Saathi Indian restaurant
28 Priestpopple
Hexham
01434 603509
for supporting Nepal Schools Aid. The curry night was a great success and everyone had a fun evening. The food and company were great. Their support is greatly appreciated.
Tuesday, 6 September 2011
What do the Cotswolds and the Himalayas have in common?
The answer is probably not much but we spent a great weekend hiking on the Cotswold escarpments, joined by John's friend Andy. We're getting there.......
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Back from Kathmandu
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
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
London to Brighton Cycle Ride 19 June 2011
To sponsor the Riders, visit Nepal Schools Aid Riders .
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Hiking in Wales
On a glorious weekend in April we went hiking for 3 days in the Brecon beacons to try out our boots and kit (not to say our bodies and mind!). The weather was fantastic and after a first day doing the famour waterfalls route we ventured up to Pen y Fan the highest peak in South Wales (Joanna said the view would be amazing if the hills weren't in the way!). Finally, we went down to the South Wales coast for a short hike over the cliffs. All in all about 24 miles on hilly and rough terrain - the kits and bodies passed with flying colours and we all managed to stay sane and even tempered!! Nepal here we come.Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Youth Concert raises over £800
On Saturday 19 March Joanna and Kate together with their school friends and young people from the village ran a Youth Concert. We had over 20 performances to a packed village hall holding over 100 people who were all impressed and entertained. As well as entry tickets, they sold refreshments and cakes they'd made as well as holding a charity auction. A grand total of £800 was raised and they even got mentioned in the local Mid Sussex Times - as Joanna said "I didnt think it would go as well as it did!"
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| Joanna and Kate drawing the raffle! |
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| The Woodard Singers - Goodnight Sweethart |
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
It's Teacher Training Time!
Although our trek is focused on helping four of our schools to fully computerise NSA forges ahead with it's revolutionary approach in Nepal to teacher training. A team of 5 UK teachers have been designing and preparing an 8 day programme to be delivered in April and all is now complete and being printed in Kathmandu.
A total of 40 delegates from our 6 schools and the Ministry of Education will attend before our Nepalese Tutors cascade the training to a further 80 teachers in Kathmandu.
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