At the moment, Elephant Thoughts personnel is working to move in a ‘travelling library’. This will be based at our school, but will travel to other schools in the area, delivering books for children who might not otherwise ever have access to them. This is part of a literacy program supported by Elephant Thoughts and means a terrific opportunity not only to the kids we are already educating through Centauri (thanks to your support), but hundreds of children in villages around Mirik. A small computer lab is also currently being installed. This will provide an opportunity for students and members of the local community to access technology they may never before have been able to use, and to develop skills to help them improve their lives in the future.
As you are all aware, we are already educating our first intake of students, in the borrowed classroom of a local school. What we have learned through this whole building process is that in the developing world, things rarely move as smoothly as we would hope, and the kinds of problems that can occur are always surprising! Until we can move our students into their new school we have one final hurdle to overcome. A farmer whose property is adjacent to the school has moved in a herd of pigs. The smell is overwhelming, and the results are less than healthy. Elephant Thoughts is negotiating with him to secure him land for his pigs away from our school. It’s a delicate issue, since this farmer donated the land our school stands on. Once an agreement can be reached, the pigs will be relocated and the students can move in. Certainly not an issue contractors would face here in Canada!
Thank you all again for your help with this project. We hope to update you all again soon.
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Julie & Craig
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