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Ruth, one of our trustees, visited our projects in Kalimpong with the aim of working with the local teachers to help improve standards of education and engagement. Here, Ruth tells us about her trips around the local schools. If you’ve missed it, catch up on Part 1 of her blog here! The next 2 nights are spent in Santa’s home with his wife and young daughter. The village hasn’t long had electricity and is peaceful and calm. We learn...
2016 has been a big year for us: we’ve continued to support our flagship projects, grown as a charity and have grand plans for the coming year. Before we head into 2017, we wanted to reflect on our progress, none of which would have been possible without your generous support. Nepal In 2015, we dealt with the immediate effects of the devastating earthquake, providing emergency aid and then building temporary learning centres to ensure children...
Ruth, one of our trustees, visited our projects in Kalimpong with the aim of working with the local teachers to help improve standards of education and engagement. Here, Ruth describes the start of her visit to the region. Arriving at Bagdogra in the humid, blasting heat, it is so lovely to be met by Sudhir and his driver. They look after us from the start and make sure we are comfy. Bagdogra is noisy and crowded and we make slow progress,...
Louisa Ingham, a recent volunteer at our projects in Nepal, talks us through her exciting adventure in the Helambu valley. At dawn on Wednesday 5th October Chiring, Mohan and I set off on motorbikes to visit Shree Pating Basic School in the Helambu province to check on the progress of the new school being built there, as well as to meet with the village committee to inform them of the amounts spent on the building work so far. As HELP’s Operations...
Jayanti, who recently volunteered at Lovebuds School near Kalimpong, talks about her contributions to the school. If you’ve missed it, catch up on Part 1 and Part 2 of her story. One of my aims was to see if I could help them improve their writing skills and so I set up a class where they produced essays on an outing to the Science Park. This introduced them to the idea of structuring their stories with a...
Read about Jayanti’s impressions of teaching as a volunteer at Lovebuds School near Kalimpong. If you’ve missed it, catch up on Part 1 of her story. What struck me against this modest backdrop was the wonderful spirit of the children – they brimmed with vitality and enthusiasm for learning and were so rewardingly responsive. This along with the courtesy and good manners they showed made teaching them hugely pleasurable and more than made up for the lack of any...
Jayanti, who recently volunteered at Lovebuds School near Kalimpong, tells us about her time teaching at the school and her exciting experiences as a volunteer. Here, she describes getting to know Lovebuds school. What can I say about my time in Munsong teaching at Lovebuds Nursery School except that it has been an absolute pleasure to volunteer there as an English language teacher. The village, evoking a veritable Shangri-La hidden away in the hillside an hour’s drive by shared taxi outside...
Emma and Patrick, two medical professionals, recently joined our country manager, Jimmy Lama, on a trek through the Helambu region in which MondoChallenge Foundation and the Helambu Education and Livelihoods Partnership are working to re-build schools following the earthquakes and enhance education. If you’ve missed it, catch up on Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of their story. Ichowk was the largest village we had visited, and we were glad to arrive at the...
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...
Two medical professionals recently trekked through Helambu, seeing the work our local team are doing first hand in a series of walks through the valley. If you’ve missed it, catch up on Part 1 and Part 2 of their story. Dabchung to Tartong This walk was thankfully less strenuous and mercifully less sunny than the day before. We wove around the beautiful hills, frequently crossing cooling streams and namaste-ing our way through sleepy villages! We saw the school...
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