India Trip with SLV

Abbie Jenkins Start Date: Dec 6, 2017 - End Date: Sep 5, 2018
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Professional Development
  • Volunteer Trip

My Travel Story

by: Abbie Jenkins Start Date: Dec 6, 2017 - End Date: Sep 5, 2018
  • Educational/Research Trip
  • Professional Development
  • Volunteer Trip
SLV is a voluntary organisation which started in 2010. SLV runs projects to help the local community whilst simultaneously helping students and graduates to gain valuable experience in a totally different culture. I will be lending my skills to this organisation for a one week trip to India 23rd - 30th September 2018! This opportunity will greatly support my efforts to go into working in mental health and also support my studies on my psychology degree at university.

I am hoping to fundraise as much as possible in order to support me in financing this fantastic opportunity as currently all costs are coming out of my own pocket and since I am a student it's not really affordable.

During this trip I will have the chance to tour the impressive NIMHANS facilities and enjoy an audience with many of its clinicians, who will speak with me on a variety of topics around how India treats mental health issues both medically and culturally. I will also get to visit the Neuropathology Brain museum and participate in workshops on meditation and multicultural perspectives on working with children and adolescents. This blend of modern clinical practices and ancient cultural techniques will provide a truly unique and interesting experience for me.

On my final day I will get to visit beautiful Mysore and soak up the culture and beauty that India has to offer.

Those who donate will all receive my personal thanks and immense gratitude and I will be happy to exchange some sort of personal favour in return (e.g. baking cakes, picking you up from a night out, making dinner, etc.) especially for larger donations!;)

Updates

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  • Donation Update!

    So far we have raised just shy of £160 in both online and offline donations! This is incredible, but there's still a lot of work ahead.

    If you would like to help out but do not have any money to donate there is a website called easy fundraising that allows me to gain a sort of commission fee from different companies and websites when you do any online shopping. Please message me for more details or follow this link to sign up! http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/invite/VRH7KF/7B720A/