Outdoor work site beside a white wire-mesh fence on concrete posts, with a bare-branched tree overhead. Several men in plain shirts and trousers dig and shovel red-brown earth into a shallow excavation. One man in a dark vest and another in a cap stand watching. Two large mounds of red soil lie behind them, and a small sapling grows at right beside a low concrete slab. - Nithyanandapedia

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Outdoor work site beside a white wire-mesh fence on concrete posts, with a bare-branched tree overhead. Several men in plain shirts and trousers dig and shovel red-brown earth into a shallow excavation. One man in a dark vest and another in a cap stand watching. Two large mounds of red soil lie behind them, and a small sapling grows at right beside a low concrete slab.

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February 23 2008

A photograph of volunteers doing manual earthwork at a construction site with red-brown soil heaps. A man in a pink-and-white striped shirt and grey trousers, with a name badge, digs with a long-handled spade and shovel. Beside him a man in a red hard hat bends to dig, while a man in a black vest with a chain stands behind, and a man in a red shirt and grey cap watches. On the right, a man in a turquoise shirt and blue turban stands looking on. Behind them is a white wire-mesh fence with concrete posts and a whitewashed wall, with a young sapling in the right background.

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