The last school

Kesh Chandra school in central Kathmandu was visited today, its the smallest school we support with around 100 pupils. As usual they are the children of migrant or itinerant workers so are extremely isolated from the permanent community.
They are housed in a community group owned building connected to a temple area and the owners want them out. Mind you, they have been trying for 20 years and not succeeded. However they have made life extremely uncomfortable for the school with a refusal to allow the connection of running water to the site or the building of a toilet.
Their needs apart from this are virtually identical to the three other schools we have visited and a few patterns are emerging. I will spend a few days thinking about all the data we have collected and create a summary report posted here for those who are interested.
So, at 1pm today, temperature 89 degrees, Champa and I ended a fairly intense three days of questions, questions, questions. I'm not sure of the UK equivalent but we have basically carried out an assessment on the management and teaching of four schools plus held a lengthy meeting with people connected to the Nepal Ministry of Education. To celebrate we dragged ourselves off to the renowned Fire & Ice restaurant for pizza and ice cream. The festival of Tihar starts tomorrow so it's a few days of relaxing and family socialising before we start again. Tomorrow it's barbecue night at Dwarika's to thank our family for all their organising of Sharon's wedding.