The Village Houses

This house has just two rooms

These two houses are very close to the school and have only a very small patch of land attached on which to grow  crops.   The basement of the house on the right is  used as a stable for the goat and buffalo

There are  8 people living in the farmhouse pictured below.   We walk through the yard and past their front door each morning on the way to school  There is always a row of rubber flip flops outside as Nepalis  remove their shoes before entering any house. There are 4 children in the household and 2 of them come to school with us

. The  Grandparents also live with the family. 

In front of the house there are crops drying on straw mats  At the moment they are drying rice, spinach, millet and lentils. There is also a pile of cow dung  being dried but it is out of shot on the right.   It is collected in baskets by the women and then used to fertilise the soil.  Grandmother in the picture was very keen to show me the coffee beans that they have just started to grow

   As well as picking crops and carrying grass for the animals she also looks after this delightful youngest member of the family who was very grateful for the remains of my packed lunch today

The Mother and baby buffalo and the two goats  are usually kept  in the cowshed at the side of the  house but for the last two days they have been grazing on a small plot of land nearby

The kitchen is on the left below, with its spotless pots and pans, which are all scrubbed clean outside each morning  using water from  the well.   The bedroom, which is also used for storing grain, is on the right.