Cutting her nails
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Photo © Basil Rolandsen (http://bouvetmedia.com)
Yusnidar is fascinated, if a bit nervous, when her teacher Ainal Mardiah cuts her nails. It is a part of a project teaching school children personal hygiene, but in her as with her friends Husna and Rosmariati, I see a glimpse of the eternal feminine fascination with mails, hair, shoes and so on. The mother passing on the rites to her daughters…
The picture is taken 23 January 2009, at the Kuala Batee school in Pidie, Aceh (NAD), Indonesia. The training was a part of a Norwegian Red Cross water & sanitation project, initiated after the 2004 tsunami.