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Sonepur Mela

The Sonepur Mela is held on Kartik Poornima in Sonepur, Bihar, on the confluence of river Ganges and Gandak. I've been wanting to go for years, and had a small window of time as I wanted to escape from the monsoon in Tamil Nadu, and had to make my way to a Delhi wedding. I arrived at night with no where to sleep (what's new!!) but luckily was rescued by a local who gave me a room in his house. (Cleverly I was equipped with my trusty mosquito net, and bed sheet!). I slept a few hours after a night shoot, and at 5am joined the throngs of people, in the roped off walkways believing that I would, at some point reach the river. The festival was incredible, a sea of humanity, and elephants! bathing, worshiping, and plying each other with the vivid orange powder tikka to mark their auspicious bathe. See blog...

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The world’s poor spends a staggering US$ 40 billion annually for their energy needs. This equals 10 to 25% of their precarious monthly household budgets on dirty fuels like kerosene. Many remote villages in tribal India are still without electricity. Just £15.00 buys a solar light which will give a family more than enough good light on a daily basis when fully charged. Women can continue with their work, without the toxic hazard of burning kerosene and more importantly children can study into the evening without damaging their eye sight. Whenever I am given a charity donation my first thought is which village needs solar lights!

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