Nisha Chaudry, a customer service agent for Alaska Airlines, volunteered with Interplast as a coordinator/translator for a surgical team trip to Dehradun, India in February 2009. Thirteen years after her last visit to India, Nisha was eager to see exactly how changed her homeland was. With high expectations, some anxiety, but mostly excitement, she embarked on both a personal journey and a quest to help others.
Recently, Nisha wrote about this journey and her experience as a volunteer, and the story was published in Alaska Airlines’ employee newsletter. She mentioned, “As a translator, my job was to ask the long line of people waiting to be seen at the clinic how they were injured…I was struck by the physical and emotional pain they live with. It was easy to feel despair, but, instead, I found hope in the eyes of these strangers.” To read Nisha’s full story click here.
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