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Jambo, Namaste and Hello to ALL our Mondo supporters as we head into the Xmas and New Year celebrations! It has been an eventful and great first 6 months in post for our CEO, Matthew Band, who has settled in well and has enjoyed getting to know the Teams in Nepal, India and Tanzania and support them in their hard work and efforts. They are continuing to impact the lives of many vulnerable families through Education and Enterprise activities, as you...
A BIG hello to our Mondo supporters and thank you for keeping up to speed with our work in India, Nepal and Tanzania! Firstly, we would like to welcome our new CEO, Matthew Band and say a fond farewell to Anna Brian, who was at the Mondo helm and has now gone onto pastures new in the charity sector. We wish her every success and would like to thank her for the diligence, care and commitment she has shown throughout her...
Welcome to the first newsletter of 2023. Many thanks to all of you who donated to our RIBS school campaign last December and to the legacy fund for Anthony. I’ll be updating you on those projects as the year progresses. It was also lovely to meet up with Mondo friends and volunteers while Jimmy was visiting the UK in February – so many great memories to share! Tanzania International Women’s Day (8th March) is just around the...
Welcome to Mondo’s autumn newsletter. A few weeks ago HELP in Nepal celebrated their 12th anniversary since founding, looking back over their development from a small group of friends eager to support a few schools in Helambu region to the organisation they are today. It was a fantastic opportunity to reflect on how far both Mondo and HELP have come, thanks to all our loyal supporters! It has been a busy summer for all our projects… please read on to find...
Welcome to Mondo’s summer newsletter. There has been lots to celebrate in the last few months, with a third cohort of Saathi teachers ready to take to their classrooms, and new equipment for the blind unit in our partner school in Longido. Our first volunteers in almost three years are also soon to pack their bags to return to Nepal and we wish them well on their summer adventure. Tanzania- Longido school Mondo has been supporting the blind unit at Longido school,...
Welcome to our first 2022 newsletter! Here at Mondo we are all hoping that the new year will see less Covid disruption and we will have a chance expand our successful programmes and design new initiatives. We are very grateful for your ongoing support which has seen us through such a difficult few years! Tanzania Last autumn two groups of our business women in Masaranga and Olmiringaringa took the brave step to form Vicoba groups. A Vicoba group consists of 25-30 women, who...
As the new year starts, the spread of the Omicron variant is bringing challenges to our programmes, with vaccination rates far lower than hoped in all our project areas. However, we are working hard to continue our programmes and to make plans for a more normal year in 2022. Nepal Saathi teacher Gopi helping student with mask. Nepal is currently reporting a daily increase in Covid rates of 10,000 a day and total cases are at their highest since the start of the pandemic....
Welcome to our autumn newsletter. While conditions remain difficult in all our project areas with a surge in Covid cases over the summer in Tanzania, and further landslides and flooding in Nepal in August, our staff remain focused on ensuring long term projects can keep running, as well as providing emergency support. There is still a lot of good news! Our Tanzania farmers are harvesting a successful crop and our new cohort of Saathi teachers have started in their schools. ...
Improving Primary Education in rural Sindhupalchowk According to the Impact study, 2021 Saathi teachers have significantly improved their classrooms compared to the baseline data. Despite starting late in the first year and the disruption caused by Covid in the second year, Saathi teachers successfully worked on the language and numerical skills in the classrooms. Saathi teachers started working on norms setting, building classroom and school culture, gaining trust with students, existing teachers, and parents, creating engaging lessons and group work. This...
Thank you for taking the time to read our summer newsletter! Sadly, since I last wrote, the Covid situation in India and Nepal has worsened considerably, as I am sure you have heard, and Mondo supported schools in both countries are back in lockdown. We are trying to find the best way to respond to this situation while keeping our own staff safe. In India we are supporting our schools to survive this latest lockdown, again providing a hardship fund...
