10th June - delhi

We thought getting up for 5.45 was early but today we started yoga at 5.30am!!

We ended up doing 2 hours of yoga! tryig out some new poses and more crazy breathing things that milly couldn't do. We finished with some meditation but I got told off for looking around...6 times. He said that the next time he comes we have to take some water up one nostril and blow it out from the other one,THEN we have to take a piece of string and push it through one nostril so it comes out the other....thank goodness he didn't come today...

After this we went for a walk with Salaam Balak Trust, the organisation we are going to start volunteering with. We went on what they call 'walk into the street life of Dehli'. It's a charity that aims to help chilren that have run away from their homes os lost or have been separated from their family due to various reasons. The most suprising reason being the love of bollywood films for running away to big cities such as Delhi or Mumbai. The chilren usually end up in railways so we began our walk in New Delhi station. Our guides were street children that had ran away when they were young and been taken in by this charity an looked after for 10 or more years. Now theyare in their late teens (18-20) and ready to start university.

We learnt a lot on this walk, about where the children go, how they survive and how Salaam Balak trust finds them and then can support them.

We went to one of their shelter homes and met some children who had been taken in from the streets. They all wanted their pictures taken and to shake our hands. They seemed very happy. We look forward to starting our volunteer work in the girls shelter Arushi.