My name is Evan and I am a 28 year old primary school teacher from the United States. I volunteered for P.O.O.R in the spring of 2007 in the city of Shillong and it was truly a beautiful experience. Volunteering allowed me the opportunity to work closely with the children of India inside a community that I would otherwise never had access to.
The work was challenging at times, but endlessly rewarding. The children are of course wonderful, as all children are, and desperately in need of attention, which I was more than willing to give. Our hosts took the utmost concern for our safety and well-being. We were very well cared for and I always felt that the children and people of P.O.O.R were doing their very best to meet our every need.
If you are considering volunteering for this program, I would highly recommend that you do so. I know that I will certainly be returning to the volunteer site I was placed at to see how the children have grown and progressed in their studies. I was touched by this experience and not a day goes by that I don't think of my time at the school with Didi and the children.
