Something for us, something for you.

Well that's just about the end of our month's work here and we are leaving with a new partner in ECCA, a better understanding of our schools and their needs, and with each school now understanding Nepal Schools Aid's focus and approach. We have had numerous meetings with Head Teachers, Staff, Management Committees, mostly amiable, sometimes "inter-planetary"!
Our next visit will be in April 2010, hopefully with some UK teachers running some skills workshops over several days. In anticipation of these visits we are leaving each school with some specific improvement objectives we would like them to work on. All are action based rather than outcome based so they are all within the means of each school provided they motivate themselves, which is quite a problem in Nepal anyway.
Firstly each school has two common objectives, first to develop a working relationship with ECCA as a means to influence their local communities to support and contribute to any improvement plans, and second to create a Nature Club within the school as part of the Water, Hygiene & Sanitation curriculum.In addition each school has some objectives specific to that school such as Bal Bigyan and Bal Kalyan creating a UK studies syllabus and space for a library which we will fund. If anyone would like to know more details then please email us.
In summary the schools know that we are now entering a phase of self development where we expect to see signs of self improvement as a condition of continuing and growing support from ourselves.