Thinking Forward

It’s nearly impossible for me to begin to wrap my head around where the minutes, hours, and days have been slipping to with the close of our third week at Sewa. Already the other interns and I have combined heads to envision a plan of execution for the activities and research we intend to carry out for the remainder of internship. The most daunting task of all, I think, is to ensure that all our programming and efforts will prove to be sustainable even after our time here. There’s no way to tell just how our plans may pan out after our departure-- or even over the next couple of weeks. However, it is my utmost priority to ensure that we strive within all our means to create programming that the Bhutanese community is genuinely interested in having made available to them, to widely include the community in all aspects of the project development, and finally that we set-up the framework and infrastructure for our plans to further develop and thrive sans our presence. 

I want our time here to reflect less of a “legacy” and more of a growing conscious for an under served community. The work that Sewa is doing is particularly novel in the sense that it as an organization is growing alongside the community, catering to its needs as it changes and fluctuates over the years. Though our time here with Sewa merely feels like minutes, I have faith the work that we will have conducted in this time will contribute to the evolving relationship Sewa has established with the community.