting with partners, and attending the “video disseminations” to ensure quality of the data collection and just to make sure things are running smoothly.  One the weekends there is a little time for shopping and exploring of Lucknow which has some beautiful architecture.  I haven’t taken many pictures but here’s a few!  I miss my Wandering Two companion!

Visit to the House of Worship in Delhi

First meal of paneer! YUM!

Visiting Ambedkar Memorial in Lucknow

Huge park with lots of statues

There were 62 elephant statues in this row!

All of the elephants, this park just kept going and going with marble columns and statues etc...