#raineyasha blog – day 9 – Wednesday 2 November 2016

#raineyasha blog – day 9 – Wednesday 2 November 2016

Today we got to spend another exciting day in the slums. We continued with our usual morning of painting and decorating the resource centre. The men tackled the outside, giving it a much needed coat of fresh paint and they all agree that it now looks much fresher and more welcoming. While a group of us went out into the slums to continue with our lane visits. Today was the turn of Caitlin, Hannah, Sarah H, Stuart and Miss McCracken. They enjoyed talking to shop keepers, dancing with the children and taking in the views of the jungle (so called because of its dangerous conditions, with wild pigs, water snakes and jaguars, all surrounding a lake of stagnant water) which surrounds the slum.

 

One houses that we visited today was freshly painted with beautiful floor embellishments for Diwali, the cleanliness put some of our own rooms at home to shame! It was great to see how businesses, health and living conditions have been improved through the work of ASHA, and is heartwarming for us to see how money raised is being applied to their daily lives. When they got back we all headed out for lunch. After finally passing the mass of water trucks, we arrived back at the resource centre to begin lessons. Today we taught the parts of the body in the English lesson, with the boys giving a tuneful (not so much) rendition of head, shoulders, knees and toes. The craft lesson involved creating a frog, with varying success due to frog legs and glue issues. While we were finishing up our lessons some of the college student girls came and shared their artistic skill with us by beautifully decorating our arms and hands with some henna, which we greatly appreciated!

 
We finished our day in the slums and headed back to the hotel for a quick turn around before leaving to get some well deserved Chinese for dinner. We all thoroughly enjoyed today, but called it quits after dinner to go back for an early night.

 

Love from, Caitlin and Alice