H.A.V.E.’s three-week tour 3 years ago in 2006 involved 6 volunteers: three people from Vancouver; two from Haliburton/Minden, Ont.; and I, from Glovertown, Nfld. It started in Kolkata and finished at Chennai. Our second and most recent six-week, 2009 tour consisted, for the first 12 days, of three men (two from B.C. and one from Newfoundland); and for the remaining period with two women for a total group of five volunteers. In our second tour, we travelled in reverse of the first by starting in Chennai and mostly train travelled up the East Coast (via Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, and West… [ read more ]