Day 4

Today was a big day for us. 2 schools and a lot of walking! By the end of the day we had finished installations and orientation in 2 schools. The first one was Jana Jagriti Lower Secondary School which was only about 5 minutes walk. We had encounters with lots of leeches on the way but finally made it safely to the school. We saw that the students were drinking water directly from a pipe that was lying on the ground and was being stepped by their friends. After we completed the installation of the water purifier, we went to each class to talk to the students about the importance of clean drinking water. We also distributed water bottles to all of the children there.

With the principal of Jana Jagriti Lower Secondary School

Then we went back to our hotel to pack up and be ready to leave. After arranging 3 porters we were all set to leave. After about 2 hours of walk we reached to our 5th school. We saw that there were 15 deaf students  enrolled in the school. The management and the students were all very generous and we received overwhelming response from the people. They were so thankful we came. They gave us such warm hospitality  that we forgot it was about to get dark. Playing volleyball with the kids may be one reason. As you might be guessing, we did walk in the dark with only one torch to be shared among 8 people walking on a rough route. We reached where we had to by 8 PM and managed to arrange enough beds for all of us. We knew by looking at all the beds that we were going to have a rough night ahead. We will know how the night goes by tomorrow morning!!