14 September 2009

Polio Drops

A couple times in the last couple of weeks, we have come home to find odd writing in chalk on the wall of our house. We've been stretching our brains to the limit trying to figure out the meaning, and were only enlightened yesterday afternoon. Apparently it is part of an effort to keep polio from spreading to the youth of India. The polio drop ladies go from house to house giving medicine to children. They mark the wall outside the door to keep track of where they've been and what homes have children. They also set up a little station at the top of the hill the other day. You can see the silhouette of a child taking his or her polio drops on the banner below.

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