TAKING HEALTH CARE TO RURAL INDIA BRINGS LESSON IN LIFE'S HARSH REALITIES TO UNDERGRADS
August 29, 2008
August 29, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29 -- The University of California at Los Angeles issued the following press release:
Shoeless children on filthy village streets, dodging cattle and dogs. Families cooking in shingled huts next to cesspools of human waste. Flies and mosquitoes everywhere.
Appalling sights like these greeted a team of UCLA undergraduates during their visit last year to Vadamanappakkam, a southern Indian village about 100 miles from Chennai, one of India's majo . . .
Shoeless children on filthy village streets, dodging cattle and dogs. Families cooking in shingled huts next to cesspools of human waste. Flies and mosquitoes everywhere.
Appalling sights like these greeted a team of UCLA undergraduates during their visit last year to Vadamanappakkam, a southern Indian village about 100 miles from Chennai, one of India's majo . . .