Noémie Gaddarkhan – Student from Guadeloupe at Sciences Po. Paris

Coming from a famous family of Guadeloupe, Noémie Gaddarkhan has always been very clear about her ambitions. With a father entrepreneur and a mother teacher, she learnt the importance of hard work to reach success.

Like many students, she left home for cold Paris after her graduation and joined Sciences Po. (Political Sciences), an international institution of higher education with a large network worldwide, India included. Her ambition is to specialize in International Affairs and the internships abroad will help her fine-tune her professional projects.

Very involved, she is part of the association of the students from French Overseas Territories and organized last March during their one-week convention, a conference about the Indian Diaspora presence in the former French colonies. She invited several scholars to explain the indentured system, which is out of French History books, and she now understands better her Indian heritage. She also had interesting testimonies from her friends and family who went back to India and feels that now she has to go too.

She heard about the Government of India’s Know India Program and hoped to be able to join soon.