My Hope for India by Gladis

My Hope for India by Gladis - November 2016 Scholarship Essay

Having spent half my life in Kerala, India, my fundamental beliefs and ambitions have been molded by India's rich culture and its devastating circumstances. In India, every saturday is a family outing to the local market. The gaping streets are filled with young vendors, desperately trying to earn a few rupees to purchase their daily bread for their families. Children, abandoned and destitute, sit criss-crossed in a straight line along the open tents of oranges and bananas. Vagrant itinerants in tattered mundus and disheveled countenances beg for water and rotis. The ghastly scenes are not movie stills or excerpts from a histrionic novella. The images are palpable, incredibly relevant depictions of India’s endemic poverty crisis.
My weekly visit to the central bazaar ingrained an indelible passion to serve the public. As years passed, I began to explore my academic interests. I quickly realized my zeal for the medical field and understood that the accessibility to medicine is vital yet nonexistent in the surrounding villages of my home. Medicine holds exceptional power in these sequestered villages. But such power comes with great responsibility.
As an aspiring physician, I hope to ultimately reform the current state of access and affordability to proper medical treatment in India’s slums. To be a physician means to carry the tools necessary to eliminate pain, cure diseases, and revitalize lives. By exercising my responsibility as a future doctor of medicine, my desire is to offer families a life of promise and escape. Through medicine, my goal is to create social and medicinal programs through which communities can achieve freedom.
Through the accelerated joint medical program that's available at university, such missions can be achieved earlier. The status of poverty is stagnant. Therefore, by obtaining my qualifications through the joint program, such cases of affliction and destitution can be prevented faster. By becoming a university trained physician, my vision for Kerala’s villages can essentially be a reality.
Ultimately, my aspirations for the villages of Kerala is dependent on time. Therefore, the accelerated program is the best option for my future endeavors. Consequently, I genuinely hope to be a ripple of change and progress. By providing affordable and accessible medical treatment, relevant information about the status of illnesses and feasible resources and jobs, people will be gradually liberated from the bondages of disease and destitution. I am most excited to work with esteemed international STEM faculty to spark a flame of change in some of the world's most impoverished areas.