A new partnership?

We have spent most of today with Yogendra Chitraker, Director ECCA, and one of his staff Sidhu visiting three schools they provide support to in Patan together with our own two schools also in Patan. Basically ECCA are a large Nepalese NGO who develop schools through helping them to network better within their own community and assisting them to set up nature and environment clubs and studies within the school.
Essentially we have much to gain by working together at no cost to each other. ECCA have 2000 "counsellors" employed around Nepal helping the poorest schools to achieve more through self motivation and we have realised today just how much we can work together without stepping on each others toes. Initially they will take Sramik and Bal Bigyan schools under their wing to help them maximise their potential withing their respective communities.
On our part we have access to a different network of professional teachers and volunteers from the UK and again we can work together to maximise efforts. For example a group of teachers from the UK could come to Nepal to run a skills programme attended by groups of their counsellors who in turn pass it on across the whole of Nepal!
More next week, its back to videoing tomorrow.