We are back from three days in Dahanu a few hours up the coast from Mumbai. We stayed on the beach with many "interesting views" of the Arabian Sea. On our way, we stopped in Palghar, Airport, and Boisar in order to distrubite 400 bed kits to the children.
We then stayed the night and were up bright and early to get on our way to Borivali and give out 350 more bed kits. We were greeted by a group of girls and boys playing the ledgeums- another wonderful welcome.
At Dahanu we were invited into a typical village home to see what life is really like for the children from this area. The house was made of cow dung, straw and sticks, with no electricity or windows to provide light. It was an eye opener for all of us to see.
On the way home to Mumbai we stopped in Talwada, North West, and Mulund to give out 554 bed kits. Tawada had approximately 50 students from the deaf school there. A busy day which ended with us being three hours late for Mulund because we had to go down some pretty rocky, narrow roads along -- and then we had had a flat tire along the way. We managed to get there before dark and got set up to distribute all the bedkits before the sun went down.
A very busy few days with many hours spent in the car.
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