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Eugene and Yen's Trip to India June 2004

An honest man's wage - this farmer works from sun rise to sun set every single day, only earning himself a wage of NZ$0.25 a day.
These boys tend their flock from a young age – they call it helping the family survive, we call it child labor. We treated them some candies.
Pottery here is done the traditional way – a large stone on its pivot is spun with a stick while the clay is worked on by the potter. Here Eugene puts his pottery skills to the test under the guidance of the potter.
Mixing with the locals (outskirts of Lucknow)
This little girl paints a vase like the one in her hand in 8 minutes. In the background is clay ready to be molded into vases, cups and pots.

Eugene and Yen were housed in the YWAM base Guest House while in Chennai. Here is a picture of them with the Chennai DTS Staff.
Receiving water supply - women are usually the ones that work and care for the home.
A man using a hand pump in the outskirts of Lucknow.
The two girls on each ends were incense and jaw sticks traders just outside a mausoleum in Lucknow. There were literally hundreds of these little stands on both sides of the road leading to the mausoleum. Here, Yen's disbelief at the sight is captured!
Our little tour took us to a small farming village deep in the outskirts of Lucknow. This is a Hindu prayer house where we stopped to speak with some folks.

This is Medicine Alley in down town Lucknow – with literally hundreds of shops in these cramped and crowded alleys. You can find any medication, prescribed or otherwise, for NZ$1.00 - $2.00 for a week's supply. Many of the missionaries here send medicine bought from these dodgy looking places back to their families all over the world. This is still cheaper even after paying for postage by courier.
The people’s general class train is sardine-packed.
Micro-lending is an ingenious concept that has given hope to those in the lower strata of society. Here, we are in a 15x15m home during one of the weekly group meetings where these ladies meet to discuss their business.
Train journeys were the highlight for us … there were many interesting things to see, smell, and many things to throw out of the windows, too!