Tuesday 9th June - Indian school!

Some of the local schools went back after their summer holidays yesterday and this morning I went into Ryan International School which is an Indian fee paying school. Some of the Vision Rescue team do an assembly in the school and today they were working on some drama and music with some of the children. The children were excellent. They were immaculately dressed in their school uniform, were very attentive and worked so well together. The fact they wofked so well was made even more impressive because there was a roller-skating lesson go on in the same room. We were in the basement and every child in the school is taught how to roller-skate to improve their balance and coordination. It was very interesting to watch. The behaviour of all the children were fantastic and the school sets very high standards. I will be going back into the same school on Thursday morning. I had some free time this afternoon and then went with the bus on the late shift. This meant I got to visit Reay Road and see how the children were getting on with their new school uniform. As we arrived I was delighted to find lots of children running towards the bus with their red t-shirts on. They all looked so smart!! I was amazed that so many of them were clean which means they are looking after them which is great. Some of the smaller children who come just for the feeding still look very dirty and so we gave them some water to wash themselves. One 10 year old boy's eye was closed up and very swollen. I asked Joshi (one of the teachers) to investigate and the boy has boils under the eyelid. The boy said he had seen a doctor but nothing had happened. When we found his mother she told us that it was the local medicine man, from the slum, they had seen but the medicine he gave the boy had no effect. Knowing that he needed to be seen by a proper doctor, Joshi made some calls. The mother was very keen that we help her son so one of the Vision Rescue team is going to pick them up in the morning and take them to the hospital - I will update you with how he gets on! A lot of the kids at Reay Road are quite small and some live with other relatives in the slum because both their parents have died. One of these children is Dongu, who is the little girl in the picture above. She is only 4 and has very wild hair. Despite her situation she was so cheeful whilst waiting for her food.