At last, a little breathing space after a hectic April in Kathmandu running a teacher training conference and working around our seven schools. This was a “watershed” month for us with 40 teachers attending for 8 days with implementation plans being created in a number of crucial areas such as lesson planning and values based education. We have now started to tightly manage our schools with the concept of “climb the ladder of implementation to qualify for computers” being the basis of supervision, monitoring and communication. In fact the schools will be inspected in October to objectively assess who gets the computers! So, your donations are well focused and protected. We are currently getting final costings for the whole project and I will write this up as news when I have the figures.
From a trek viewpoint I had several meetings with the new owner of Sherpa Expeditions, the son of the previous owner, in which we thrashed out internal flight bookings, fixed costs, and which guide(s) I would have for the trek. The owner himself is leading it so I guess we got a good deal in the end.
One small disappointment was the sheer volume of festivals being held during our days in Kathmandu which will prevent Gary and John from doing any work either in the schools or with teachers in groups. Never mind, they'll just have to come back next April for our annual training programme!
Brian
NSA Chairman
