Chicken pox!

We had several of our little ones out today. It seems they've come down with chicken pox. Several of the hearing kids at the school have it, so I guess we are going to have a mini-epidemic. Probably for the next couple of weeks attendance is going to be down--maybe longer, since the incubation period is two weeks.

Frequent hand-washing is recommended to keep the virus from spreading. Well, our kids probably don't wash their hands twice a day! I know that sounds awful, but they are not taught to do so at home. At school, as at home, bathrooms often do not have any running water. We have to open a heavy cistern door in the floor, and pull water up with a bucket. Younger kids cannot do that. That's just one of the realities of living in a developing country.