Delhi and Molar Bund

After a night of much needed sleep, we began our day with a passionate information presentation on India’s history and culture led by our trip facilitators, Tera and Anita. Following the presentation and lunch, we drove over to Molar Bund, a slum school in Delhi, where we toured and worked with the 12^th grade girls in setting up for the school wide carnival this Friday.

Our Global Ed. group is reading the novel Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo. The book notes how with increasing wealth, the Anawandi squatters’ sheet walls turn to brick ones, but, sadly, this transition rarely occurs. On our ride home from Molar Bund, I looked out the bus window to the curbside dwellings and noticed the crowded conditions. Some of the homes’ walls were sheets – others bricks. Seeing these homes brought Boo’s novel to life. At home, I could imagine the lack of privacy, the roaming livestock, and the stench caused by the lack of sanitation described in Boo's book. My imagination, however, could not fathom reality.

-Morgan McNair  

Photo Collages by Alison Cohen