Lindsay Lohan is off to India to work on a BBC-poverished documentary about the impoverished children in the nation’s notorious slums.

Sources close to the Mean Girls actress tell The New York Post she is happy to leave the troubled relationship with her dad and the constant on/off flings with Samantha Ronson behind for some time to participate in the worthwhile effort.

“She is excited about escaping the drama of LA and doing something real….”