CFFN Community Centre Day
Day 29
Turns out, we’re only staying in Madi for the one night. The meetings we’re having today with the locals regarding the status of the community centre and a new farming project were over fairly quickly, and there’s little reason to stay around.
We stayed at Pramod’s brother Megh’s home. His wife made excellent food. I have yet to find a corner of this country where the food isn’t short of amazing. They wanted us to stay another night, but by leaving today, we can stay in Kusma overnight, and make it back to Pokhara tomorrow. It breaks up the travelling time in a nice, convenient fashion.
The child care centre is a short but impressive hike up from Megh’s house. We went quickly in the morning and met a few kids who were waiting outside. The teacher arrived shortly thereafter.
The building is a nice one, it’s built very strongly. Though it isn’t yet complete, it is currently being used for the kids (before the centre was being run from someone’s home). It still needs a bathroom, kitchen, and to be finished with paint, concrete floors, and cleaned building supplies removed from the outside. All this should have been done by now, but the community is energized to be finished within the next five months.
When we returned to have the meeting, there was a large group of kids playing with Duplo blocks and a ball. They were shy of me at first, but as soon as I started taking pictures and showing them, they became my best friends!
Leaving Kusmesara – the hike is impressive in both directions – there were no Jeeps. We crammed inside a milk truck of all things to traverse that dangerous, muddy road. There were instances I thought for sure we were going to tip over on our side, and/or off the road! I didn’t sleep on this trip.
We stopped and picked up a woman with a huge basket of fresh oranges. She sat in the back with the milk. Crazy! She was nice though, she shared some oranges with the people in the cab. They were the freshest, juiciest oranges I’ve ever had!