Finally some news from us ENG

To start with, we want to say sorry it took us a so long to write. In the last weeks the thought about writing a blog article went down in all our new impressions. But now we want to catch up!

The most important news: we have new scope of duties. Since the beginning of September we visit the HOPE project (Health Opportunity & positive Environment for the BPL PLHIV and affected families) while the children are at school.
This is a project from NMCT which looks after HIV-infected people living  beyond poverty line. It includes financial and nutrition help, different trainings which teach the people how to deal with their illness in a better way and sustainable support due to the establishment of people-development-groups (kind of self-help-groups). Furthermore HOPE stands up for the rights of its beneficiaries on a political level.

We have met the people supported by the NGO and have interviewed them on their current situation. Our documentation work shall become part of a "success story". These stories are supposed to be used to later show the change in people's lives caused by HOPE.

For us this task is incredible interesting and enriching. Especially we like the encounter with the people. Even though we can only talk to them through the translation of the counsellor, we think that we get deep insights and are happy about the openness with which they meet us.

Still, we love our tasks in Abhaya and have taken the girls to our hearts.

At the weekends we started to do group activities together. For example we organized a "German Day" and thus introduced our home county. It included a geographical part, a German breakfast at Indian lunch time (because of the time difference ;-)), insights in the life of a German teenager, "Topfschlagen" (a typical German game) and making flags. To fulfil the wish of the girls we made waffles with pudding and nutella at the next weekend.

Regarding the Indian culture we have learned a lot during the last time: we have been to two marriages and visited the big temple in Madurai (214 km road distance from our place). Furthermore we could experience the Indian birthday traditions with our girls.