When I was considering coming to India, I was weighing a bunch of different factors. I was nervous about spending two months so far away from everyone I love with three people I had never met before. I knew I would be studying abroad this fall and that I probably would not have time to […]
My Project I just finished spending my summer at Aravind-Madurai, where I was working on improving the recruitment and management processes of the volunteer/internship program. When I arrived, I learned that Dhivya and Srilakshmi took on a lot of the responsibilities related to the interns. There were few formal systems and resources in place to […]
When Dr. G. Venkataswamy founded Aravind Eye Hospital in 1976, he sought to fix India’s problem of needless blindness. To make a dent in the “backlog of 20 million blind eyes,” Dr. V. passionately described modeling the hospital system after McDonald’s. After all, is there any reason selling sight-restoring operations should be more difficult than […]
If you had asked me six months ago where I would be this summer, I would have smiled and told you that only God knows, but that I was thinking New York or D.C. I would have told you that I was submitting applications on the West Coast too, and a couple in the Midwest, […]
Hey everyone! My name is Catherine Parr, and I am a rising junior at Penn studying health care management and policy in Wharton. I am from Cold Spring, New York, a small town located along the Hudson River just an hour north of New York City. This summer, I will be interning with Aravind […]