Cute kids & loos

Julley!
This week is our last full week of the project as Kate, Deb, Eric and Lea leave next Wednesday, July 25th. Theresa left last Friday so is home sweet home by now. (Hi Tree!)
Lex and Izzy will head out tomorrow on separate village trips (for a few days) with Ladkah-Hilfe (the German Physios) to see some more kids. Kate will continue to see kids and help train the speech assistants at the hospital with Dr. Namgyal. Deb and Lea will run a mental health workshop tomorrow at the hospital for some doctors as well as work on movie-making projects and see local kids in Leh.
So we are keeping busy and trying our best to stay healthy. Lea is resting after having a head-cold for a week and being really fatigued (no worries-she is being well taken care of). Its good to have connections at the hospital when we go for check-ups.

Here are a few more choice pics.

1st: The worst toilet ever! En route to the villages at a tea stop- despite the unbearble conditions, you've gotta go when you've gotta go! This one's for you Tree;)

2nd: Lex's fave community kid ever (from Achinatang village). Namgyal was a real ham for the camera and was rewarded with a new clapper toy.

3rd: Deb on her way up to the somewhat better toilet that we found at the same tea stop on the way back to Leh. Although there was more privacy, it was still so bad!

4th: Little drummer boy from Gongma village- so cute!

5th: The army evacuating Palzes, a little girl that Theresa and Lea met in Hanu-Gongma village with a new broken leg (after several previous fractures). She was brought to Leh for a cast, a diagnosis and physio.

That's all for now; we'll do at least one more post before the end.
Hope everyone is well,
Us.