We slept (kind of) on the train from Bangalore that night and arrived at 7:30am the next morning.  We showered, had breakfast, and then were picked up at 10:00am by members of the DHAN Foundation, a nonprofit organization located in Madurai that conducts training sessions and builds and distributes the bio-sand filters.

The DHAN Foundation personnel ended up providing us with a three day program that consisted of meetings, site visits, education and an evening of sight seeing.  What wonderful people.  We feel like we have made some new friends for life.  They brought us to two villages that are using the bio-sand filters and we were able to talk to the local people (with interpretation).  It was extremely helpful.  The local people are all so friendly and the young children followed us around in groups giggling every time I turned around and smiled or waved.  We were also able to see some other water projects the DHAN Foundation is involved in such as rain water harvesting (tanks and ponds that collect water when it rains for used in the drier times for agricultural irrigation).

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