This was taken at the welcoming ceremony for the Habitat teams. Not so interesting for this girl.
This lady was the owner of one of the homes we worked on. She was a widow who had to work in the fields to support her two children.
Village of Monayampettai School
School girl
Children playing on the street
Picking lice?
Doing laundry by hand
Villager women returning after a day working in the fields. They would earn about $1 for a days work.
Villager women returning after a day working in the fields. They stopped to watch us working on one of the houses and were amused to see foreigners doing manual…
A lady selling flowers outside the Natraja Temple in Chidambaram, India
Beggar outside the Natraja Temple in Chidambaram
Fish monger at the market in Pondicherry
Old ladies and their goats - Monayampettai
Old man and his bicycle
Some of the children and parents at the entertainment show that the village and Habitat India put on for us
A village elder watching the entertainment show
Traditional dancers
An acrobat, part of the circus entertainment in the village of Monayampettai a few miles north of Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu India
Traditional dancers and an acrobat in the village of Monayampettai a few miles north of Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu India
Part of the circus entertainment – The lady was blindfolded and used a knife to cut up a cucumber on the man’s stomach
