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The Road to Quality Education in Mondo Schools

Ever since Mondo started supporting schools in the Darjeeling District of North East India we have been training teachers in ways to improve their interaction with the children and make their teaching more effective. In the last few weeks we have taken a further initiative to help the schools on the road to continuous self improvement. Ruth Worswick, a trustee of Mondo Foundation and herself a headteacher of a primary school in Hampshire, UK, has been conducting workshops for heads and senior...

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Inspiring Teachers In India

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...

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A Role Model For Young Girls in NE India

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....

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Mondo 10th Anniversary

The Foundation was launched in November 2004 and it seems difficult to believe that ten years have sped by as quickly as they have. Just two months after the launch, the tsunami woke us up with a start and we were able to move quickly to help children in badly affected Sri Lankan communities recover their lives. From that dramatic start we have gone on to focus on our core activities of Education and Livelihoods.  It’s not easy to know exactly...

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New Rise Academy Extension

We are delighted to announce the opening of the Adam Coombs Advanced Studies Centre at New Rise Academy in Kashyem, India that was celebrated in the presence of Jennifer Coombs and her son, Jack, along with other members of their family. The Centre was funded by the Coombs family as a memorial to their son, Adam, who tragically died in India in 2010.  Adam had been a volunteer at New Rise and had loved his experience of teaching the children in...

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