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A New Teacher

This is Priyanka, our new first standard, B section “junior teacher.” We are up to seventy-five 1st standard children!! Usha Madam (the Headmistress) hired Priyanka yesterday, during another great teacher’s meeting. She will have to pass her 10th standard boards in September to be promoted to a full teacher, a “Vidya Volunteer.”

Priyanka is holding onto a new “ladyfinger,” a veggie commonly grown in South India. Beeb, the cook, used that ladyfinger and six others just today in the school lunch. Thanks goes to Ismail for helping to start the school garden.

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