News From Nepal

Been here for about a week now, flew out on Sunday after Sharon's first wedding on Saturday. Since then we have had a hectic mixture of second wedding arrangements, attempted school visits and partnership meetings. Tried to take 5 visitors today to BalBigyan and Sramik schools but a general strike/road blockage and a teacher strike conspired against us. Last minute change to Kesh Chandra where there was no strike instead.
Posting up photos at the moment is virtually impossible due to power cuts, slow internet and dodgy keyboards. This has taken 40 mins.
Will try more tomorrow.
Family party tonight. Thanks for recent comments Nancy & Trevor, keep posting.

Nepal Visits

Across most of May a number of Trustees will be visiting and working at our schools in Kathmandu and THIS is the place to keep up to date. Keep checking the NewsBlog as we will be posting up news every other day or so and "events" will include:

• Sharon's wedding
• Selecting a new teacher for Bal Kalyan school
• Opening and running the new "Water & Sanitation in the Curriculum" course for 12 of the teachers in our schools
• Meeting with the Heads and Governors of each school
• Conducting a detailed fact-find on two schools
  
• Observing some specific lessons in each school
• Distributing letters and cards from the children of Haverigg and St Jame's schools
• Allocating our budget for the production and purchase of 22,000 exercise books, 1000 textbooks, 100 school bags

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Shamrock Traverse in Pictures-Easter 2009

Haverigg & St James' Tangible Support

For more than a year now these two Cumbrian schools have supported us with introducing their pupils to Nepal through the curriculum as well as twinning with Bal Bigyan and Sramik schools. Now, they have both made donations to us following fundraising efforts including Fair Trade sales, a coffee morning and a domino drive. From Haverigg School we received £241 and from StJames School £238 and in each case the children of the school decided how they would like their money to be spent. Sramik School will receive 1500 exercise books, 20 school bags and enough drinking water for 115 children for about 6 weeks. Bal Bigyan school will receive “half a teacher” for a year! Some of these decisions need a little more explanation, especially the drinking water and half a teacher and we will report on this during our Kathmandu visit in May.