Project

12/13/2011

            So my project isn’t exactly what I had thought it would be coming here; needless to say, I’m very excited for it!  I’ll still get to work with education and poverty, as well as include my love for writing and passion for photography.  I’ll be doing a photojournalism article about the affects of poverty on education, focusing on women. 

            This will require/allow me to interview women in the slums about their educational experience: how far they went through school, how that has affected their lives now, and their view on education now.  Then I will get the chance to interview some of their daughters (hopefully ages 12-16), and learn where they’re at in school, how important it is to them, and what they want to be when they grow up. 

            This project will not only show some facts about public education in India, but how living in poverty is affecting a child’s chance at an education, and it will also show how things have changed over the years.  My hope is that this article will be published not just in the newspaper here in Pondicherry, but also at the University of Oregon, and hopefully some other newspapers back in Oregon.