Adventures with Liberty

      Welcome back to blog #5!     Youth Making A Difference (YMAD) teaches you a whole bunch of things that you can and will apply to your daily life. More about that below. If you know me, I love talking about my India trip and everything about it, so if you want to skip over this, I won't keep you from doing so, but it is filled with a bunch of handy information so, lets get started shall we?!     Let's start at the beginning! This program is for high school juniors and seniors. In order to get into the program you have to apply either your sophomore or junior year depending on which year you want to go. I wanted to go my Junior year, so I applied the fall of  my Sophomore year. You'll fill out an application at this website  Youth Making a Difference Teens - Youth Making a Difference (ymad.org) . They currently are not accepting any applications due to COVID-19. But be sure to keep a look out on their website and social media accounts to ...

     Welcome back! I will be clearing up any miscommunication you encountered while reading Introduction . So, to start off I'll be explaining the humanitarian trips that I have/will be attending, along with the organizations and what their main purpose of their organization is.      The first organization that I went with is Youth Making A Difference (YMAD). Their mission is "Provide leadership training and practical experiences that make a difference in the world, transforming the lives of the participants and those they serve." YMAD takes two groups high school juniors and seniors on a two-week expedition to India. One group goes to West Bengal, while the other group goes up North to Kullu. I had the wonderful opportunity to attend Kullu. While in Kullu, Operation Parivar (which in Hindu means family) was split into three different schools, sizes of the group depended on how the big the schools was. My school was called Bandal and there were 31 fantastic...