The second day of our field was very interesting, yet ineffective. We seem to drive around aimlessly from village to village and see if there were any health care workers that we could speak with. In the end we only conducted two group discussions that didn't give us much information on reproductive health but voiced many concerns about water scarcity.
Women doing drought relief work, they fill the bowls with stones and dirt and carry them on their heads in order to contruct a type of dam. When I ask where the men were, I was told that they were the "supervisors" who oversaw the project by sitting in the shade and smoking beedis.
This women is from one of the lower castes in the village, they wear bracelets that span across their entire arms.
Very barren land but you can see the turbine field in the distance.
A well that was installed by the government a few years ago. Many of the groundwater sources here are contaminated with excess fluoride causing a crippling disease called fluorisis in many people. There are no water testing or water treatment facilities so many people are sick before the well is shut down. This leaves them with the only option of buying water tanks from trucks that drive around the area.
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