Chil­dren of the Cou­va Chil­dren's Home and Cri­sis Nurs­ery and their adult chap­er­ones wit­nessed his­to­ry come alive on Oc­to­ber 13 when they were treat­ed to a tour of the Ma­ha Sab­ha In­di­an Caribbean Mu­se­um, Wa­ter­loo. Host­ed by blink|bmo­bile, the tour was the first for the young­sters.

The mu­se­um fea­tures au­then­tic ar­ti­facts dat­ing as far back as the ear­ly 1900's. The mu­se­um opened its doors to the pub­lic in 2006 with the sup­port of TSTT and oth­er spon­sors. The chil­dren got the op­por­tu­ni­ty to view tra­di­tion­al In­di­an jew­el­ry, pieces of cloth­ing, an­cient pho­tographs-some over 100 years old, as well as a col­lec­tion of Hin­du and oth­er texts.

They al­so viewed East In­di­an ar­ti­facts and agri­cul­tur­al ob­jects such as a dhe­ki (used for pound­ing co­coa and cof­fee beans as well as corn and rice grains), rare mu­si­cal in­stru­ments like the saran­gi (In­di­an vi­o­lin) and tabla (a pair of East In­di­an drums). Fol­low­ing the tour, the chil­dren were treat­ed to some tra­di­tion­al In­di­an del­i­ca­cies cour­tesy of the mu­se­um.