On our journey this morning, between two temples, we stopped at a small village to hand out paper and pens to some children. Sna, our guide, gave out small bananas too (called chicken egg bananas because of their size).
It was humbling to see how excited the children and their mothers could be by such a modest token. Poverty is a huge issue here. There are orphanages everywhere, not because parents have died but because they have abandoned their children. Many foreign agencies are setting up schools here, but youngsters are still slipping through the education net.
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