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How small charities can work together to create greater impact – Mondo CEO, Stephen Carrick-Davies, talks about how collaboration can bring great dividends. Theodore Roosevelt got it right when he said, “Comparison is the thief of joy.” How many times in our social and professional lives do we get pulled down into the corrosive spiral of comparison? It’s not just young people who can feel drained by the ‘Boast by Post’ social media culture; it’s permeating into our education system and...
It’s easy for those of us in senior leadership to look back nostalgically on our formative experiences of starting work. Whether that was in the 1960s when politicians told us we “never had it so good,” the 1970s when it was still possible to go straight from school at 16 into the work place, or the 1980s when tertiary education was still free. Despite the economic booms and busts we believed life would generally get better and it was normal...
On Saturday, 16 September we took part in the ‘Walk For Nepal’, alongside around 70 other volunteers from three other NGO’s doing incredibly important work in Nepal. We banded together, our Mondo team, to fundraise for the valuable work we do supporting girls education projects and to show solidarity with all the incredible work done by Bridges Nepal, Child Rescue Nepal, Many Ogilvy Hands and International Needs UK. The day kick-started early at London Bridge station, whilst we...
Summer is the time where we award our next round of scholarships for students from rural locations in Nepal. Read about how this year’s cohort have been selected! Since 2010, Helambu Education and Livelihood Partnership (HELP), Mondo’s partner in Nepal has been supporting deserving, needy students from government schools located at remote villages in Helambu region who pass their secondary school exams to attend the equivalent of sixth form college – which, unlike the schooling to this point, is not free in...
Stephen’s article was first published in the Huffington Post on 18 July 2017. The London Family Planning Summit held in London last week was heralded a major success. At least $2.5 billion was committed for reproductive health services. New partners and countries signed up to the 2020 targets and the fundamental rights of women and girls was once again justly championed to a world which seems increasingly macho and cruel. At the same time, four and a half thousand miles away...
Join one of our trustees, Hirsh, as he journeys through the Helambu Valley to visit our school construction projects. We have been working since the earthquakes in 2015 to re-build and re-construct 15 schools in the Valley. Catch up on Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3! Up early and indeed the views are fabulous. I love to see the sun rise and touch first the tops of the mountains before gradually lighting up the whole landscape. Today is International Women’s...
Join one of our trustees, Hirsh, as he journeys through the Helambu Valley to visit our school construction projects. We have been working since the earthquakes in 2015 to re-build and re-construct 15 schools in the Valley. Catch up on Part 1 and Part 2! Today is our second leg of the trip and we are to visit just two schools neither of which I have ever been to before and couldn’t be much more different from each other. I...
Join one of our trustees, Hirsh, as he journeys through the Helambu Valley to visit our school construction projects. We have been working since the earthquakes in 2015 to re-build and re-construct 15 schools in the Valley. If you missed Part 1, catch up here! Today I am visiting three schools on the first leg of a three day visit to Helambu. First we are going to Tartong which involves the usual rough journey to Melamch Bazaar followed by an even...
Join one of our trustees, Hirsh, as he journeys through the Helambu Valley to visit our school construction projects. We have been working since the earthquakes in 2015 to re-build and re-construct 15 schools in the Valley. Up really early in order to be picked up by jeep outside entrance to the Boudha stupa – pity jeep doesn’t arrive until 50 minutes after planned start! Already within is Tom Wagner, American, specialist and advocate for greenhouses and passive solar buildings –...
Follow the visit of one of our trustees, Hirsh, to Nepal as he works to introduce our Quality Education Project to schools in Nepal. He also took some time to visit India to follow-up on work done last year on the India Quality Education Improvement Project by another of our trustees, Ruth. If you’ve missed it, catch up on Part 1 of his blog here! Since I arrived in Nepal last week I have visited lots of schools, 11...
