Just to show you I haven’t just been running around having violent diarrhea and playing with elephants*; I thought I should post some pictures from my work area.
The women I’ve been empowering on a daily basis all live in the Kathputli Nagar slum; and range in ages from 11-65. The girls above are left to right- Pooja, Sapna and Deepa. Sapna is hilarious- her name is Hindi for dream; but we call her Bura Sapna; which means nightmare. She's best friends with Deepa; and always bosses her around but in a kind of sweet, protective way. Deepa is very bright and her English reading is amazingly good; although she's so quiet you have to lean in to hear her. I'm trying to get her to read out loud more to make her more confident.
This is Janki. She has three kids and sometimes they come to class with her. She's awesome- whenever the younger girls are getting fidgety and acting up she goes into this tirade of virulent sounding hindi and I don't know what it is she says; but whatever it is; it works She gave me a Rakhi bracelet for sisterhood and now her kids call me Aunty Ji; which I love. She's only just learning to type but her average has gone up from 1wpm to 7 which may not seem like a lot; but it's an improvement of 700%; so go Janki!
This is one of the boys that always hangs around outside the classroom peeping in the windows. He really wanted his photo taken; I'm going to give him a copy as soon as I find somewhere to print it.
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