Sambhali Trust April-May 2007

Khamaghani,

Off-season is here again, no Guests and it is extremely hot.
The building over durag niwas for sambhali trust is also completed, i am adding a picture here. It looks great. the front of the durag niwas guest house building also look nice with the new construction. I hope you will all like it.

Sambhali has now for the literecy program 36 students 20 girls and 16 boys.We have Miss Johanna from Berlin as volunteer with us for 3 months to teach Basic english. To Survive the heat and 36 students is a tough job. Meanwhile our guest Mr.Alain from France who i Know since i was 14years old have planned to give french lessons to people in Jodhpur , Alain has put post in newspaper and many people got intersted, the french class will be for 2 months. Alain wanted to stay for some time in jodhpur and do something , i thought of Proposing him to teach french . Many people have been calling and showing their interest. I am happy for Alain because he has some work he likes to do and can spend some of his time in jodhpur from his 5 months in India .

I am adding few pictures here. A picture from Saroj and her sister, sambhali trust 'empowerment of harijan women project participant from her marriage.

A picture from the meeting i had with the families of the girls after been vocally attacked and thretend for my life by the community men of our girls because i was trying to help with the uplifment of the WOMEN from their community. I was trying to get some help from the men in the meeting for my security and to spread the word from our project and what good we r doing to their community and their new generation.

A friend from Kolkatta'fashion desiner called Kamlesh'came to the project and gave our girls lessons on measurments.

Govind Singh Rathore.

Kamlesh 'Fashion Deziner friend'and the Measurment Class

Yohanna Our Volunteer for Sambhali April 29 - July 25th,

reports from her classes would be posted soon , every 15 days we have decided to put a report online from her experiances volunteering working with our Trust.

Meeting with the family men members of the Project Partcipants to have some security on my visits to their area ,While visiting the families of the girls and other women from the communtiy one day i was vocally attacked and thretened for life from the jealous and insecure men of the communtiy .

Durag Niwas Building you see in this picture but the room on second floor with 4 windows in the picture belongs to Sambhali Workshop.

The Far one in the picture is Saroj and her sister got married recentley , this girl is our first partcipant who got married while being involved with the project, she now lives in a town called Nagur 250km away from Jodhpur.