An update

There is complete lockdown in Bangladesh and India. All ours are asked to write: daily reports, diaries, stories, songs.

The corona situation is more unclear in Bangladesh than in India. Tiny movements outside your own home are possible, but no more. People are "stuck".

A Freedom of Expression organization based in Dhaka will contribute rice, lentils, cooking oil and the like to the one hundred poorest families in the singing work.

Two of our singing teachers are working on making a list of who needs it.

In Kolkata, they keep digital contact (Whatsapp) between local coordinator Binod in the big city and the oldest painting girls in the villages.

Also, they write texts about the condition, which they let each other read. Only neighbors can visit each other.

We want to keep the singing and painting work alive through the pandemic.