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There’s not much history of education in the area where we built our school, that’s why we built it there after all. But it means that there is also a shortage of people educated enough to be teachers; Ash and I found ourselves with a bit of a chicken and egg situation on our hands.

Something that is important to us at Educate for Life is building local capacity at all opportunities, it makes sense on so many levels that it just seems the most obvious thing to do. If we employ a local teacher, say from Bakhel, the village where our school is built, then first up they speak the local language, which is obviously pretty useful. Another quite obvious point is that they also understand the local customs and cultures, which can vary as much as the language does in India and are important to get right. Then there is the fact that we want our schools to compliment and be woven into the societies where we build them, and there is no better way than doing that than with everyone being local.

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