This is the community where the MS Foundation is situated, here the people do not have proper housing and there is no proper food for them to survive.

This is not a good place for a family with many children and it is difficult to keep them clean and healthy.

This is a community nursery. The mothers have gone to work as coolies - carrying baskets of bricks or sand or sacks of cement on a building site.

The girl should be in school but she must work for a few rupees to help her family.

This girl is also a child worker. She just came back from work and is having her lunch. After eating her lunch she has to go back to her work .

She is about 12 years so she cannot do heavy work - perhaps making dolls and toys for children in other countries to play with.

The mother went mad and her four small children won't get food from her. Even the Father won't look after these children.

They do not even have clean clothes to wear. So Lavanya is taking them to be educated and have good clothes.

This is a pond shore, where every woman come to this place to wash their clothes and many of these are less than 15 years old and should be in school.

And they even bathe and wash in that water. It is not hygienic.

Before the start of the concert party Archana and Akhila sang an interesting song. The words are in Telugu and are something like:--

Please mother, let me go to school
I don't want to stay at home to mind the babies
I want to learn my alphabet and read books
I want to be an educated person
Please mother, let me go to school

In June 2009 we moved to a house which was just built. With some money from our sponsors, Holloways.org, we had a second floor put on it and a pucca roof that will keep out the monsoon rains.

The plants along the front are only a beginning. We have been given money by Callum Ruddock a student of Church Cowley Primary School in Oxford to plant some raised beds to grow onions and potatoes and cauliflower. These will be grown on the roof of our Principal's house next door.

Here is the WELCOME team. Each one sang a song and gave a little dance. From the left they are:

Meghana, Uma Maheshwari, Sharada, Laxmi Bhavani, Sathvika, Sumalatha, Swathi.

They will need to learn about computer theory and they are learning in English, which means they are learning two subjects at the same time. This is quite a challenge for them.

Here are the children playing a game of "Coco" in the alleyway oustide the school, which is effectively the school's playground. Fahima, who is dressed in the orange sari, is a teacher, and on this occasion couldn't resist joining in.

The game involves a catcher and 3 runners, plus 6 or 7 others who are sat down facing opposite directions. The catcher uses those who are sat down to his/her advantage, by sending an "electric shock" through them, in order to try and catch one of the runners, who will be further down the line. Sounds complicated at first, but it's easy once you see it being played.

Here, the children are playing a game of "Cupathi", which is an Indian take on the game of British Bulldogs, and also contains a Tug of War element as well.

Just behind the girl in blue who has her hand outstretched is a line. If she gets caught by those in the semi-circle and manages to drag them past the line, they are "out". However, if they catch her behind the line and she is unable to drag them past it, she is "out". All the while that this is happening, the girl must continually repeat the word "cupathi" until either her or the other players are "out".