Market stall

Another market stall is over from the 26th of February for 6 days at the Clock tower, the stall was looked after by Johanna and Eliane with two Jodhpur project participants everyday. The stall did very well and we think it will be a good idea if we made one stall once a month in the city center in tourists season.

Visitors

My friend Ms. Ernestine came from Austria with 6 friends they stayed with us for 5 days. It was soo nice to see her and to discuss ahead with the Sambhali Presentation. All the visitors from Austria were very friendly and nice. We went to Setrawa village and visited the project. It is very nice that they show soo much love and respect to our work and that they have given us the opportunity to represent Sambhali on an international level. We celebrated Holi before the actual date of the festival with them; the festival is celebrated for truth winning over evil.

Ms. Chloe (advisory board member to Sambhali Trust) and Mr. Francisco from UK returned for a few days after their travel in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Ms. Margret is having a good time despite the language barriers.

Ms. Martha from Holland is making a documentary in Jodhpur on garbage collectors in India, she is staying with two friends at the guest house for 4 weeks. At the moment the guest house has quite a number of long term guests.

I suggested Martha to involve Meera’s (Sambhali Trust Jodhpur project graduating participant) son Rohit to be part of the movie, because Meera’s husband is garbage collector and a Dalit by caste. Martha liked the idea and visited Meera’s home, Rohit has the video camera now and is filming his life for 4 weeks.

Setrawa

Setrawa project is doing very well, the volunteers raised some money and took different projects to run, they also suggested us to put 3 girls, Guddi, Laxmi and Maya, in school. With their help we managed to give the three girls a platform of school. Read their report about it.

Ms. Griselda and Ms. Helen are leaving the project on 7th March 09. We are thankful to them for going out of their way in helping the project with everything necessary that they thought is required for the Trust.

Our teacher in Setrawa project, Ms. Rekha, got married and had to leave the school. We have requested her sister, Ms. Usha, to take over as local teacher in Setrawa project, she accepted our invitation with a smile.