Chembakolli

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Chembakolli

• A Village in India

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Chembakolli

• Chembakolli is a village in India.
• India is quite a large country on the other side
  of the world.
• A lot more people live in India than in the UK.

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Chembakolli

• In Britain there are 59 million people
• In India there are 929 million people!

In Britain, 11 of the population lives in the
countryside. In India, 73 of the population
lives in the countryside.
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Chembakolli

• Chembakolli is a small village in the south of
  the country.
• It is situated close to the Nilgri Hills area of
  the country.

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Chembakolli

• The village is about 30km by dirt road to the
  nearest small town - Gudalur, and 200km from the
  nearest city Mysore.

The Nilgri Hills are in between Chembakolli and
Gudalur
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Chembakolli

• The land around the village is mainly forest.
• This is not the best land for farming, even when
  they clear some trees so that they can grow crops.

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Chembakolli

• The people there do grow a lot of things,
  however. They mostly grow things such as rice,
  onions, tomatoes, peppers and oranges. These are
  mainly used for feeding themselves, rather than
  selling them.

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Chembakolli

• One thing that is grown and sold, however, is
  tea. Companies such as Clipper Tea have set up
  trading with the villagers.
• Here, some women work picking tea leaves so that
  they can earn extra money.

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Chembakolli

• Life is different in Chembakolli. They do not
  have the luxuries that we have in this country.
  
• For example, if you want a drink of water, you
  turn on the tap. In Chembakolli, you would need
  to walk a long way AND THEN carry it back home.

Normally, the women carry 10 to 15 litres of
water on their heads!
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Chembakolli

• As well as carrying water, the women also
  have to gather wood for fires so that they can
  cook.

Normally, the women carry up to 20kg of wood!
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Chembakolli

• AND THEN the food needs preparing!
• This woman is beating rice so that it can be
  eaten by her family.

This can take up to 3 hours a week to do!
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Chembakolli

• All these things YOU can do in seconds in your
  house!

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Chembakolli
Here is a artists picture of Chembakolli look
at it carefully
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Chembakolli
Heres some questions
Where is the school?
Where would you go to sell extra food?
School
Market
Temple
What was this building?
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Chembakolli

• So there are actually some SIMILARITIES between
  where you live and Chembakolli.
• But there are also plenty of DIFFERENCES as well.

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Chembakolli

• Some of the pictures you have seen were of a
  lady named CHANDA. She lives in Chembakolli. She
  works very hard.
• The following is a list of things she does in a
  typical day

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Chandas day

• Chanda wakes up at dawn, lights the cooking
  fire, washes and prepares breakfast - a porridge
  made from yesterday's left over rice.
• Chanda's husband leaves for the tea fields.
  Chanda eats her breakfast. She then takes all the
  dirty pots to the well to wash. She also collects
  enough water for the day.

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Chandas day

• Chanda carries the 10 litres of water back home.
  It takes about 30 minutes to walk from the well
  to her home.
• She tidies up the house and sweeps the floor.
• Lunch is prepared - rice and vegetables

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Chandas day

• Chanda takes her 2 sons to the visiting Doctor
  so that they can be vaccinated against whooping
  cough and measles.
• She leaves her sons with her older daughter, who
  is 10, while she goes to work in the tea fields.
  This means that her daughter cannot go to school.
  
• Chanda arrives at the tea fields. she picks the
  ripe tea leaves and plants new seedlings. She
  does this work for about 4 and a half hours.

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Chandas day

• She returns home to feed the family. When they
  have all eaten she goes to the forest to collect
  wood for the cooking fire.
• Chanda attends a village meeting

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Chandas day

• She returns home and begins to prepare and cook
  the family evening meal. When her husband returns
  from the field where he has worked all day,
  Chanda will feed him, and then eat herself.
  Sometimes there is only a very little food left
  for her. 
• Finally, Chanda sets up the family bed. It is
  one long mattress which is stored during the day.
  It is brought out at night and covers most of the
  floor of the house. Chanda and her husband may
  sit up and talk for a while using a lantern for
  light. they then go to sleep.

WOW! What a day!