For Harshal Jain, moving to France for higher studies came with many of the markers of a promising young career. The Jamshedpur native secured admission to one of the country’s leading business schools and landed an apprenticeship that covered her tuition fees. Yet after starting work in advertising, she realised the conventional career path was not what she wanted and decided to leave her job and explore volunteering instead.
That decision took her away from the routine of office life and into a very different experience of Europe. Jain first volunteered at an animal shelter in Germany’s Black Forest and later began creating content. She eventually received an opportunity to volunteer with a French family living in a 17th-century château, where she now lives as part of a large multigenerational household.
