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I was just reviewing this blog about to start new and noticed this was never published. We kept pretty busy while I was in India last May. I took a lot of pictures but never got time to blog. Also they had poorer internet than I have in Nigeria.
This post will be a lot of pictures and few
Padali is a small farming village near Jamkhed. We went there Tuesday morning and accompanied the Village Health Worker on her rounds to visit some of the people in the village. The village health worker is a person, usually a woman, in the village that is a volunteer. She receives a month of training and ongoing training from CRHP(Comprehensive Rural Health Project). The purpose of our visit was non-technical. We were to visit people, speak with people, learn about the people. When CRHP comes to a village they spend several months just getting to know the village. Becoming friends. Our task was to observe and interact with the people and the children. We were in four student teams with a social worker or other member of the Mobile Health Team as our interpreter. The Mobile Health Team are CRHP employees who go from village to village working with the Village Health Workers and various organized groups in the villages. The village health worker we visited was the mother of the social worker we were with. She spoke no English so her son interpreted for us.
As we started down the first street these kids were standing by their artwork. The house across the street was decorated in anticipation of a wedding that evening.
This village of around 250 homes is fortunate to have a continuous water supply. However, I noticed that some of the pipes are broken and the water flows continuously. The water supply is from a well beside an artificial lake. This area is in its fourth year of drought. They believe the water will flow for ever but that is because it has flowed for a long time. I am afraid that the water that is wasted today will be the water they won't have in the future.
At one home we stopped at two ladies and a young boy was sitting in the shade make thin round cakes. I am not sure what cereal they were using. They mostly grow sorghum in this area along with millet and wheat. The grain was boiled and pounded to the consistency of yogart.
It was spread onto a piece of cloth and then transferred to the large piece of cloth on a bed. After they had filled the bed they carried it out into the sun to dry. They are making these only for personal consumption.
A kitchen.
This is one of the older homes that is still in use.
Shows the thick rock walls the oldest walls do not have the chiseled rock fronts.
Temple near the center of the town.
Inside the temple.
I was just reviewing this blog about to start new and noticed this was never published. We kept pretty busy while I was in India last May. I took a lot of pictures but never got time to blog. Also they had poorer internet than I have in Nigeria.
This post will be a lot of pictures and fewPadali is a small farming village near Jamkhed. We went there Tuesday morning and accompanied the Village Health Worker on her rounds to visit some of the people in the village. The village health worker is a person, usually a woman, in the village that is a volunteer. She receives a month of training and ongoing training from CRHP(Comprehensive Rural Health Project). The purpose of our visit was non-technical. We were to visit people, speak with people, learn about the people. When CRHP comes to a village they spend several months just getting to know the village. Becoming friends. Our task was to observe and interact with the people and the children. We were in four student teams with a social worker or other member of the Mobile Health Team as our interpreter. The Mobile Health Team are CRHP employees who go from village to village working with the Village Health Workers and various organized groups in the villages. The village health worker we visited was the mother of the social worker we were with. She spoke no English so her son interpreted for us.
As we started down the first street these kids were standing by their artwork. The house across the street was decorated in anticipation of a wedding that evening.
This village of around 250 homes is fortunate to have a continuous water supply. However, I noticed that some of the pipes are broken and the water flows continuously. The water supply is from a well beside an artificial lake. This area is in its fourth year of drought. They believe the water will flow for ever but that is because it has flowed for a long time. I am afraid that the water that is wasted today will be the water they won't have in the future.
At one home we stopped at two ladies and a young boy was sitting in the shade make thin round cakes. I am not sure what cereal they were using. They mostly grow sorghum in this area along with millet and wheat. The grain was boiled and pounded to the consistency of yogart.
It was spread onto a piece of cloth and then transferred to the large piece of cloth on a bed. After they had filled the bed they carried it out into the sun to dry. They are making these only for personal consumption.
A kitchen. This is one of the older homes that is still in use.Shows the thick rock walls the oldest walls do not have the chiseled rock fronts.Temple near the center of the town.Inside the temple.
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