Chanting and querty keyboards

The chanting starts at 5.30 am and is played by the farmer so loud it wakes me, the farm workers and animals and any one within a half mile radius. The song chanting words swirl round and round in the air until it becomes just a background to the sun rising and the start of another day, I love it!

A day full of progress in the women's computer class. There are 8 beautiful ladies dressed up to the nines with embroidered saris and gold jewellery, all have a red mark on their forehead to donate they are married woman. The projects aim is to train women with job skills. We set the three computers on the floor and with all the women sat crossed legged waiting to start, two computers promptly crashed. I had set up a touch typing software programme which marks for accuracy and speed so had to move on quickly to plan B. We drew the keyboard onto paper and used that to familiarise everyone with the keys and all it's variations.

Angawari - day care centre. On arrival we walk all the toddlers to the weighing station. We pass their mums in beautiful saris washing cloths in a stream by the side of the road, which unsettles one or two of the children who start to wail. The weighing station was a room with a hook on the ceiling and the children are placed in a canvas trousers bag and hung up to be weighed, they looked so funny just dangling there. Each weight was recorded and the child removed and another put in the canvas pants.

We all walk back up the hill, past the washer women, past the dogs, past the cow and calf, over the bridge back to school and not even an Education Visit Form B1, Preliminary Visit or Risk Assessment Form 3 had been completed!!

Primary School - 16 pupils aged 7 to 12. Some quick, some shy, some very weak having problems writing their own name. We group the children into fours, do some number games (cards we made last night) and get started with new exercise books and pencils. BIG SMILES!!