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Hi my name is Carly Forcade.

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And this summer I spent in
Mumbai and Gujarat India,

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working and living in
the very rural areas

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of the bustling city of Mumbai.

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It was an incredible experience.

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It was something unlike
anything I've done before.

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I've traveled a lot in my past.

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However, I've never
really traveled

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to anywhere quite like India.

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It was a really unique
experience and something

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I'm really, really
happy that I did.

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All of these photos are
photos from my work,

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with Under the
Mango Tree Society,

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which is the company
that I worked with.

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It's part for-profit and part
not for profit organization.

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I worked with the
not for profit team,

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which was a very
unique experience

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because I actually got really
hands-on experience working

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with the field office team
in Gujarat India, which

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most of you don't know
is a state within India.

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And then I was in
extremely rural areas

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such as [INAUDIBLE] which
is very far away from Mumbai

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or, if you're familiar
with the capital, Delhi.

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So my experience in Gujarat,
I wanted to break my summer up

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into two months which
is how long I was there,

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July, which was when
I was in the field

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actually working with
the women bee keepers,

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and August, which is when I
was editing all of the videos

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I was doing.

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For July, I traveled to--

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it was a very rural experience.

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I traveled to
Gujarat India, where

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I was filming these
women and their children

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in their daily lives to get
a better experience of what

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Under the Mango Tree was doing.

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Under the Mango
Tree, as I said, is

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a not for profit and
for-profit company that

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worked with women
bee keepers, which

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was an incredible
experience for me

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because I loved to see
women succeeding and having

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an opportunity to go
further, especially in India

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and very rural India, where they
don't have as much opportunity.

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A lot of their daily lives
include working in the field,

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working at home, so having
the opportunity to give them

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better agricultural
yields, better profit

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for their families was really
something special in my heart.

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Working with these women was
something-- as I've said,

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this was very different
from something I've done.

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And it was a process
getting to know them.

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For many of them, they've
never seen a foreigner before,

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so letting them open
their hearts to me

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and their homes was
definitely a process.

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So what I would do.

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When I first arrived,
I had about a week

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in each village, two in
some, and I went in there.

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And at first, a
lot of them looked

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me like I was absolutely crazy.

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I don't a word of
Hindi, so getting

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to meet them and work with them
was definitely a challenge.

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So translations,
smiling, hugging,

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sometimes just little offerings
of food make huge difference.

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Also, going back every day
and working with these women,

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just seeing your face
again really helped.

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And it was really just
an important experience

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because I was able to see what
they did in their daily lives.

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A small moment, such
as one day a woman--

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I was walking down the road
and she started to smile at me.

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That made a huge
difference to me

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because it meant
that she was finally

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going to maybe let me in to see
a little bit more of her life.

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Which as you can see, they
finally really let me in.

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I went into their homes.

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They cooked for me a little bit.

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And just those little,
everyday experiences

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made a really big
difference with--

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[CHUCKLE]

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Very, very different.

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As you can see, some of these--

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I was in the mud.

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I was traveling through fields.

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I was traveling on motorbikes.

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It was really a little
bit of a challenge

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to get to work
everyday you could say.

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But it was something that I
wouldn't trade for the world.

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Talking about
Gujarat a lot makes

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me also think of what I
was doing in Mumbai, which

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editing all of the
videos that I was

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doing while I was in the field.

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So I'm just going to show you
quickly one of those clips

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instead of explaining all of
the wonderful editing process.

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[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

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[SPEAKING IN HINDI]

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So I really enjoyed being
able to get really close, even

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though I am slightly
allergic to bees,

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which was something that--

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--because very,
very close to them.

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But it's really cool
just to be able to see

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the process because I'd
never seen it before.

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So seeing them working
the bees, they're

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really, really
comfortable with them,

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so that was really exciting.

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Something she mentions, a
lot of the women mentioned,

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was that they'd never heard
heard of beekeeping before.

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They'd never viewed that as a
process before Under the Mango

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Tree went in and really
worked with them.

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She said she's a
master [INAUDIBLE],,

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which was something
kind of incredible

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because it gave her a
little bit of a step up.

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It gave her a greater
experience working

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with Under the Mango Tree.

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And being able to improve
herself economically and also

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socially was something
they talked about.

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They talked about
being able to talk

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to more women in
their community being

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able to work for their
community, which was something

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they really appreciated.

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She was one of the
first people I filmed.

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I don't know if
I mentioned this,

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I've never worked
with iMovie before.

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I've never [INAUDIBLE]
films before.

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So I'm an international
relations and sociology

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double major, so this
was something very much

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outside my comfort zone.

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But I'm really
glad that I did it.

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He was one of the men
I worked with in one

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of the villages that
are really incredible.

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It's cool to be able to
see a different culture

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and a different country
in a different light.

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And I know a lot of
foreigners would never

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be able to get inside
someone's house.

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Where some of these footages,
I'm filming on top of beds.

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I'm filming from rivers.

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I'm filming from cow pens.

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I'm filmed everywhere.

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So it was something
very, very different.

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And that was what I was
doing for the majority of--

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in Mumbai in August.

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I was editing all of
those footages, which

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might seem-- if you've
ever done editing work,

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it doesn't seem very daunting,
but It is, especially when

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you don't know the language.

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So translations were
a big struggle for me.

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Making sure the
light, the sound,

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every little clip making sure
every little voice that you

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wanted taken out, that
was a really big challenge

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But I also really
appreciated the opportunity

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to work in a small business like
Under the Mango Tree because I

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was able to see-- even though
I was working with a not

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for profit team, I was able to
see what the for-profit team

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was doing as well.

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They had honey packages
right in the back room.

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I moved all around
the office every day.

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It was an incredible
experience because I

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was working with the owner,
who is also an MHC alum.

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And also being able
to work with people

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from all different backgrounds,
which I really appreciated.

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Even though they
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they were all from
different parts of India.

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And they were all bringing their
own backgrounds and resources

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to the table, which
is incredible.

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It was something I
really like about working

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in a small business.

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Moving forward, I'm
really, really glad

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that I was able to--

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moving forward,
I'm really glad I

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was able to work in a
small business in India.

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And it's definitely
something that I'm

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really proud that I did And
I know that now I would also

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like to work for the for-profit
teams to see what they're doing

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and [INAUDIBLE].

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