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We have yet to write about three of the most important days we've had here so far.
1) When we went on a tour of the Dharavi slums (the largest slums in Asia) in Mumbai with Reality Tours
2)When we went with Anupam and his NGO, REACHA, to teach Mumbai kids about energy conservation
3) And, for me, yesterday-- when I went with Yatna to to meet the Lambada tribe outside Hyderabad. We'll be filming a documentary about them and the unfair medical practices being pushed upon them. Their language has no written form (though some also speak Telugu) and they have been nomadic for hundreds of years, so they are at a serious disadvantage when it comes to education and healthcare. (I'll go into it more in another post)

Its hard to right about this ultra-important events because I want the post to be an all-encompassing article for each. We will probably end up back-tracking to post our narratives and photos of these days (with the exception of Dhavari-- no photography allowed, which I think is good). For now, I can say that a common thread was my surprise at how kind and open the locals were to our prescence, and how much I learned by seeing their lives and interacting, even with huge language barriers.

For now, it is Sunday morning and we need to go meet Old Hyderabad, its markets and architecture!