A personal message to all our supporters

In one weeks time Nepal Schools Aid will begin it's most ambitious programme of work in Kathmandu. Many of you will already know about it, the "Teacher Development Programme" in which we, together with a group of four teachers from Haverigg Primary School in Cumbria, UK will run a series of teaching skills and management courses. This would be ambitious enough if we were doing it only for the teachers from our five schools in Kathmandu, but we're not. We have invited delegates from a Nepali organisation which supports 400 schools and even more delegates from Nepal's Ministry of Education.
Why would we do this you might ask, putting ourselves under extra pressure? Well firstly we are more than happy to spread our "capability message" as wide as possible to try and influence the masses of aid which is spent on maintaining dependence on the donor rather than creating a state of independence. But secondly we are being selfish in trying to influence corporate Kathmandu to back our approach financially so that future groups of UK teachers will visit Nepal to spread their skills without having to pay for it themselves!
So, on to our message to all our supporters in the UK, from the company that funds almost 50% of our work to the child at the primary school who sold a few cakes or put a few pennies in a pot:

THANK YOU from all of us at Nepal Schools Aid and on behalf of the 700 disadvantaged children who within a week or so will be getting lessons from better equipped teachers.