Debbie's Placement in India 2018

Today's trip to the field revolved around users of biogas again, and seeing the positive side of the biogas project. Manni took us to several houses where the families are using their biogas units effectively. All of the visits we were making today were in response to maintenance calls that people had made, as one element of the biogas project at the moment is that SEDS provides maintenance services free of charge. People had different maintenance needs, including replacing the biogas pipelines where they had been damaged by monkeys; replacing a corroded gate valve on the top of the biogas digester chamber; cleaning out corrosion inside the gas cooker itself, and so on. Shammy is an excellent repair man with a very practical and enquiring mind, and he seems able to turn his hand to any kind of repair that is required. Often a family member will be keen to watch Shammy work so that they can learn some of the maintenance tricks themselves too. So many colourful temples we d

Click on the first one and you should be able to flick through them, or scroll down to also see the captions Attending to the loom All of the saris on the looms are visible only on the wrong side. Imagine how beautiful the right side must look! The full height of the power loom. The golden-yellow coloured threads running up to the top of the machine are wires which are used to raise and lower individual warp threads, so that when the weft threads are woven through they create the beautiful patterns and images in the saris. These movements are controlled by computer, either modern ones or those using punch cards. The rear of the machine with the warp threads  Different coloured warp threads for creating a patterned border to the sari Working on the warp threads to tie them off in order to remove a finished sari from the loom Add caption A room of looms Punch cards for the sari designs