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These photos were taken during our volunteer experiences in the developing world since 2000, and in countries we lived in or visited since 1960.
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Manjula, Kanchipuram, India
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Manjula, Kanchipuram, India

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  • A grandmother is pumping water to wash clothes, and carry back to her home in the pot, from a well in a village near Kanchipuram. Her grandson stands nearby. These wells are one of the only sources of potable water, and since there is very little electricity, and it is expensive, the water is pumped by hand. We were volunteering for RIDE, an NGO working to eradicate child labor in the silk sari weaving industry.
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  • This young boy was carrying wood back to his village near the town of Mahabilipuram which eventually was damaged by the recent tsunami. We spent a weekend there whiole volunteering and helping RIDE, an NGO trying to eradicate child labor in the silk weaving industry, to market non child made sari's and other child labpr free products such as batik which RIDE was teaching women to manufacture, to local outlets.
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  • These women were harvesting rice which would soon be spread on the ground and threshed.
  • This grandmother is pumping water from a village well which the whole village or community will use to obtain water.
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