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Category Archives: Naiara Tejados
Voices from the field: We shall name her Anandini, Anandini is Joy!
India: Supporting Renewable Energy at our BHIL Academy project
by Naiara Tejados
Jhabua, India, 16th of February 2011
RENEWABLE ENERGY AT BHIL ACADEMY
It has really been a pleasure for me to see how, little by little, renewable green energies have become a part of our lovely school, the Bhil Academy (www.realmedicinefoundation.org/initiative/bhil-academy-jhabua-district-madhya-pradesh-india or search Bhil Kids on Facebook). Because of the hard work and dedication of donors, volunteers, and partners, the Bhil Academy is becoming more and more ¨green¨ every day!
eV Renewables´s staff members working at the Bhil Academy
Solar Electricity from eV Renewables and Loop Solutions
Voces del Voluntarias: Naiara Tejados en India
Jhabua, 24 de enero de 2011
Pienso en cada momento cuán feliz me hace saber que he tomado la decisión correcta. Desde que tengo uso de razón he querido vivir una experiencia así: recuerdo, cómo el primer año después de haber comenzado mi Tesis Doctoral intenté contactar con algunas ONG-s para durante mis vacaciones estivales ofrecer lo mejor de mí en algún país en vías de desarrollo. Tal y como me dijeron entonces, pocas ONG-s aceptarían mi ayuda de ser sólo para un mes. Fue entonces cuando decidí definitivamente posponer la experiencia hasta completar mi Tesis.
Me siento realmente afortunada aún en estos días pues en el año 2006 en Gobierno Vasco me concedió una beca para ir a Minneapolis (EEUU) para realizar un curso de identificación, aislamiento, caracterización y expansión de un tipo de célula de la médula ósea de ratones; fue allí cuando primeramente contacté con esta India maravillosa aún sin tocarla. Preferí convivir con una familia local en vez de hospedarme en un hotel. Así es como tuve la ocasión de conocer a la persona más interesante que he conocido en mi vida: Nancy Ramer, una señora mayor muy religiosa de origen escocés. Ya al día siguiente de llegar recuerdo cómo me empezó a contar que tras haber estudiado enfermería, atendió a muchos heridos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Inglaterra, y después recibió una “llamada de Dios” requiriendo de su ayuda: su ayuda era necesitada en un país lejano. Ella pensó que sería destinada a Manchuria, pero finalmente, y muy a su pesar, fue destinada a Sangli, cerca de Pune, Maharashtra, India. Estaba convencida de que la odiarían pues India recientemente había conseguido la independencia de Inglaterra. Fijó sus condiciones remarcando que bajo ningún concepto residiría más de dos años en India. Continue reading
Voices From the Field: A Volunteer’s Story by Naiara Tejados
Jhabua, January 24, 2011
I cannot stop thinking of how happy I feel knowing I made the right decision. For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to have an experience like this. I can still remember how during the first year of my PhD studies I tried to contact several NGOs to try and volunteer in a developing country during my summer holidays. Most of the NGO´s would not accept my help for only a single month. I decided at that point to postpone this experience until my PhD was over.
Naiaraat with child at Jeevan Jyoti Hospital
During my studies, I was lucky when in 2006 the Basque Government gave me a grant to go to Minneapolis (USA) to attend a training course and learn how to identify, isolate, characterize and expand a stem cell type from murine bone marrow. It was during this time when I first had contact with lovely India without actually visiting. I preferred to stay with a local family in the Minneapolis rather than staying in a hotel and that is how I met the most interesting person ever: Nancy Ramer, an elderly Scottish very religious woman. She told me, the day after I arrived, that after finishing nursery she attended many patients during the Second World War in England, and during this time received “a call from God” asking her to help: her help was needed in a foreign country far away. She thought she would be destined to Manchuria, but finally, much to her regret, she was destined to Sangli, near Pune, Maharashtra, India. She thought everyone would hate her because India had at this time just recently become independent from England. She stated her conditions emphasizing she would never stay longer than two years in India.