Being a maushi ("aunt," or, the generic term for the cleaning women/before-school supervisors/kitchen manager/pre-school aides at AIC) at the Education Outreach Centre is certainly not the most...glamorous job imaginable.
Cleaning the centre multiple times a day, food prep and service, maintenance work, hauling water, bathing unruly children, combing lice out of said unruly children's hair, taking out the trash, washing an endless stream of school uniforms by hand - the AIC maushis are truly the backbone of the program's day-to-day functioning.
Claudia, Education Program Director, had been looking for an opportunity to show them a little appreciation, and when she heard that a full-scale replica of the Taj Mahal was coming to Pune and would be on display not far from the Education Centre, she decided that a maushi excursion was in order.
Having rarely been outside of Yerwada, and certainly never to a world heritage site, seeing the Taj Mahal replica was a rare treat for the group!
Thank you, Pinchu, Anju, Paru, Rekha, Swati, Chhaya and Sarika maushis for all that you do at AIC!
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| Paru maushi, supervising |
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| Laundry, never-ending laundry |
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| Hauling water from the underground tank |
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| Swati maushi |
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| In front of the Taj replica |
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| Admiring the details |
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| With Claudia didi |
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