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Published: April 15th 2011
After rafting and Chitwan we had one day to recover in Kathmandu before heading off to the village of Lubhu to do some community work. This is one of the villages where two of the other volunteers are teaching, so all the girls stayed with one of the host families while the two guys stayed with the other. Our project for the week was to paint the walls of a hostel attached to one of the schools. It is where either orphaned children live, or those whose families are extremely poor and can't are for them. When we first arrived the walls were bare concrete and it was very dirty - our job was first to paint it all white, then paint the lower half of the walls brown so it wouldn't show the dirt so much, and finally to paint a bright colourful mural on the upper half of the walls. After much thought we decided to do a 'world' theme for our pictures. On one part of the wall we painted a world map, on another a selection of flags, on another the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids, and finally the Bodnath
stupa from Nepal. When we had finished at the end of the week everyone at the school and hostel seemed very pleased with our work, and on our last morning we were invited to the school for breakfast, where they also presented us with tikkas, scarves, and a small statue of Buddha. I was surprised at how attached I had become to the village in just a week (some of us even played football with the boys from the hostel one evening!) and I felt sadder than I had expected having to leave - don't know how I'm going to be able to leave Godavari when the time comes!
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Juliet Hurst
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Wonderful flags!!!!
I love the work you guys have done...do any of the locals know what the Eiffel tower etc is? Must be fascinating for both you and them!! Spring has hit London 22 degrees here..brilliant. We have been away in our "Emma" to Derbyshire, but due to G getting knocked off his bike by a demented woman in her car, no walking was done sadly!! Continue to have fun and keep the memories! much love Juliet xx