El Badayah

Today Mrs T and a posse of expat wives visited one of the charities they support, El Badayah a preschool in a very poor area of Cairo. The families here make do on little more than 30 english pounds a month - for the whole family. The wives, or Madames as Ahmed Da Driver calls them (accurately it so happens, a few of them are "Madames") help out, runs some games, crafts, play, sing and generally have a good time with the little Cairennes. Mrs T had to buy 40 pots of yoghurt as a snack on the way there (shop keeper obviously thought she had the nibbles) and they passed them out to the kids as a snack. Many of the grateful kids did not know what to do with such an alien thing as a yoghurt pot, a complete novelty. Goes to show things we take for granted as basic and everyday are complete luxuries out of reach to many of the worlds poor.