Cardinal Quarter Fellowship with Sarvodaya in Sri Lanka

This fellowship, funded through the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, allowed me to intern with Sarvodaya. I worked closely with the Executive Director evaluating some of their online systems, including their Monitoring and Evaluation Systems, and applying minor edits to some of them, for example their Deshodaya website template. Additionally, I built a local database management system powered by Microsoft Access. Although the project is still incomplete, I was a part of a team of volunteers debugging an online database management system. I improved on my investigation skills, database design with Microsoft Access, and ability to work well within a virtual team. I also learned a little bit of web development. This experience has highlighted some opportunities for growth in my programming skills. As shown on the picture above, I also assisted in whatever task needed to be done. This ranged from proofreading some of my colleagues' documents in English to participating in the office-wide service activities such as clearing grass because of a dengue outbreak. This was a fulfilling experience, and it also allowed me to see that I want to impact the world through for-profit activities.