Outside the Uma Nivas High School, near Dumrughuto Village
Arnrid Wood with some students
Inside the complex of the High School
Denise Goodson with students
A vegetarian diet is followed in the schools.
Arnrid Wood (back left) in class
Dormitory!
Denise Goodson relaxing
Arnrid Wood relaxing
Sister Didi Vratiisha in the Drumrughuto Village
Sister Didi Vratiisha!
The well at the High School.
The bus taking us to a wedding.
At the wedding.
Didi prepares the Bride.
Some of the High School girls.
Arnrid working at the computer - the electricity is always cutting out at the school!
The older girls are going to take exams in the town.
Sonita cooks for the Didis and the girls.
The kitchen for making the girls meals - fuel is dried leaves and dried cow pats!
There are no story books at the school - wish I had taken more!
A dance lesson.
Darjeeling - high in the mountains, is much cooler.
Darjeeling
The Harods Tea Plantation, Darjeeling.
Inside the tea factory
The factory was very clean and white!
A lesson on how tea is picked and how best to make the drink.
Once it was rich - now Darjeeling is looking "tired".
Harods Plantation
Darjeeling - The Tibetan Refugee Centre. Hand painted cards.
Darjeeling - Tibetan Refugee Centre. Hand Knitted Garments.
Darjeeling - Tibetan Refugee Centre. Hand woven babies booties.
Darjeeling Tibetan Refugee Centre. Self Help Centre.
The Refugee Centre. Beautiful woven rugs.
Woman spinning at the Tibegan Refugee Camp, Darjeeling.
Entrance to the Tibetan Refugee Centre.
Entrance to the Tibetan Refugee Centre
Arnrid in a Street Market
Street Musicians. Hand made wooden instruments. Darjeeling.
Volunteers helping with the education project.
Didi and some of the girls at the school with a soft toy that Denise took. They don't have soft toys and loved the few we happened to take. We have since sent some out and my sister sent a parcel of washed soft toys last week to the junior school at Uma Nivas. (It is a sunflower soft toy in the picture).
At a Clinic - there is no proper clinic. Didi Vratiisha takes her homeopathic medicines to the villages every 4 - 6 weeks if she can. A jeep is hired now to take her. 90 people came that day for her homeopathic medicine.There is no doctor's surgery or allocated clinic. Didi just takes it upon herself to do this for the local village people.
Didi at the Clinic
Every village has a well and a pond.
Tatuyara School. Lessons in the street - the building is falling down.
At the Uma Nivas School.
A welcome from the villagers of Tatuyara.
Village children
Didi takes biscuits to the village children.
Dumrughutu Village, near Uma Nivas schools.
The Bride is ready.
Going to the wedding.
At the school well.
Denise and Didi Vratiisha
Carrying heavy loads in Darjeeling
Cooler in the Darjeeling Hills.
Craftsmen carving - Darjeeling.
Fancy That?
Budhist Temple, Bobhgaya, where enlightenment was attained by Prince Gautama in 623BC
Tatuyara School. St. Andrew's are helping to build a new school.
Tatuyara School.
