We finished our 10 full days of teaching today! We cannot believe that our trip is almost over! We taught a total of 1,943 people over the course of 10 days! Our most memorable teaching experience was yesterday, we taught 50 adult women at the Madurai Non-Formal Education Centre (MNEC), an organization that provides women from rural and urban slums with food, medical supplies and education, and it also has a center for HIV/AIDS for women and children. These women were fantastic! They were so eager to learn, and they presented each of us with beautiful flower garlands. At the end of our lesson, a few of them came up to us and thanked us. One woman told us how they see drownings occur fairly often, and they never did anything because they didn't know what to do, and they were excited because this was the first time they had ever received any information about how to rescue someone, and they were very excited to use what we had taught. We were so moved by these women, that we donated our teaching bag with all of our teaching supplies and script of what we taught to the MNEC. This entire teaching experience has been great, some of the boys we taught at an all boys high school near our hotel recognize us on the street every morning.
Tomorrow morning we leave for Mamallapurram!
--Kaitlin, Caitlin, Carley, Beth, Jesse and Bella.
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