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The final part of our CEO’s trip to Nepal saw him attend teaching training sessions organised to help schools improve the quality of their education offering. Catch up on the story so far if you’ve missed Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. or Part 4. The Helambu visit happened to coincide with a teacher-training day Jimmy had organised and I was invited to address the group. The session involved all the 20 teachers we are funding. I...
Our CEO’s visit continued with the opening of our first new school since the earthquake. Catch up on the story so far if you’ve missed Part 1, Part 2 or Part 3. The visit in Helambu ended on a high and successful note as we convened with the Loughborough University students to open Birkharka school’s first three classrooms. Built in traditional stone, but with reinforced steel added to the walls, plus additional buttresses, the classrooms were much praised...
Our CEO continued his trip to Nepal, this time taking in potential sites for new rebuilding projects. Catch up on the story so far if you’ve missed Part 1 or Part 2. Two substantial schools were the target of our next visits. The first, at Gufa, took us 2,600 metres up into the highest of the foothills, where normally we would have seen Yangrima Mountain off in the midst of Langtang to the north. Sadly the visibility was poor,...
Our CEO continued his visit to Nepal where he saw first hand the work being done by our local teams to help rebuild schools. Catch up on the story so far if you’ve missed Part 1. As the day wore on we gained height on our way to Tartong. Here the school had been totally destroyed and the land where it stood, so badly crevassed that the villagers had no option but to move the school to a different...
Read about our CEO’s recent visit to Nepal where he saw first hand the devastation caused by the earthquake in April 2015 but also the hope that Mondo’s projects are bringing to the survivors. The journey from Kathmandu over the foothills to the Helambu valley offers splendid vistas of the Langtang range. But on this, our first visit since the earthquake, it was not the views that attracted our attention but the swathes of decimated houses that bordered the road. The...
A few weeks ago we ran a set of training workshops for head teachers and teachers of the Mondo Foundation-sponsored schools in Darjeeling District, West Bengal India. These teacher workshops are a very important part of our objective to improve the standards of teaching in the region. Following on from the training workshops held in autumn 2015, these sessions were devised and run by Nico Bashford, Mondo’s experienced trainer who is of UK origin and previously worked at the British Council...
We asked, Pranita, a headteacher at Sacred Heart School in NE India to give us her take on her role in the community and the work she does with young girls. This is her story: I started my journey a decade ago and I must say that working as a headteacher at my school is the best thing that has happened to me. To begin with, my day starts at 4:00 am and I finish doing the household chores by 6 am....
Read the final blog from our CEO’s visit to Tanzania. If you’ve missed the earlier blogs, catch up on Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5. A day in Arusha to catch up. The most urgent task has been to interview another candidate for the Liaison Officer job, Rosemary, and I think we have found what we are looking for! I invited her to join us at the team meeting this morning,...
Our CEO continued his visit to Tanzania, moving finally to visit more grant and loan recipients in Pasua. If you’ve missed the earlier blogs, catch up on Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3 and Part 4. We set off early with Mama Glory to visit the Pasua region, where our first call was with Nia, a lady who is totally unique in the Mondo scheme in that she makes bricks! I first met her back in 2009...
Our CEO continued his visit to Tanzania, shifting his focus to our second wide area of operations, Moshi. If you’ve missed the earlier blogs, catch up on Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3. We left early from Arusha to start a two day visit to Moshi, our largest centre of grant recipients. First stop was Boma N’gombe where we embarked upon a two mile hike into the hinterland with our local manager, Mama Glory. Boma N’gombe is...
