20091104 - Women working on a construction site

Today on our way to the SAATH office, we noticed a commercial construction site with women as labourers. As we had heard about this situation at Mahila Housing SEWA Trust and we also had an interview with women labourers earlier this week we were intrigued. These are women that have not gone to the SEWA Karmika school but they are the daily wagers (so they earn about 50-60 rupees -equal to 0,75-0,85 euro- a day)... It is really a strange experience to see women working on a construction site like this...



In the evening we went with Arjun (CSC) for dinner. He took us to a very good restaurant near the highway, where we had a delicious dinner: garlick chicken, chiken tandoori and some other variations on chicken and mutton. And local prices :-) It was great!



P.S. What I consider really strange in Ahmedabad (this maybe the case in all of India, but that I don´t know) is that vegetarian food is about the same price as meat (chicken, mutton) if you can find it...