Tough routine

I know the picture is small, but can you see what this kid is carrying?

A plastic chair. He is going to school, and here all the children carry their own chair to go to school, because normally the school itself has no funds do buy chairs for all of them. Because of that, they bring it from home.

This other picture was taken in the same place as the cemetery is, they also have a school there. I talked to the teacher today, asking for permission to visit them next week. Sitting in his motorcycle, ready to go home, he seems happy with the possibility of my visit. The kids had left a minute ago, but they all come back when they see me, clearly happy to see someone new. I tell them I am gonna come back to see them, and they open a big bright smile. When I come back to the car, they are all shaking their little hands saying goodbye, and that happens all the way back with other kids we pass by. They get so happy when you say a simple "hi" that it gets impossible to stop doing it.

Attention, in the picture, to two things: the girl in the green shirt carrying two plastic containers and the three kids on the right side. The kids are pushing their friend on the weelchair, what I imagine it must be really hard to do in this sandy soil. The yellow containers the girl is carrying are for water, the comunity makes a long queue to get it, each person with one container.

This is Africa.