VIIS hosted the Global Service Learning program for the participants of Cornell University for the seventh year consecutively. The group of 17 students was led by Donna Ramil, Associate Director of ILR International Programs and student services and Ms. Tara Sarkar as student teaching assistant. The program combined academic sessions, immersion activities and service learning projects. The students followed four major courses Culture and Civilization, Gender, Health Care and Economics in India. The field visits to coffee plantation, cultural sites and public health facilities helped the students connect with their classroom sessions. After the two week of academic program, the students took up service learning projects in the on-going programs at SVYM, GRAAM, Sneha Kiran Mysuru Spastic Society and J. Purushottam and Associates, Mysuru