Aha moment

Its funny how as human beings we can give up on things if they get too hard or if we simply can't see rationally how it will work out. About a month ago i renounced he Idea of going to India due to my limited finances. I set my heart in Tijuana, Mexico where i would be great aid in Casa del Immigante. I was bummed out that i wasn't going to be able to do my Global Learning term in India, until my professor spoke really serious with me. He shared with me that there are options and that he could help me obtain the funds that i needed to go to India. He said he knew people who finance learning terms like my own, to promote peace and to better humanity through service. I cried many tears of joy and fear, because i didn't want to get my hopes up to just have them shattered. I looked into the organization and they give up to 25,000 for the year for those that are wishing to serve abroad. I don't know if i am going to get that amount but anything right now is helpful. So GLT update.. God is doing something, he is telling me not to forget about India, and so i can't pass up this opportunity.

If everything goes through i will be serving in an organization called SANLAAP located in Kolkata, India within the red light district. Its goal is to protect women and children from the vicious cycle of the sex industry.

They have partnered with many other organizations that work for similar relief. They fight the idea of legalizing prostitution, for the state to profit from it, which is what other organizations are trying to do in the area. Sex workers are demoralized, and their children are forced into the industry with no choice of their own. Sanlaap provides vocational, training, shelters, among other problems for the residents of the red light district.

Currently, there are 10 millions prostitutes in India, 400,000 children are forced into prostitution, 100,000 women subjected to commercial sexual exploitation in Kolkata ( 40% of them are under 18 years of age.)
3 million girls killed at birth each year, 50,000 million girls and women go missing, result of systematic sexual discrimination such as foeticide (the fetus- homicide), the physical removal of the fetus from the womb. (Stats from Sanlaapindia.org).

I can't sit silently while these injustices continue year after year. I know that i don't have the power or money to stop this from happening but working with this organization will help.

I pray that this be a possibility. As of Mexico, i will intern there for a month before i head out to India. This will be good for me, and i won't feel bad for disregarding Mexico.

It's all in God's hands...Inshallah.
-Eveline