At Helping Hearts Creche in Porayar, cook Jayanti, prepares lunch for the children and staff. Here you can see her using an ancient implement for peeling ginger and cutting vegetables. Hard boiled eggs and fish are served on different days once a week. Chicken is a special treat once a month. No beef here. Cows are sacred animals in the Hindu faith. A HUGE pot of rice is always on the lunch menu. These children have hearty appetites and hungry stomachs.
In addition they receive breakfast porridge and a high protein snack before going home in the afternoon.
Following lunch the entire staff pitches in to clean up and wash the dishes at the water pump in the creche yard. A bit of coconut husk makes a great scratch pad for scrubbing pots and pans.
In the meantime the childen take a long nap after lunch. On awakening they have their hair combed and faces powdered with
talc in preparation for going home.
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