impressions
Phloona means to blossom out
The latest pictures of the construction site, which will be completed by June! So are six apartments meant to serve as accommodation for new, qualified teachers, and a common room, the Community Hall, which is now still under construction. In our meetings was discussed intensively, which could be the next project with “basehabitat”.
The students of „basehabitat“/Art University Linz
I would also like to specially dedicate a post to the students, of their dynamism and colorfulness they bring into the life of the village and also into the everyday work.
The workers the students work together with in Little Flower, are entirely young men who were unemployed and children of leprous parents in the border region between India and Nepal. Alcohol and drugs, smuggling transactions at the border are very difficult factors influencing the village, unemployment and lack of prospects – as we know that in all regions of the world – the most fertile ground for slipping into crime and violence. –
THE WOMEN from Little Flower
On the occasion of International Women’s Day I want to send you a photo greeting of the women from Little Flower … so-called eye cookies, as our photographer Wonge Bergmann calls them!
Spinning and weaving – the thread of life
There is always a lot going on here
The colorfulness and the hustle and bustle in the Khadi is an attraction in the village, and everyone likes to drop by! For me, there is always a must-attend event with the spinners – who then laugh a lot when my tricky spinning wheel always turns in the wrong direction –
Lots of humor is served at work and the cheerful “Klak – clack!”
The very little ones in Little Flower
The village kindergarten is in a good mood. .. with a good sense of humor and a noise level that you have to get a grip on first!
For Malti this duty is not difficult, she herself is a mother of two sons of secondary school age and has the necessary humor and love for the little ones to bring out the forenoon in exciting shape!
She is very pleased with the crayons we brought from Salzburg, and yes even about the toothpaste, because hygiene is part of the early education.
In the fields of Sunderpore
The wheat fields are weeded daily, then later in the year the rice fields, too -, we see especially the women, meter by meter move through the fields. The weeds are welcome food for the goats and cows in the village.
Two weeks in Little Flower, February 2015
While the students of Art University Linz / basehabitat spent five weeks building practice in Little Flower and thus initiated the last phase of the PHOOLNA project, which ushered the Community Hall in loam with bamboo construction, I was even accompanied by three traveling companions for a total of two weeks in the project.
It was an intense time, each marked by the most exciting, different perspectives, which Wonge Bergmann / Frankfurt
Children and their stories
I want to tell you some stories about children in Little Flower, how they live with their families or in the hostel, about their dreams and ideas, their thoughts and their hopes.
