This picture depicts four young children washing basins of clothes in the river.

From the picture, I can infer that these children are from not-so-developed country like India or Africa as they are still hand-washing clothes, besides they have dark skin colour. Since the children actually kept their hair rather short, I think the temperature of the country should be blistering.

Also I can see that the children are of young age. They are only about seven or eight years old. They have learnt to take care of household chores when they are still so little. It shows how independent the children are, actually having the life skill of survival, taking care of themselves. I am rather impressed with their ability at their age as most children in Singapore are so well taken care of that they do not even need to lift a finger to have their own room made neat, and of course washing of clothes are mostly done by the washing machine.

I the picture I can also see that among the children, not all are girls; the two that were not wearing any clothes are boys. This shows that the practice in that family or the village did not have any discrimination against the girls. The boys are made to do household chores too.

The children have to pay extra attention when washing the clothes in the river. The numerous rocks protruding from the river bed seems to be rough and they might get themselves hurts easily if they are not careful enough and fall.

This picture is most probably taken so as to let us understand more about the life of children in the less develop countries—their independent and tough life. It is a very different environment that the children in the picture live in compare to the children in Singapore. I feel that there is something that we should learn from them, the capacity of taking up hard work and diligently completing their task.