Day 4, handicrafts and more...

Hello there folks!

It's the morning after the day before and we've got lots to report back on. We went to the towering empire of CMCT yesterday- a project that started life in a garage as a sewing bee with 3 young girls and is now a multistorey complex complete with a clinic, hostel, soup kitchen, orphanage, dentist, optician, chapel, laboratory, screenprinting studio, oh, and a workspace for 90 trained adult stitchettes- AMAZING OR WHAT?! The sewing space, which produces embroidered products for export all over the world, provides employment and much needed income for the women, but it's much more than that. As Rosaline, our guide and translator (who herself was an 'original CMCT girl' back in 1979) explained:

"Our main focus is building. We build people up!"

On telling them about The Studio, they were full of encouragement and shared their belief that their incredible success and growth has been all thanks to God. Our journals might need more pages!

Our evening was spent indulging in some chai and sweets with our new friend Thangam (from CT Philips) before returning to the guest house to have a brilliant game of 'silent disco give us a clue'. We'll invite you all round for a game of this challenging, expressive, energetic new sport when we get back.

By the way, did we mention the day's travelling adventures included going the wrong way up a dual carriage way in a rickshaw, taking 10 minutes to get across a road (we were finally assisted by a pitying local) and being taken mid journey to an extremely crowded and hectic petrol station to pour fuel into our little auto's tank!

Ps. Unfortunately not able to add pics at the mo, will add as soon as we can.