Myself & Suvarnaben (owner of the school where I am working) on our way back from Amadabad having a tea break
This is our driver Dilawar Bhai
Traditional Gujrati Dress
The girl in the red dress and white scarf is one of the teacher's I was working with, her name is Mayuri. All the other's are her family. I was invited to their house for dinner, they might not have had alot of luxuries but they had a big heart which was the most important thing to me.h
A worker carrying cement
This is a place where the cows are looked after and fed it is called guvshara.
I went to visit Guvshara and feed all the cows, there were so many disabled cows who needed lots of treatment.
I organised a meeting with all the locals in the village to arrange for the village to be cleaned and to make everything hygenic. In the villiage the people do not even have a toilet or a bath or shower .
The kids making a puzzle
The result
Kids playing
This is one of my students called Umesh .
Kids playing with the puzzle
Myself and the cow keepers (guvshara)
savarkundla Guvshara
My lovely kids
These kids live in the slums and live in mud huts. I realised that these kids really appreciated everything they had and were so bright and clever. The children were coming to school with no shoes as they cannot afford. The uniforms which they are wearing have been recently donated and also shoes have been donated.
The owner of the school ( Bhaskarbhai) I bought some toys from London for the kids
Wwe had a meeting with all the teachers to discuss about the children
It was mothers day in London my children gave me money and asked for me to buy all the kids ice cream for mothers day/
Mothers day, the children were so happy to eat the ice cream they kept asking me the folling day when will we get ice cream again. The children really appreciated to have the ice cream.
Look at their faces :)
So sweet
The kids really appreciated the ice cream, it was money worth spent. Ice cream for these children is like a luxury
Teachers having ice cream
Going to school with the teacher
Look at how cool i look :)
High school children (morning assembly)
Kids enjoying simple toys
Girls orphanage, in this orphanage there is one room where 6 girls share, there is only one matress each and just a little cubourd like a small box. Some of these girls have no parents, some girls live far from their parents.
I organised dinner for all the girls at the orphanage
Dinner for the girls daily is very simple, this dinner is treat for them.
My train compartment, my way back from pondicherry to amdabadh
I made friends with this couple, they were very nice and friendly and looked after me throughout my journey
Park Guest House in Pondicherry, this is the garden where I would relax and read after teaching the kids.
Nirvana school Kids in Pondicherry
Nirvana School
This is the library in Nirvana School which was organised by myself Pat and Sue. We colour coded all the shelves to make it easier for the kids to understand.
This used to be a dirty room with mud, Myself Pat and Sue also volunteers from London cleaned and organised the room and turned it into a Library.
I went to the Mother Theresa home for severly ill children, there was a mixture of kids, some was disbled, mentally handicapped, blind. It was very difficult for me to visit this home as it was very sad. I was doing some voluntary work with the children for two hours a day as I could not do any more. I donated some books and pencils and toys for the kids, I also donated nappies and babyfood.
Womens hospice in Pondicherry, the lady in the wheel chair makes clothes for the hospice, she is provided with a small sewing machine. The lady in the blue sari does flower arranging for weddings, funerals etc.
I went to the Hospice in pondicherry to distrubute food and entertain all the people and put a smile on their face. The women never have any visitors, I just wanted to make them smile and give some food as they only get basic food everyday.
This is the mens hospice, these men are blind and handicapped, nobody to visit them or talk to them.
This is where I was staying In pondicherry
My view from my room
I was doing voluntary gardening work at the auroville centre which is combined with the arbindo ashram. Please take a look at the website http://www.auroville.org/
Tea time after a long days work in the heat...
Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity
This is a Bunyan tree which is about 100 years old.
Morning assembly at the Nirvana School
This is where the kids sit at break time, I helped to paint the wall behind the bench, it took 6 hours to finish the wall but it was well worth it to see the childrens face once it was finished.
Nirvana school playground
I stayed at Morari bhapu's house in Mauva
Morari bapu is a famous preacher.
This is a famous Singer Manubhai Gudvi, we met in Mauva.
Look at me :)
I went to a town called Palitana in Gujerat, this is a temple called Jain Temple. I was speachless
This is one of my students called payel, she is 5 years old and I was very close to her. Payal had a problem with eye where her socket popped out, she cannot see from her eye, I tried my best to arrange a operation with her parents consent to have her eye pushed back in. I am waiting for some hospital reports and will make sure I follow this up.
This is a cotton field
This is the kids classroom
All my kids xxx
I was on my way to school and saw these kids playing on the streets, I spoke to these three kids and asked them why they were not at school. They said that "why should we learn where will I go ? I will end up in the farm with my parents anyway. I told the kids that they have to learn so i told them to meet me at a certain time everyday and that I would teach them in my own time as they were not registered in my school. These kids knew nothing when I first met them, after two months they could write their name read a little bit and could count from 1 to 50. Two children was 12 years old and one was 10 and at their age they did not know even how to write their own name.
