Four distribution days, seven sites, 1650 bedkits, many kilometers over some iffy roads, traffic the same as previously reported – and all is well.Email access is thin, our signs have not shown up but otherwise everything else is reasonably on track.
The kids are fabulous. Have you seen happier kids than those in this picture?
We have left Mumbia and are several hours north in Dahanu. This area is an agricultural area with rice, mangoes, vegetables, hay, water, buffalo, chickens, and of course lots of villages and people.
It seems everything in this region is done by hand: thrashing grain, stacking hay, hauling produce and water, butchering chickens, and washing clothes.
Little kids get to wash the dishes.
We are theorizing that India will leap from an agrarian to a high tech country in one leap.
Doug MacDougald,
for the SCAW 2007 Mumbai Travelling Team
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