Photo Blog--Week 1 in Pictures

Signs outside the Bapu Nature Cure and Yogashram emphasizing preventive care. We were a little reserved when we first got here, but now that we're staying in Vasant Kunj, I miss it! We met some cool people there. We'll be back there for the fourth week of rotations.



Youth peer educators at the St. Stephens Community Outreach Center located in Nandnargh (East Delhi slum) last Tuesday. There was so much enthusiasm in that room.



As part of the Outreach Center's socioeconomic empowerment program, women are trained to make, package, market and sell spices.



Standing water and trash...this is a very mild version of the huge problems India has with standing water and garbage everywhere you look...it's so common to see mountains of trash in every type of area, even the upscale places.



Picture from Reuters: People from the ethnic Gujjar community burn an effigy during a demonstration in New Delhi May 31, 2007. Police in Rajasthan killed two ethnic Gujjars on Thursday during a protest for reserved places in government jobs and colleges, two days after 13 members of the community were shot dead by police.



Picture from India Times: People of Gujjar community take part in a demonstration in a Rajasthan village as they demand reservation for their community.



Emma, Paul and I in a bike rickshaw (the three of us in 110-degree heat on that bike, poor rickshaw-walla). This was on our way out of the drug de-addiction camp (in an utterly packed neighborhood), on Friday afternoon.



A group photo with the health workers at the SPYM HIV testing/counseling site last Thursday. It was hot, and on the way there we got stuck among all these big trucks (it's a truck stop area) because the borders were blocked due to Gujjar protesting (and now there's the uprising from an opposing tribe, the Meenas).



HIV rapid assay testing at the SPYM HIV testing and counseling site. His name escapes me right now, but the guy in the photo did 6 tests and they all came out negative...very good news. But the health workers there stress that HIV and ignorance about HIV and other STDs, as well as high risk behaviors, continue to be a big problem.