Longitude

Our first car ride to Gumallapaddu Village was the perfect formula for paradise: the sun shining overhead, a gentle breeze flowing through the window, and the kind of vast landscape that you’d imagine when listening to Toto’s “Africa.”  Every so often a holy cow would roam casually into the path of our jeep, which coming [...]

It is my first day back in Japan after a truly amazing time in India and as I pore over the many photographs I took in GP village I am transported back there by the children’s beaming smiles, the warmth of which I can physically feel despite the cold of my [...]

The fish farm-lined road to Gummallapadu holds a healthy bit of traffic this morning. The car bumping along it is blasting Bollywood tunes as it winds through the bustling crowd: a few nervous goats pick at the grass; a lazy water buffalo stubbornly refuses to move off the path; a chicken crosses the road (why? [...]

Although it was only yesterday that we received what I believe to be the world’s warmest welcome, I can easily say that this won’t be my last visit to GP village.  As I write this, I’m sitting with Prasanthi, the woman with the very important job of tutoring the village children and keeping track of [...]

The morning started out with promise of a  full healthy group, but
sadly, two of our group members, Michelle and Claire, had to go to the
hospital for stomach problems.  It isn’t truly a trip to India until
you have some form of Delhi Belly.
Upon our arrival at the work site, we divided up into much smaller
groups.  After [...]