The students drape their comforters and clothes over anything and everything to dry out and air out in the sunshine. The students have to wash everything by hand since there are no washing or drying machines available to them (all of the teachers, however, are fortunate enough to at least have a washer).
The students don't have that many clothes; I would guess that most of them have about 3-5 different outfits. Because of the amount of work and time hand-washing requires and the fact that they don't own many clothes, the students go to great lengths to keep their clothes clean. They wipe their desk chairs off before they sit down, they never sit on the ground and many of them wear arm guards/sleeves which fit over the arms of their jackets to keep their sleeves clean. The student below is wearing sleeve guards over her jacket.
You can buy these sleeves in many of the local stores; they look like this:
The stores sell blocks of detergent to use for hand-washing which look like this:
And I thought doing the laundry with a washer and dryer was a pain! Laundry day takes on a whole new meaning and type of commitment here.
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