Tuesday, July 18, 2006


Alphine Amma Kasipillai (45) sells paalaipazham in Murugandi, North of Sri Lanka. Paalaipazham season has just begun. She says that she has eight children and her husband is separated. She earns Rupees three hundred per day. She walks daily from her house to Murugandi Pillaiyar temple area to sell paalaipazham.