December 2005 trip
This is a snapshot of the riverside where most of the kids come from. Depending on how relatively wealthy a family is, they might own and live in a boat which they moor alongside the river and take out to fish in. The boats range from very simple with barely a roof to comparably comfortable with even electricity linked up. Poorer families live in little shacks on the riverside, which often get flooded out or occasionally burnt. There's a more permanant settlement nearby, wooden huts which make up a slum, but the rental is too much for most of the families by the riverside, even sharing a single room with others, plus the loss of livelihood.
