Bollywood comes to Haverigg!

Well, not exactly Bollywood but the music was from Slumdog Millionaire! The 30 min video of Sharon & Michael's wedding in Kathmandu went down a storm on the last day of term at Haverigg school with a great deal of interest from the children if their questions were anything to go by. "Why do they wear sarees, why do they wear red at a wedding in Nepal, what is the red scarf for, why did they walk around the temple three times, why was the bell ringing .........."

All good questions and it has prompted us to take our video camera on our next visit annd to film more everyday life in Kathmandu which can be arranged into small educational clips.

Sramik Links With St James School

Our aborted trip to Nepal recently still gave us a chance to deliver a package of letters and cards to Sramik School and they have already responded to St James via the internet with a scanned selection of children's drawings. 

Hopefully this will promote regular contact between specific children as well as large parcels on an occasional basis.

 

"Water" Training Ends

Reports from Kathmandu indicate a highly successful programme for all participants. Key points apart from the obvious content learning appear to have been the application methodologies learned and the motivation from a human values based approach. Teachers have now returned to their schools to begin implementation and we will report on this in a few weeks.

Good News From Nepal!

At last some good news from Nepal  received via my nephew Anuj in Kathmandu; the power cuts, called load shedding in Kathmandu, have been reduced by 50%.
So, as of now the power cuts are ONLY 8 hours per day!!