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India Summer Program: Service Learning & Cultural Immersion

Pune, India

Living arrangements


A tour of a student's host family

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 in a rural village, working with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) 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 an NGO 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.