Evening in India 2012

To help meet our fundraising goals for the NGOs this year, IHI will continue the tradition of hosting “Evening in India – A South-Asian inspired cultural experience”. In the past this event has been a fantastic success featuring some of the top South-Asian musicians and dancers in South-Western Ontario.

South-Asian inspired music, dance, food, fun and even a silent auction. We promise that you'll love it! To reserve tickets email us at indiahealth[at]gmail[dot]com or contact us by phone at 226-234-4396 (David).

If you are interesting in performing or offering your support in any way, please don’t hesitate to email us.

We hope to see you there.
Michelle, Paige, Ashok, Aleshia, and David

An Evening in India 2011, it's coming!

A quick update about the behind-the-scene preparation for "An Evening in India", the annual cultural fund-raising event put together by the community and IHI team. We have secured the venue and Charu is working hard on putting together the program, and teaching us how to dance. Here is some information for the event:

When: March 25th (Friday) 7:00-9:30PM
Where: Clarke Road Secondary School, London

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We'll have a lot more details follow, stay tuned with this blog. In the mean time, here are some pictures from our recent visit. The auditorium is beautiful and very well equipped!

From 2011 Team Blog

From 2011 Team Blog

From 2011 Team Blog

We are very grateful to the great staff and teachers at Clarke Road Secondary School who helped us show us around and sort out the logistics.

The 2012 IHI Team

Meet the 2012 IHI Team! We are a team of five students from three healthcare-related faculties. We are excited to be part of this learning opportunity/adventure and we hope you'll be part of it by being connected with us via this blog. The team for this year is:

David Wonnacott (back row, left) is a first year medical student from London, Ontario. Ashok Ramchandani (back row, centre) is in his first year of studying occupational therapy at UWO, and is originally from Thunder Bay. Paige Doherty (back row, right) is also a first year occupational therapy student from Guelph, Ontario. Michelle Edwards (front row, left) is also a first year medical student, she's from Toronto. Aleshia Denny (front row, right) is the nursing student on the team, she's currently doing her final term placement in her home town of Seaforth, Ontario.

2011 Team Applications

Here is the moment all (ok some) of you have been waiting for. Here are the IHI 2010/2011 team applications.

If you are at all interested in being apart of the IHI team please take a minute to look over the application and over the rest of the blog to see if IHI is something you would like to be apart of. If after doing so you have any questions please, please, please don’t hesitate to email us at indiahealth(at)gmail(dot)com or using the link in our sidebar on the left.

Applications are due on Monday, October 4, 2010 and should be submitted to us as an attachment in an email. Send completed applications to indiahealth(at)gmail(dot)com.  Everyone will be contacted by email and that email will indicate whether or not you have been selected for an interview and interviews will begin shortly after that.

So what are you waiting for?

Click here to get the 2010/2011 IHI application.

Jeremy, Kayla, Marissa and Pranavi.

ps. The application is in PDF format. If your computer does not have the capabilities to edit PDFs then just copy and paste the application into a word document and fill it out there. Good luck!

Farewell Amar Jyoti

On our last day at Amar Jyoti, Dr. Tuli organized a meeting with some of the staff members to talk and share ideas about what we felt healthcare should be and how different (or similar) things are in Canada. It was a great way to wrap up our visit to AJ, but also our stay in India as a whole. We talked about our goals as students and what we gained from this global health experience. It was wonderful for us to see how far Amar Jyoti had come and how it continued to grow and serve its community. While we were unable to organize this, IHI 2011 may enjoy a day trip to Amar Jyoti’s second chapter in Gwalior.
Your generous support of the India Health Initiative enabled us to provide Amar Jyoti with a donation of $1000 CAD. This money will be put towards the building of a Creativity Room for the students of the integrated school.