After many weeks of communication and negotiation we have agreed with ECCA in Kathmandu that 15 teachers from our five schools will be given the necessary one weeks training to deliver the new Water & Sanitation curriculum.For quite some time we seemed to be confronted with the classic Nepali bureaucracy where everything takes double the time, nobody knows who is responsible for what, and costs escalate in proportion to time delays!
Then out of the blue arrives Ram Maharjan from ECCA who has corresponded promptly, run meetings to plead our cause, talked to ECCA and UN-HABITAT partners and directors to finally get this work agreed and at an acceptable price of $1000. This looks a lot from our small budget, but when you look at the fact that we are getting 5 days training for 15 teachers ........ not bad!
The real issue though is the impact this will have on the needy children in our schools. We all understand about clean drinking water and the importance of personal hygiene, but these people live and work where there is NO running water to drink, wash etc., so the issues are many and critical.
With ECCA help we will run this programme in May and hopefully through it's implementation will begin to improve the health of 700 small children and the communities in which they live.
You can read more about the ECCA programme here
Then out of the blue arrives Ram Maharjan from ECCA who has corresponded promptly, run meetings to plead our cause, talked to ECCA and UN-HABITAT partners and directors to finally get this work agreed and at an acceptable price of $1000. This looks a lot from our small budget, but when you look at the fact that we are getting 5 days training for 15 teachers ........ not bad!
The real issue though is the impact this will have on the needy children in our schools. We all understand about clean drinking water and the importance of personal hygiene, but these people live and work where there is NO running water to drink, wash etc., so the issues are many and critical.
With ECCA help we will run this programme in May and hopefully through it's implementation will begin to improve the health of 700 small children and the communities in which they live.
You can read more about the ECCA programme here
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