Yesterday we spent a full day at Baluwa Village. You may recall us blogging on this before…
We went to Baluwa to check on the progress of a number of projects. Firstly we visited the local primary school to see the new toilet block under construction. The foundations have been laid, and a septic tank dug out. While we were there two young boys were busy bringing the bricks to the site. All day they carried bricks into the school yard (there is no vehicular access) on their backs. For this heavy labouring they would earn around NRs 200 in a day. That’s less than $NZ4. Another local was busy cutting the steel reinforcement for the foundations. Its great to see this Rotary project underway.
We visited Gobinda and Sunminas homes. Sumina was the lady with the broken arm, her home had a leaky roof. It has been replaced with a tin roof, providing for a dry home in the monsoon. Sunminas arm is slowly healing with CDRA’s support for her medical treatment. The roof and arm both needed urgent attention, and CDRA provided the funding for both. Please help support CDRA with these costs.
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| Sunmina showing her healing arm |
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| Sunminas home - with new tin roof |
Gobindas home had become structurally unsound due to a lightning strike. His home is currently being rebuilt, the ground floor has been mostly completed. This will be used to house the families goats. They are currently living at the neighbours. CDRA has provided some initial funding to get this work underway, $$ are urgently needed to complete the home.
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| Rebuilt ground floor of Gobindas home |
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| Gobindas wife and child |
During the day I gained a new respect for the village women. We always see them carrying their loaded dokos, or other large loads on their backs. These are carried by straps around the forehead. 53 year old Nanda was carrying a load of maize to feed her animals, half an hour to her home. I asked to try carry it for her, it was a real struggle!! The load was 40 – 50 kilos, and while she made it look easy I could not assist her to carry it home. It is the women’s job to look after the households animals, so it is usually the women that carry these heavy loads of feed.
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| Nanda carrying maize load |
We also met Sanker again - please help him have his operation! (see blog: We need your help!)
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| Sankers home |
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| Sanker greeting us from his home |
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