{"id":5892,"date":"2018-11-08T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T11:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2018-11-08T13:48:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T11:48:25","slug":"first-week-in-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/2018\/11\/08\/first-week-in-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"First week in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>India, Mumbai<\/strong>:<br \/>\nAs part of my Bachelor degree in Social Work at Malm\u00f6 University I spent five months\u00a0earlier this year in Mumbai to carry out my field placement (Verksamhetsf\u00f6rlagd utbildning). The internship was with a non-governmental organisation called Vacha which focuses on girls\u2019 and young women\u2019s empowerment and education. Vacha is a term in several Indian languages meaning speech, articulation and self-expression and the organisation work to give the girls a voice and a platform to be able to speak up in their communities and public spaces. If you want to read more about their work in their community centres in and around Mumbai you can follow the link below: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vacha.org.in\/\">www.vacha.org.in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5894\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/files\/2018\/11\/20181103_1644061.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5894 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/files\/2018\/11\/20181103_1644061-169x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Going home in the &#8221;rik&#8221; Click for GIF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am now back in Mumbai for a MFS and looking forward to further experience this fast paced and intense life that this city, with a population of about 22 million, has to offer. The people, the food, the sounds and the smells. The culture, the colours and celebrations. The luxury and the poverty. The traffic\u2026 well maybe not so much the traffic but at least you always have something interesting to look at while you are stuck in an auto rikshaw. Surrounded by hundreds of other \u201criks\u201d, cars, motorbikes, trucks, dogs, goats, street sellers, all while in 36 degrees, breathing in the heavenly smell of pollution. How can one\u00a0\u00a0not I love it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5893\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/files\/2018\/11\/45614114_513294402472328_5340993068973686784_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5893 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/files\/2018\/11\/45614114_513294402472328_5340993068973686784_n-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/files\/2018\/11\/45614114_513294402472328_5340993068973686784_n-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/files\/2018\/11\/45614114_513294402472328_5340993068973686784_n-768x1035.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/files\/2018\/11\/45614114_513294402472328_5340993068973686784_n-760x1024.jpg 760w, https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/files\/2018\/11\/45614114_513294402472328_5340993068973686784_n.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adventures in South Mumbai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>India is the fastest growing economy in the world. However, not everyone seems to be onboard the fast moving train of progress. The Indian middle class might be growing but there is, for example, a gaping rural-urban divide as well as a gender discriminations when it comes to economic progress and development.\u00a0So yes there is a whole bunch of inequalities in this country. Not only economic, but also when it comes to social rights\u00a0 and opportunities. But there is also good things happening:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/single-use-plastic-ban-india_us_5b3a09b6e4b0f3c221a28a07\">A ban of single use plastic<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5388231\/india-decriminalizes-homosexuality-section-377\/\">Decriminalizing homosexuality<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above links are just two examples of big top-level decisions. However, on grassroot level great things are happening every day. I have seen this during my internship and I get motivated by these hardworking people that want to see positive change in their communities and country.<\/p>\n<p>So follow me on my two months minor field study to see where it takes me. In my next post I will introduce you to my project and the organisation I will be working with &#8211; Men Against Violence and Abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Take care of eachother,<\/p>\n<p>Petronella<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India, Mumbai: As part of my Bachelor degree in Social Work at Malm\u00f6 University I spent five months\u00a0earlier this year in Mumbai to carry out my field placement (Verksamhetsf\u00f6rlagd utbildning). The internship was with a non-governmental organisation called Vacha which focuses on girls\u2019 and young women\u2019s empowerment and education. Vacha is a term in several &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/2018\/11\/08\/first-week-in-mumbai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dFirst week in Mumbai\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[441,434,628,449,36,626,333,590,502,627,34,625,629],"class_list":["post-5892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hs-socialt-arbete","tag-development","tag-education","tag-empowerment","tag-gender","tag-indien","tag-inequalities","tag-kandidatuppsats","tag-malmo-universitet","tag-malmo-university","tag-men-against-violence-and-abuse","tag-mfs","tag-mumbai","tag-social-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5903,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions\/5903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogg.mah.se\/mfs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}