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What's new in school?


What's new in school?
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Copyright: Elaine springford (everlasting) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 815 W: 67 N: 1485] (9457)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-07-12
Categories: Daily Life
Camera: Nikon D 70, AF-S Nikkor 18-70mm, Digital RAW
Exposure: f/5.0, 1/100 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Travelogue: Burma revisted
Date Submitted: 2007-12-23 4:04
Viewed: 540
Points: 14
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Every morning, the students of this school start their day with a song. But it’s not the alphabet song or a nursery rhyme. It’s a catchy tune about scrubbing well with soap and water. As part of the Child-Friendly Schools project, UNICEF installed separate toilets for boys and girls and a clean water pump for washing on the school grounds.
Now the students can put in practice what they have learned through singing.
An estimated 26 percent of the rural population of Myanmar does not have access to modern drinking facilities and many schools have no water facilities whatsoever. The school walls have instructional posters that explain how to properly wash after using the latrine. Myanmar’s rural students can now study in cleaner and healthier schools, and perhaps influence the way their entire community thinks about hygiene.
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PS I have just received my new visa for Burma and will be travelling one week from today
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  • Paolo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4701 W: 146 N: 9014] (39619)
  • [2007-12-23 4:09]

Hi Elaine, beautiful one, a triple portrait, with high quality and a great composition. beauitful tones and interesting note too.
thanks, ciao

Namasthe Elaine,

Fantastic portrait of the kids..
Interesting notes...

HAPPY DAYS:)

jean paul

Congratulations for your Visa that finally arrived and I wish you a great time there. Interesting that in Laos I also found the same educacional projects concerning higienic issues from Unicef but also from many other projects financed by NGOs. I like your geometric framing here and 3 is allways a magic number. I would even crop a bit at right to get a perfect centrality, although I understand more space to the right since it's that direction they are looking at.
ric

Hi Elaine,
I like the way they are framed in the window and their different expressions are great. A lovely image with nice light.
Regards
Wanda

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  • Bien Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 502 W: 50 N: 947] (4685)
  • [2007-12-23 23:47]

Hi Elaine, Interesting note and lovely picture. I love visiting schools when travelling and I can not resist taking photos of the kids in the windows like here. The brown of the shutters mixes beautiful with that wonderful turquoise. Happy to read that you have your visa, a new journey can finally begin. Happy travels! Sabine

Hi Elaine
interesting portrait of these children at the window. I wish you all the best for Christams. have a nice stay in Myanmar
Bertrand

a critical,interested and astonished facial expression ... a good basic for education
Regards, Michael

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