Our next visit to India will be in 2012. Dates and prices TBC. For more information about this trip, contact Sarah at the Amos office.
Journey to Freedom
Following the success of the Highland Homes visit in February 2008, we are very keen to take another group of supporters to experience India, learn about Dalit human rights and visit the Amos' partner, the Tamarind Project.
The trip will start in Chennai, a fascinating, highly-populated and very busy city. A place which will help us gain an understanding of what it means to be an urban Dalit. We will then journey on to Madurai, visiting the temples and the inspirational Dalit Theological Seminary. From there we will visit the Tamarind Project in rural Tamil Nadu, meeting the children and staff involved in the project, and experiencing local Dalit drumming.
We will carry on to Cape Comorin, India's southern tip, where we will see the sunset and dawn rise over three oceans and hear of the devastation caused by the 2004 tsunami and the relief work that Amos undertook there. Our tour will then take us to Trivandrum visiting the local markets and the beautiful beaches of the Kerala coast before flying up to Bangalore where we shall experience IT-driven modern India. We will visit an A Rocha project to learn about the pressure this modern city is putting on local communities and the environment, and we will visit the Bannerghatta National Park to learn about A Rocha's work in human-elephant conflict.
