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How a trip to Rajasthan gave two Toronto families the gift of perspective.
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How a trip to Rajasthan gave two Toronto families the gift of perspective.
Local girls dressed in traditional garb to perform for the Me to We group visiting Kalthana Primary School in Rajasthan.
The author and her daughter Bronwyn join the group on a surprise camel ride.
Kids in the Me to We group try their hand—literally—at turning a waterwheel in the village.
The author lays bricks at a school construction site.
The local schoolkids are fascinated with visitors' phones.
Danielle Dudtschak follows the steps of the "water walk," which village women take up to 10 times a day, to fetch water from a central well.
The Dudtschaks (Simon, Justin, Kirk, Rosemary, Nicole and Danielle) ring in the new year dressed in Indian dhotis (for the guys) and saris.
Cattle are numerous (and sometimes adorned) in rural Rajasthan.
Nicole Dudtschak is reunited with her primary school buddy as the Me to We group visits the villagers where they live.
"Of all the things we could have done, the kids wanted to go back to the school because they were getting such a sense of accomplishment from building the wall," says Kirk, looking back.
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