Bangladesh and India have again been hit by a cyclone. This time she was named Aila. So far 130 people have been reported killed; I don't know whether this is in Bangladesh alone, or it includes the ones in India.
We had a bad storm, but the cyclonic weather never reaches this far north in the country. Here trees were uprooted and houses broken. Sonkar, the older brother of one of our students, reported that Omika couldn't come in because she had had to help recover bits of the house and work on rebuilding it again after the storm.
For the children the blessings come in the tradition that any fruit that has fallen on the ground may be collected by anybody regardless of where it fell. In this picture two of our students are using the time before the first class to gather mangos.
Like the students in this photo I had to use a towel in stead of an umbrella. A towel is hands-free and doesn't get broken like my umbrella did when the storm blew it inside out.
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