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PL867
29th November 2020
It's almost the end of the year! 2020 has (by no uncertain terms) been the most difficult year most of us have faced. However, congratulations are in order because we have all made it through... well, almost anyway! With December right around the corner, this also means that our beautiful warm Autumn weather has come to an end and winter has brought it's chillier temperatures to all of us here at the farm.
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Our cows enjoying the last few rays of the November sun.
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Three generations of cow herdsmen, Pailad, Narayan and Amir.
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A few weeks ago we gave our playground a new coat of paint. Now that the sun has lost it's shining sting, there's no better place to be throughout the day. Over the last fortnight, we uprooted and shifted a few pieces of equipment from the old kindergarten playground to our main playground which has also added some new fun for the kids.
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'The Scorpion' is a favorite spot for the Junior Girls to sit and chat.
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The refreshed playground has Vishwajeet's seal of approval!
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'The elephants' were also shifted over from the kindergarten playground.
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'The pyramid' was quite a challenge to shift, but our Senior Boys got it done.
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Malik conquering the pyramids.
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Vishal (and Rampal) did a whole lot of the digging to bring the new equipment over.
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Manisha enjoying the new wooden top on the seesaw.
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Swing away Niyati!
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The monkey bars even come complete with monkeys. Hi Shivani!
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Thank you Toni for funding this awesome renovation!
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With Covid-19 infection rates in India going from bad to worse, our kids continue to do their studies online, however there is a lot of confusion and misinformation surrounding the educational system. Coreena, for example, received a message from her university on Monday which said, "You must come and attend in-school classes on December 1st." However on Tuesday she received a message which said, "Due to government rules, no classes will be held in the school until further notice." It's definitely all up in the air at the moment, but we are getting by.
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Chandini also received mixed messages from her university.
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Online classes will just have to do for now.
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Jimika and Trudy donned their uniforms and masks to go to school and submit their practical tests for assessment.
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Jimika looks much nicer without the mask!
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Our year 11 students continue their daily online classes in the living room.
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Even though they have never met in person, relationships are already growing with their teachers from Trafford Public School.
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The big project this week has been the continuation of our fencing project which we will be working on over the next few years; it's a huge undertaking and we are self-funding it one little piece at a time. You may remember us making 100 posts in August... well, our fields are finally empty so we could start digging the holes to install them. Hopefully if things go well, we will have the wire mesh installed by next week's newsletter. This new section of fence encompasses our fish tanks and essentially creates only 2 entrances to our compound.
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Rick and the Senior Boys did an amazing job on the fence.
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Bill and Naresh digging the holes and putting in new poles.
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Looks pretty straight, Rick!
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If you are a subscriber of the South China Morning Post, you may have seen an article a few weeks back about a young photographer named Aman selling a photobook he created to raise money for our organization. After just a few weeks he has already raised over $1,000 USD for our organization! Clifton put together the little video below for Aman's website.
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Check out this little video Clifton put together this week for Aman in Hong Kong.
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Amazingly, we didn't have one single birthday over the last 7 days (which is pretty unusual around here) so this brings us to the end of the week! Rest assured, however, we do have a bunch of random photos for you before we part ways.
Thank you all for your awesome prayers and support. See you again next week!
Blessings on you,
Rick, Clifton, Priscilla and Eugene
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Priscilla put together 13 delicious pumpkin pies from the pumpkins in her garden.
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Manisha and her little sister Niyati.
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Jeff monkeying around with some baby bananas.
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Ganesh and Parwat working on a lovely new work bench for the Red Shed.
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Kallu and Silvester have continued driving tractors all week planting our wheat.
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Peggy and Esther cleaning the rice before it is cooked for lunch.
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Double casualties: Shivam with a cricket ball to the head and Ajay with a skinned knee. Thankfully, Priscilla was on hand to bandage them both up.
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It doesn't show much in the photo, however Shivam sure had a big bubble on his forehead from the cricket ball.
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Jimika bringing in some laundry under the setting sun.
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Dhiraj and Ajay selecting some guitar music for band practice.
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Jyoti, out and about working on her photography skills.
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Rampal working on a different skill.
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Shivani & Saloni, or is it Saloni & Shivani? We know... do you?
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