I met some pretty amazing ladies during my stay in Calcutta. The Hope Foundation seems to have a knack for attracting enterprising, fearless and altruistic Irishwomen. I now have about half a dozen adopted Irish Mammies - bloody inspiring they are too. Anye and Noreen, two nurses from County Cork, were volunteering for a month leading a project to survey levels of childhood malnutrition in the slums. Before they left, they each requested a drawing. This guy - a Rickshaw puller from Kalighat (Calcutta is the last city in India where hand-pulled rickshaws are still OK) was a gift for Noreen.
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