My first day here is coming to an end. It has been a fascinating insight into an amazing charity doing some pretty amazing things. Arrived here by rickshaw and although I thought that I had got the price well down from an initial 200 rupees to 100 rupees for the trip from my hotel, I soon discovered that it should have only cost me 20 rupees!! With about 70 rupees to the £, that is really cheap. Ah well, I now know for the journey going back to the hotel!
Spent the day listening to the key players here who make up the leadership team, led by Vishal the Chief Exec who is a truly inspirational guy. My work for the next two weeks is becoming clearer and there will be much to do around helping to build a satrategy for growth.
Vishal and I have just taken a tour around Bangalore's biggest slum - just opposite Dream a Dream's office. It houses well over 200,000 people and covers an area of about 4 square kilometres. Such areas of poverty are not new to me but it has been some years since I visited a shanty town in S Africa or was last in India etc. The amazing thing is that in general, the people look happy and yet they have very, very little.
I feel a little punch drunk with so much information that I have absorbed today. Hoping to get some photos and video uploaded onto this blog soon!
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Hi Ed,
Glad all is well. You'll get over the jetlag in about a week! Only joking! All sounds endearingly familiar.Enjoy!
Sandra
Great experience Ed. And you managed to get pics in. Well done. Am following your travels daily and can almost smell Bangalore and hear the traffic!
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