Pictures from daily life of "our" children of the Primary Education Program Kirtipur

At home:

The family of Raj	Rujina - good at languages - is living here together with her mother	Sailu's is unemployed due to a serious illness.
Asmita's mother is earning money by doing laundry for other families.	Leeja's mother is daily wage labourer on construction sites	Asmita: living together with sick brother and parents in one room
Jesan's family	Here poor Sangita is living, ....	. . . left alone with a terrible burn at her foot!
Bunu's mother is sharing the right part of this building  with a second family	10 sqm for three sisters with mother.	Traditionally the elder sisters are responsible to care for their younger brothers and sisters
	Also Prashant is living with mother, job-less father and little sister in one single room of the house depicted left.   Puja was met by her mother and her little brother after classes.

At school:

Many children from remote villages have a long way to school	A call for common morning exercises is usual at many schools!	First Primary class at Bal Kumari school
First Primary Class at Indrayani- Primary School	After the breaks they have to line up before classes are continued!	Sports tournaments are very very welcomed at the schools!

After school in front of Kirtipur Secondary School	Tables are not common in traditional families, home work . . .	. . . has to be done on the floor or even in the court of the house

Playing around:

	The toys are very modest, yet the children are happy!!

Serious business:

Despite hard work in the brick factory these children are looking happy  when meeting the foreigners.	Many children earn some extra income for the family by selling souvenirs for tourists.	May be he can find some usable items in the rubbish!?
Mother's lesson how to make gravel for some extra income	It's looking easy, but being hard work: bringing water from the distant well!	Ice cream is sweetening the hard life of the young monks.