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    TP Reflection Paper - Puroo Duggal

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    The student believes their team collaborated well on a project about rehabilitating waste workers in South Asia. Their solutions included raising awareness, conducting education camps, fundraising, and donating to organizations helping waste workers. While the team made considerable efforts and raised funds that could really help waste workers, they could have done more to raise awareness. The student also learned about the cultural and caste-related aspects of why some groups end up as waste workers in places like India. Overall, the project helped the student better understand the severe physical and mental challenges waste workers face each day.

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    The student believes their team collaborated well on a project about rehabilitating waste workers in South Asia. Their solutions included raising awareness, conducting education camps, fundraising, and donating to organizations helping waste workers. While the team made considerable efforts and raised funds that could really help waste workers, they could have done more to raise awareness. The student also learned about the cultural and caste-related aspects of why some groups end up as waste workers in places like India. Overall, the project helped the student better understand the severe physical and mental challenges waste workers face each day.

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    The student believes their team collaborated well on a project about rehabilitating waste workers in South Asia. Their solutions included raising awareness, conducting education camps, fundraising, and donating to organizations helping waste workers. While the team made considerable efforts and raised funds that could really help waste workers, they could have done more to raise awareness. The student also learned about the cultural and caste-related aspects of why some groups end up as waste workers in places like India. Overall, the project helped the student better understand the severe physical and mental challenges waste workers face each day.

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    The student believes their team collaborated well on a project about rehabilitating waste workers in South Asia. Their solutions included raising awareness, conducting education camps, fundraising, and donating to organizations helping waste workers. While the team made considerable efforts and raised funds that could really help waste workers, they could have done more to raise awareness. The student also learned about the cultural and caste-related aspects of why some groups end up as waste workers in places like India. Overall, the project helped the student better understand the severe physical and mental challenges waste workers face each day.

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    Reflective Paper

    Overall, I believe that our team collaborated well. Each group member responsibly
    carried out their tasks and participated in discussions with utmost interest. Our topic
    was chosen mutualy, where everyone put in their inputs and decided upon working
    towards the rehabilitation of waste workers since this is an issue very prevalent in South
    Asian countries such as India.

    Evaluation of the project Outcome

    Our group solution included all of the best points from our individual views on what the
    team’s solution should be. While formulating our solution, we decided to do as much as
    we could to work for this issue and hence, decided to raise awareness, formulate a
    research paper, conduct education camps as well as collect funds to donate to certain
    organisations working towards the rehabilitation of waste workers.

    I believe that we have made a considerable effort in completing the aims of our project,
    which are to raise awareness about the lives of waste workers. Our outcome video,
    educational camps, bake stalls, research paper, video, website, brochures and
    Instagram page all contribute to working towards this aim. According to our peers, the
    amount we were able to raise was astounding, and would really make a difference in if
    not all at least some waste workers’ lives. However, our team could have made more
    efforts to raise awareness about the issue, by for example, placing informational posters
    in our societies and school.

    Despite the research that was conducted by our team, I believe that there is a lot more
    information that could be found to formulate a better solution for rehabilitating waste
    workers and providing them with a profession with dignity.

    Evaluation of own work processes

    In my opinion, I feel like I was very productive in the areas where I took charge, and was
    able to efficiently divide roles to get things done. However, it was difficult for me to make
    agreements with every team member’s viewpoints at all times, where sometimes I
    pushed up my ideas over others, slowing our team’s processes
    During the research process, we all divided to learn about specific areas according to
    our interests. For example, I researched about how robotics can help clean septic tanks,
    minimising the need for manual scavengers, due to my love for computer science.

    Teamwork

    One challenge I faced working in a team was gathering all the team members to come
    on meeting calls to work on our project goals. Sometimes, it really frustrated me when
    my peers did not come online for meetings as I felt that this would delay our goals.
    Even though working as a team posed several challenges for me, I was able to learn a
    lot from my peers’ viewpoints and perspectives. Our team was able to successfully use
    the diversity of views in our group, to provide others with multiple perspectives. This can
    be evidently seen in our research paper where several perspectives of our team
    members have been clearly stated.

    Own performance as a team member

    believe my presence in the team provided the team with more knowledge and
    information about the technical aspects of the project. This was due to my fondness of
    technology, website as well as video editing. I have made several websites and
    professional videos for previous school projects which gave the team the required
    experience to make the same. However, I felt that I brought more disputes to the group
    because it took me a hard time making decisions and . To improve

    Learning about different cultural perspectives

    At first, I believed that waste working was a menial job that people living in poverty had
    to resort to in order to earn some money. However, when Narayan and I conducted an
    interview with Mr. Shreekant Chandan, we started to understand there was a cultural
    aspect involved where casteism played an important role. People from lower castes and
    scheduled tribes are usually the ones who face discriminitation and have no other
    options than to become a waste worker, especially a manual scavenger.
    Learning from the whole project

    Throughout the duration of this project, I learnt many issues that arise from being a
    waste worker, especially a manual scavenger, both physical and mental. I had severely
    underestimated the severity of this issue. The moment I released how big the issue is
    we are working on, was when Narayan and I visited the Ghazipur landfill, only to see the
    harsh and unbearable conditions workers had to pick and drop waste in. The entire
    region was filled with high speed dust winds and ofcourse, terrible smell, which we
    could only wonder how working everyday for years can be possible. Where even I felt
    uncomfortable interviewing waste workers for the project, I can only imagine the
    discrimination and prejudice they would face in their daily life and how it would impact
    their mental health.

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