Another Visit on 23rd January 2011
Playing with Prince and Gulafsa

Usha invited a small group of yoga students to join her on one of her regular visits to the women's section of the Haridwar prison.

Today she will be paying the school fees till the end of the session, which allows the children to leave the prison each day and attend a school nearby.

For this visit the students at the Patanjala Yoga Kendra collected together several bags of cookies, soap, incense, ghee, some coloring books and games for the children and their mothers. They received these small gifts graciously and thanked us in their mixed dialects.

Usha tells us that Prince is now more than 5 years old and will have to leave his mother and go to an orphanage in March. We all feel heartbroken for him.

Our thanks to Usha Devi and to Mr. Pavan Kothari, the deputy jailer, for allowing us to visit the women and children of the Haridwar prison today.

Dianne Brooks