[div class="mxb"] [div class="sh"] Rural Indian children's photoblog [/div] [/div]
Children at a rural school in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh are running a photoblog about daily life in their village, Kalleda. The school gives children from poor families a free education. The photo project of the RDF (Rural Development Foundation) school has helped school children learn English, connect them with the world and provided the world with a window into rural India. [/p] Read the stories of three of the young photobloggers and click on the links to view their photos.
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Rani: "A woman and her children were spreading the corn on the road to dry. It has to be dried out before it goes in the bags. "
"Kids from my village eating rice for lunch."
"This man was on his way to the field to load the cotton harvest."
"This man was waiting for his buffalo to come back from the field. He wanted to milk it. "
"My mum, Kethamma, was having her lunch at our home in Ravuru hamlet. "
"These are posters on the inside of the pesticide shop in Kalleda. Lord Krishna is the blue one next to the pictures of pesticide cans. "
"This toddy tapper owns this palm tree even though it is on someone else's farm. He leaves a pot in the tree to collect the sap, then the sap turns into toddy (palm wine). "
"Ravoor villagers going to the festival of Bathakamma. This is the most popular festival among Hindu women."