India 2

The Dog is Mightier than the Monkey


Bangalore still


Writing Friday, September 28, 2007, but reporting matters of Thursday...

I was visiting schools and a clinic that my company is supporting for (very) poor children in India.

The workshop project we are involved in is making cable assemblies and low voltage switches which we use in our products in a factory a few km down the road. More India photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamroscoe/sets/72157602230328682

The girls are all orphans and disabled and are looked after in a hostel and do paid work for us. They have a 100 percent quality record and we pay them the going rate for the work! A real win-win and a proper good sustainability project, in my view - giving people wages and self-respect.

The pic of the guy and the dog is amusing - mainly because the minute i saw the dog on the roof of the school i started to back away as I had been told to avoid dogs because of rabies...(Please see: Pink Panther, Peter Sellers scene: Does your dog bite? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXn2QVipK2o) I checked my jabs...and it was a good job I avoided the dog.

Anyway - the guy in the pic is the school principal and explained that they liked this dog, because as long as he was lounging around under the tree, it stopped the monkeys coming into the school...

Never a problem at my school - there again, 50 to a class and having to take lessons sitting on the floor wasn't a problem there either. :-(

Doctor Anand Jain (pictured) works for free, but has a clinic in the hotel where i am (you can get a facelift or eye-bags eliminated here in a full operating theatre) and also works in one of the city hospitals. Top guy. He had just diagnosed one woman with TB and arranged for her to go to hospital.... I checked my jabs.