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Jan. 10th 2024 Mangalore India

Highlights of Manglore

First we drove to a private home (Belmont House) that was over 200 years old located in the middle of town.  From there we visited St. Aloysius Chapel on the campus of the St. Aloysius College.  The College has 12,000 students ranging from elementary school all the way up to Graduate school with even PhD’s in some subjects.  Our next stop was at the Gokarnath Temple which was originally funded by an individual who wanted make sure it was open to everyone.  Our last stop was at the Achal cashew processing plant.  The plant had about 500 workers made up mostly of women who earned from $5 to $6 a day and worked 6 days a week. Part of the process requires the cashew seed to be shelled similar to the cracking of a walnut and the inter-skin removed to have an edible nut.