Trip to India - Part 2

So in this blog post i'm going to talk about the work i did out in india. As I previously said we were in India for two weeks during this time we did a mixture of working with a local village and school but also doing some ecological work. 

Before I explain the ecological work, let me just explain. where we were staying at wildernest we were in-between two animals conservations in the wild. The ecological work consisted of going to an area and checking for scat (poo) of animals to see which animals had been around the local area recently. Sounds pretty disgusting but it was fascinating to learn you can tell what animals has been in an area just by the shape and size of its scat. We also located smaller animals such as snakes and scorpions. We also interviewed a man to help try and get protection for tigers in the area, something which the local people were struggling to do. 

                     

The second part of our work was working with a local village and a school. This was with out a doubt the most rewarding part of the whole trip. We helped a local village build a vegetable patch in there school to help feed the local village. It was kind of a 'half term' for the local children but they still came up and helped us every day in there school uniform but also barefoot! They shared all there tools with us, which were your average gardening tools you would buy at a local Homebase or B&Q. It was a lot of manual labour but was a very rewarding experience to be apart of. 

Before shot of what the soon to be vegetable patch looked like

After shot once we were finished 

We separated the ground into levels so they could plant different things into each section. Minus a few very large rocks which we impossible to move we were pretty happy with how it turned out. 

Once we had finished we returned to the school for one final time to receive a thanks from the heads of the village and the children sang us songs and gave us flowers they had picked for us. We also got to play games with them before heading back home to England.