Chugchilán is a typical village in the Ecuadorian Andes, a lot goes on, but nothing happens. All the men wear gumboots and all the women wear colourful shawls. There are plenty of cute, grubby faced kids and almost as many animals in town, as people. There is a town square, lined by a church, and a volleyball court. Sunday is market day. The rest of the week the atmospheric comings and goings of clouds comprise the majority of local traffic.

Monday, 26 April 2010

26 abril, lunes


Why would a child be walking to school with a bunch of spring onions? Maybe it’s all they had for lunch. What a terrible lunch.

Well at least it’s better than the kid who is going to school with a piece of firewood.

School lunch is provided in Chugchilán, not by the school but by children. Each child brings a vegetable to school or in some cases a piece of wood for the stove and the mothers take turns to cook up the haphazard assortment of ingredient into a meal for the kids. Hence the reason all the kids walk past with a vegi or piece of wood in hand.

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