“I see working on this project as a break from my day job. I think that working in the corporate world gets very monotonous and so at the end of the day, or even during the day, if I have some time, I always am working on ways to collect more money or spread the word.”

“I’m from New Orleans and so after Katrina, I felt the refugee experience first-hand and I was really lucky,” Jain says.

Because the town is the official home of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government in exile, it’s a very popular tourist site — which drives up the price of food, Jain says. Refugees can’t pay tourist prices, and the high altitude makes transporting food difficult.

“Originally, I wanted to help them build a radio station,” Jain says. “But my contact there, Ngawang, the program director in India, said, “look, right now what we really need is a kitchen.’”

Jain was fortunate enough to have family in Houston, Texas to provide him shelter, but despite his protection, Jain could not stop thinking about those who were not as lucky.

Soon after Katrina, Jain spent the first two months of the summer helping gut houses in New Orleans. There he found a volunteer organization based out of Tulane University that would allow him to teach English to Tibetan refugees in India.

Jain works an engineering day job in Northbrook, but has found the balance between work and this fundraising project easier than expected.

“I have always had multiple things going on in life. While I was in school, I was very involved with ASB and WNUR and on top of that I was in McCormick,” Jain says.

“It was sort of an accident that it happened to be Tibetan refugees,” Jain says. “It didn’t matter to me who the people were.”

“One of the big ideas for this organization is Tibetan cultural preservation, so it would really encourage people to cook traditional Tibet food which I think is really important because there’s less and less people cooking that food,” Jain says. “It would be a great place for them to practice it or even give foreigners cooking lessons.”

Jain’s fundraising path to helping others, though, first began with destruction in his own hometown.

Jain spent the summer of 2006 in a town located in the Himalayas named McLeod Ganj, a spot for refugees to escape to during this period of Tibetan and Chinese struggle. He came back to Northwestern with a passion for their cause, which he carried with him through graduation.

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