Living arrangements
When students arrive in Pune, they will spend their first week and a half doing an orientation. For the first couple of days, students will be living in a hotel/hostel. Then, students will move into host families for the remainder of the orientation period.
Following the orientation, students will travel to the Melghat region, where they will spend a week doing service learning work in a rural village, through the organization Maitri Pune. While there, students will live in a rural, village-based home for development volunteers.
For the remaining month of the program, students will be placed in a project either in the city of Pune or in a rural village in Melghat. Living arrangments in each location will vary, but both will provide deep cultural immersion, with a strong local connection to the community.
- Students placed in Pune will live with host families in the Pune area for the duration of their stay.
- Students placed in a rural village in Melghat will live in a village-based home for development volunteers.
Most meals will be taken care of, either through the host family or the village-based Maitri project coordinators.