2019 Community Development Projects

Community Development in Northern India

The 2019 Core Term International Field Course involved an expedition to Northern India across three and a half weeks with time spent in a large urban setting (Delhi) and a remote rural community in the Himalaya (Sarmoli). We learned about and contributed to community development in very different settings.

We spent two weeks living with individual families in Sarmoli, a remote village of three hundred households in the high mountains. We learned about and practiced a subsistence lifestyle, be it cooking, weaving, farming, knitting, food processing or walking mountain slopes. We contributed to the community in keeping with our skills: helping to set up and tend hoop houses for extended season food production, documenting traditional weaving and designing and collecting interpretive materials for displays on local plants.