Mice are regarded as a very tasty dinner. They are cooked whole with the fur still on. I did not try them!!!

Me with my host mum and Tankia her daughter, preparing the dinner by stripping the stalks from pumpkin leaves. They are cooked to make a relish. Not very tasty!

Pounding the rice in the garden. It was grown in the family's fields. The straw roof in the background was the toilet - a pit latrine.

Women washing their clothes in the river. It was quite a walk from the village.

Getting water from the bore-hole. Before the village got a bore-hole, the water was collected from the river for cooking and washing. It was amazing to see the women carrying containers on their heads. I had a go and couldn't even lift the container off the ground!

A lot of learning was done by rote - all the learners chanting together.

Inside the classroom at Gosheni school. Only 2 classes were in roofed and completed buildings. One class met outdoors under a tree and one other was in an unfinished buildings like this one. The others had a roof but the walls were not completed.