I actually like the title of this post. I suppose “Hello World!” is the classic thing to print out when you are learning to write a program. But in this case, it makes sense to say Hello world to whoever that is reading this blog.
A little background about why I am starting this blog. I have started many blogs before, but I never had anything meaningful to say, so they didn’t last long. But this time around, I am hoping to put up information about my summer fellowship (and any other things I am currently doing)!
My Summer Fellowship
During the Spring semester at MIT of my senior year, I took a seminar called Wheelchair Design for Developing Countries. First day of class, the instructor for the course (Amos Winter) gave a first lecture on the situation for the disabled in Eastern Africa. Amos, who is a grad student, really inspired me that I, also, can do something to make the world better.
As part of the course, I worked on a project for marketing. We developed a marketing kit for the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center Wheelchair Workshop. I really wanted to take the project and implement in Africa, so I applied for a summer fellowship from the MIT Public Service Center. I was lucky enough to receive a grant from them!
What I’ll be doing in Africa
I’ll be leaving Boston on July 2nd to go to Moshi, Tanzania and come back to Boston on July 30th. During that time I am hoping to take take these materials to various wheelchair workshops in Tanzania (and perhaps Kenya) to help these workshops grow. I also hope to participate in social marketing to advocate, for the equality of disabled in East Africa. While I am there, I’ll be teaching people how to make a simple Web site at an Internet cafe! I have created a guide for it, and you can see it at: http://make.a.website.on.googlepages.com/
