India

Newsletter Summer 2023

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...

Scholastika (one of our most recent recipients) at her watermelon stall.

Newsletter March 2023

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...

Newsletter – September 2022

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...

Newsletter – June 2022

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,...

Newsletter – March 2022

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...

‘By rote’ to child-centred learning

By Mark Adams – Mondo Volunteer working for 9 months in the Mondo Schools Kalimpong & Darjeeling. Mark (right) with some of the teachers in Mondo schools. I arrived in India full of anticipation and excitement.  Embarking upon a seven-month stint as a volunteer with rural schools in the northern most part of West Bengal, I was keen and enthusiastic.  A practical, creative teacher, I wanted to find out what lessons I could learn and how I might be of assistance to...